The purpose of the Catalyst Grant program is to increase research collaborations among faculty and staff in the College of Education departments and those located at the Friday Institute. A primary objective of this program is to “seed” collaborative research that will lead to further research and support from external granting agencies.
2020-2021 Grant Winners
Trauma Informed Practice Support (TIPS) in Schools and Communities: Collaboration Between Education and Social Work
Angela Wiseman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literacy Education (College of Education); Brittany Miller, Research Associate (Friday Institute); and Qiana Cryer-Coupet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Work (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Developing a Framework for Disciplinary, Equity-Oriented Use of Informational Text in Middle School English Language Arts
Chandra Alston, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (College of Education), and Sarah Bausell, Ph.D., Research Associate (Friday Institute)
Examining Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Amidst Unprecedented Times
Callie Edwards, Ph.D., Research Associate (Friday Institute), and Jemilia S. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Strategic Initiatives & External Relations (College of Education Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research)
2019-2020 Grant Winners
Multimodal AI Literacy: Supporting the Learning of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through Multimodal Narrative Creation
Shiyan Jiang, Ph.D., and Bita Akram (Friday Institute)
Digital Durham Program Evaluation: Working Towards a Strategic Plan
Erin Huggins (Friday Institute) and Laura B. Fogle
Foundations of Media Literacy MOOC-Ed: Providing Professional Learning in the Era of Fake News and Mis-information
Meghan Manfra, Ph.D., and Alex Dreier (Friday Institute)
Refining Survey Tools’ Content, Theory and Presentation
Sara Weiss, Ph.D., (Friday Institute) and Paul Umbach, Ph.D.
A Sense of Awe: A Tool for Enhancing Science Instruction
Gail Jones, Ph.D., (Friday Institute), Sarah Carrier, Ph.D., Cesar Delgado, Ph.D., LaTricia Townsend, Ed.D., (Friday Institute) and Jill Grifenhagen, Ph.D.
Amplifying Youth Voices in University-Community Partnerships: Write. Engage. Lead.
Crystal Lee, Ed.D., and Jose Picart, Ph.D. (Friday Institute)
2018-2019 Grant Winners
- The Next Generation of Scientists, Science Communicators and Science Educators
Gail Jones, Sarah Carrier, Melanie Smith, Tamecia Jones, Lynn Cross and Sherry Freeman
- Literacy and Community Engagement Initiative
Crystal Chen and Jose Picart
- Connecting FACES: Developing and Piloting a Digital Learning Environment for the FACES Program
Jamie Pearson, Mary Ann Wolf and Alex Dreier
- Developing a Web App Tutoring Tool to Support Decoding and Spelling Instruction
Dennis Davis and Mark Samberg