Research Grant Reports

Faculty Grants

Jenni Buckley, Mechanical Engineering 

"How Granular Is the Problem? A Discipline-Specific Focus Group Study of Factors Affecting Underrepresentation in Engineering Undergraduate Programs"

Ryan Beveridge and Stevie Grassetti, Psychological & Brain Sciences

"Inaugural Conference Focused on Engaging Diverse Students in Clinical Science Graduate Studies at UD: A pilot"

Elizabeth Soslau, Education 

"Re-thinking the student teaching curriculum: Noting and addressing bias in the classroom"

Faculty Grants

Lindsay Naylor, "Food Geographies and Food Justice: Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in the Newark Food System"

Lynnette Young Overby, Theatre

"Arts for Social Change: Communicating Issues of Oppression, Resilience and Liberation"

April Veness, Geography

"The Importance of Place: a pilot project comparing UD students' experiences on the Wilmington, Dover, Georgetown and Newark Campuses"

Graduate Student Grants

Joseph Pritchett, doctoral candidate, School of Education "Supporting Religious Diversity and Interfaith Cooperation at the University of Delaware"

Faculty Grants

Gretchen Bauer, Awkward Conversations: Race and Race Relations at UD and Beyond

Lindsay Hoffman, National Agenda: Race in America

Graduate Student Grants

Lei Chen, Thinking Critically on UD Campus: A Case Study of Chinese College Students' and UD Faculty's Conceptualization and Experiences with Critical Thinking

Kelly Duran-Jordan, Rachel Amey, Chad Forbes, The Impact of Interleukin 1 Beta Polymorphisms on Vulnerability to Threat Effects and Subsequent Health

Andrew Garcia, Fostering Interest in STEM and Higher Education for Students of Underrepresented Backgrounds

Marisa Kofke, Undergraduate Student Perspectives of Disability: Implications for Postsecondary Pedagogy

Faculty Grants

Pier Gabrielle Foreman, “Discovering Delaware’s Delegates: Brandywine Valley and the Colored Convention Movement,” a Public Symposium

Rosalie Rolon Dow, Rebecca Covarrubias, Carla Guerron Montero, Campus Goals of Diversity and Equity at the University of Delaware: Latino/a Student Perspectives

Deborah Bieler, Expanding the Impacts of English Teacher Candidates’ Urban SAT Course

Graduate Student Grants

Emily Bonistall, Call for International Graduate Student Essays

Jennifer Ferris, African American History: Uncovered, Transformed, and Disseminated

Michael Dickinson, Social Rebirth: The Enslaved Black Experience in the Urban British Atlantic, 1680-1800

Faith Okpotor, Samantha Kelley,  Gender Code Switching and Political Decision Making

Christopher Bouton, Disrupting Slavery: Physical Confrontations in the Antebellum South

Faculty Grants

Deb Bieler, Impacts of English Teacher Candidates’ Urban SAT Course

Barret Michalec, The Path Less Taken: Understanding the Experience of Black Pre-Medical Students

Graduate Student Grants

La Tanya Autry, The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America

Carrie Barnum, SACNAS Two-Step Mentoring Program Towards Diversity in STEM Fields

Justin De Leon, "Mapping the Margins” Documentary Film and Discussion Series

Ashley Kennedy and William Cissel, Enabling Natural History Outreach to Underserved Audiences

Scholarship that drives diversity practice