University of Maryland College Park

This grant will support three cohorts of early-career scholars from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the country to attend the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute (IQRMI). The IQRMI is a week-long training program for early-career faculty launched in 2015. It aims to ...

With this award, Rodriguez will share what she learns about mentoring with her department chair and dean and host a brown bag lunch series to share research and key learning about mentoring with other faculty and graduate students.

Rodriguez will explore how school districts and school personnel can facilitate the educational success and social inclusion of recently arrived Central American immigrant students.

Do school-based health services and screening mandates improve academic and socio-behavioral outcomes among low-income youth?

Maton is producing a book, Influencing Social Policy: Applied Psychology Serving the Public Interest. He will review the literature on the use of research and interview influential researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to offer lessons for researchers seeking to influence policy. ...

How do intergenerational relationships shape and support pathways to successful adult outcomes for disadvantaged young men?

To support a symposium designed to stimulate interdisciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences on issues concerning the well-being of children.

Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?