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University of Texas at Austin

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Weitzman and Turcios-Villalta

With this award, Weitzman will strengthen her ability to effectively mentor junior researchers of color, expand her instructional toolkit to better support student writing goals, and create routines to support timely responses to student inquiries and requests.
Abigail Weitzman
University Of Texas At Austin
2024 – 2026
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 Stein and Gomez Alvarado

With this award, Stein will advocate for systemic change at the department, college, and university levels to remove barriers related to financial challenges.
Gabriela Stein
University Of Texas At Austin
2023 – 2025
$60,000
Grant

Understanding How U.S. Immigrant and Immigration Policies Affect Latino Adolescents’ School Lives

How do state immigrant laws and federal immigration enforcement activities shape Latino adolescents’ educational experiences and outcomes?
Abigail Weitzman
University Of Texas At Austin
2022 – 2027
$349,730
Grant

Administrative Burdens in Free-College (Promise) Programs and Postsecondary Outcomes for Racially Minoritized Students

Do eligibility criteria and application processes in free-college programs disproportionately affect racial or ethnic minorities?
Denisa Gandara
University Of Texas At Austin
2021 – 2026
$350,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Yeager and Dobson

Yeager will use this award to continue his journey of learning and growing with respect to inequality, privilege, and positionality, and to learn how to move toward more institutional change in his department and college.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2021 – 2023
$110,000
Grant

Are Racial Equity Policies an Effective Lever to Reduce Educational Inequality for Black Students?

How can policymakers, school district leaders, and school leaders develop and implement racial equity policies that reduce inequalities for Black students?
Terrance Green
University Of Texas At Austin
2020 – 2025
$350,000
Grant

R3: Stories and Numbers: Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Youth in Texas

Russell, Equality Texas, and the Texas Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network will collaborate to bring research to bear on advocacy efforts to promote safer and more supportive schools for LGBTQ youth in Texas.
Stephen Russell
University Of Texas At Austin
2018 – 2019
$99,806
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2017 Yeager and Netter

Yeager aims to reorganize his lab to allow more time for mentoring and to learn more about mentoring across difference from faculty leaders of campus diversity initiatives at University of Texas at Austin.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2017 – 2019
$59,999
Grant

Does a Successful RCT Yield Successful Policy? Class Size Reduction in Tennessee After Project STAR

Does the use of research on small class sizes lead to successful evidence-based policy and improved student outcomes?
Paul von Hippel
University Of Texas At Austin
2016 – 2017
$25,000
Grant

How Black Youth Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge Social Inequalities on PWI Campuses

How do Black college students at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) seek to reduce campus inequalities?
Richard Reddick
University Of Texas At Austin
2015 – 2017
$25,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2015 Benner and Minor

As an assistant professor, Benner has mentored 25 undergraduate and graduate students, the majority of whom are from traditionally under-represented groups.
Aprile Benner
University Of Texas At Austin
2015 – 2017
$85,000
Grant

Understanding For Whom and Under What Conditions Growth Mindset Interventions Reduce Educational Inequalities: A Nationally-Representative Experiment

Do interventions that promote the idea that intelligence is developed, not fixed, reduce inequalities in math achievement?
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2015 – 2019
$580,478
Grant

Toward a Sociological, Contextual Perspective on Psychological Interventions

How and to what extent do the effects of social-psychological interventions vary across different settings?
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2014 – 2020
$350,000
Grant

Adolescents and the Social Contexts of American Schools

How does the social and academic climate of schools influence adolescents’ development and well-being?
Aprile Benner
University Of Texas At Austin
2013 – 2020
$350,000
Grant

How Big Are Summer Learning Gaps? Using Seasonal Comparisons to Understand Whether Schools or Other Settings Are the Primary Source of Test-Score Inequality

In this descriptive study, von Hippel and Downey want to understand whether racial and economic achievement gaps grow more when school is in session or over the summer.
Paul von Hippel
University Of Texas At Austin
2013 – 2015
$299,671
Grant

The Motivational and Learning Benefits of Autonomy-Supportive Classroom Practices

Do classrooms that support students’ feelings of autonomy improve student motivation, attitudes, and behaviors?
Erika Patall
University Of Texas At Austin
2012 – 2015
$492,692
Grant

Using Research to Improve Children’s Lives: A Festschrift in Honor of Aletha C. Huston

Funds were given for a festschrift for Aletha C. Huston titled, “Societal Contexts of Development: Using Research to Improve Children’s Lives.”
Elizabeth Gershoff
University Of Texas At Austin
2010 – 2011
$5,000
Grant

Early Social Settings and Pathways to Economic Opportunity in Uncertain Times

How do students’ changing relationships with parents, teachers, and peers influence their math/science achievement and course taking? How do these influences shift over time and within contexts defined by their level of economic disadvantage, race/ethnicity, and immigration status?
Robert Crosnoe
University Of Texas At Austin
2010 – 2014
$322,315
Grant

Adolescent Development and the Social Organization of Schools Pilot Study

To support a pilot study aimed at informing a larger proposed National Institute of Child Health & Human Development project by collecting middle and high school yearbooks from schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).
Chandra Muller
University Of Texas At Austin
2005 – 2006
$10,856
Grant

Education as a Developmental Phenomenon

How do students’ changing relationships with parents, teachers, and peers influence their math/science achievement and course taking? How do these influences shift over time and within contexts defined by their level of economic disadvantage, race/ethnicity, and immigration status?
Robert Crosnoe
University Of Texas At Austin
2004 – 2009
$320,000

People

Grantee

Richard Reddick

Richard Reddick is a PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Richard Reddick
Grantee

Gabriela Stein

Gabriela Stein is a PI on 2 grants to University of Texas at Austin and is mentioned in 1 news article.
Gabriela Stein
Grantee

Erika Patall

Erika Patall is Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in the determinants and development of motivation and the relationship between motivation and academic achievement and underachievement.
Erika Patall
Grantee

Denisa Gandara

Denisa Gandara is a PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin and a co-PI on 1 grant to Pennsylvania State University; an author on 1 blog post; and is mentioned in 1 news article.
Denisa Gandara
Grantee

Abigail Weitzman

Abigail Weitzman is a PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin and is mentioned in 1 news article.
Abigail Weitzman
Grantee

David Yeager

David Yeager is a PI on 4 grants to University of Texas at Austin; an author on 1 publication; and is mentioned in 1 blog post.
David Yeager
Grantee

Terrance Green

Terrance Green is a PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin and is mentioned in 1 news article.
Terrance Green
Grantee

Stephen Russell

Stephen Russell is a PI on 2 grants to University of Texas at Austin.
Stephen Russell
Grantee

Julie Maslowsky

Julie Maslowsky is a PI on 1 grant to University Of Illinois.
Julie Maslowsky
Grantee

Paul von Hippel

Paul von Hippel is a PI on 2 grants to University of Texas at Austin.
Paul von Hippel
Grantee

Veronica Jones

Veronica Jones is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Veronica Jones
Grantee

Robert Crosnoe

Robert Crosnoe is a PI on 2 grants and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Crosnoe
Grantee

Chandra Muller

Chandra Muller is a PI on 1 grant and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Chandra Muller
Grantee

Aprile Benner

Aprile Benner is a PI on 2 grants to University of Texas at Austin.
Aprile Benner
Grantee

Liliana Garces

Liliana Garces is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.
Liliana Garces
Grantee

Aletha Huston

Aletha Huston is a co-PI on 1 grant to Society for Research in Child Development.
Aletha Huston
Grantee

Elizabeth Gershoff

Elizabeth Gershoff is a PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin and a co-PI on 1 grant to Society for Research in Child Development.
Elizabeth Gershoff
Grantee

Doug Downey

Doug Downey is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Doug Downey
Grantee

Rashmita Mistry

Rashmita Mistry is a PI on 1 grant to University of California, Los Angeles and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin and is an author on 1 publication.
Rashmita Mistry
Grantee

Tama Leventhal

Tama Leventhal is a PI on 1 grant and a co-PI on 1 grant to Boston College and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Tama Leventhal
Grantee

Danielle Crosby

Danielle Crosby is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Danielle Crosby
Grantee

Kathleen McCartney

Kathleen McCartney is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Kathleen McCartney
Grantee

Margaret Burchinal

Margaret Burchinal is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Margaret Burchinal
Grantee

Jacquelynne Eccles

Jacquelynne Eccles is a PI on 1 grant to University of Michigan and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin.
Jacquelynne Eccles

Articles & More

News
  •  May 1, 2020

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within ...
Boston University School of Public Health
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Brown University
,
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
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University of Chicago
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and University of Texas at Austin
Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program
Digest, Issue 4: Winter 2018/19

Research on reducing inequality: Why programs and practices matter, even in an unequal society

Ultimately, with an eye toward the root of the challenge, approaches to reducing inequality at the branch can lead to change in the long run.
David Yeager
Research on reducing inequality: Why programs and practices matter, even in an unequal society

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