The following graduate students received grants from JMU’s Office of Research and Scholarship to present their work at professional conferences during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Assessment and Measurement

Sarah Alahmadi received a grant to present "Using Process Data for Motivation Filtering in Remote, Low-Stakes Assessment" at the Innovations in Testing Conference by the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) in Orlando, FL, March 2022.

Kathryn Thompson received a grant to present "Recruiting to the Measurement Profession by Employing an Undergraduate Internship" at the National Council on Measurement in Education in San Diego, CA, April 2022.

Audiology 

Erin Hernon received a grant to present a poster on "Effect of Real-Ear Adjusted Stimuli on VEMP Variability", at the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, February, 2022.

Lara Leggio received a grant to present a poster on "Counselling in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Clinical Practice", at the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI), Washington, DC, May, 2022.

Haley Szabo received a grant to present a poster on "Age-Related Decline in Neural Synchrony and the Frequency-Following Response", at the American Academy of Audiology, St. Louis, MO, March-April 2022.

Sarah Wright received a grant to present a poster on "Assessing Word Recognition Through Head Turn Preference in Infants With Chronic Otitis", at the American Academy of Audiology, St. Louis, MO, March-April 2022.

Biology

Christian Brown received a grant to present “Modeling Red Spruce Restoration Potential Under Current and Future Predicted Climate Change" at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, Little Rock, AR, March-April, 2022.

Nicholas Heslep received a grant to present a poster on “Patterns of physical aging in a long-lived strepsirrhine, Propithecus coquereli" at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO, March, 2022.

Julia Portmann received a grant to present "Identifying Key Variables for Stream Restoration Success in a Chesapeake Bay Sub-Watershed" at the Association of Southeastern Biologists in Little Rock, AR, April 2022.

Bela Starinchak received a grant to present a poster on "A Comparative Analysis of the Trade-Offs Between Cotton Storage and Beef Production in Temperate and Tropical Pasturelands" at the Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) in Little Rock, AR, March-April 2022.

Rysa Thomas received a grant to present a poster on "Characterization of Glucocorticoid and Mineralocorticoid Receptor Expression in Red-Sided Garter Snakes" at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Spokane, WA, July 2022.

Clinical and Mental Health Counseling

Allison De Blois received a grant to present "The Integration of Motivational Interviewing and Affirmative Therapy for LGBTQIA+ Adolescents and Young Adults with Substance Use Concerns in Rural Communities", at the Conference - Humanism, Equity, Authenticity, & Liberation (HEAL), Association of Humanistic Counseling (AHC), Nashville, TN, May, 2022.

Sarah Johnson received a grant to present a poster of "COVID-19 Consequences on College Student Social Development", at the Association of Humanistic Counseling (AHC), Nashville, TN, May, 2022.

Combined-Integrated Clinical and School Psychology

Dorian Hayden received a grant to present "Mental Toughness: From Theory to Practice", at the AASP 2022 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Westchester, PA, April, 2022.

William Leap received a grant to present "Mental Toughness: From Theory to Practice", at the AASP 2022 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, West Chester, PA, April, 2022.

Rhea Nesbitt received a grant to present a poster on "Effective Parenting: Skills to Foster Healthy Child Development", at the National Association for School Psychologists, Boston, MA, February, 2022.

Shelly-Ann Peart James received a grant to present a poster on "Effective Parenting: Skills to Foster Healthy Child Development", at the National Association for School Psychologists (NASP), Boston, MA, February, 2022.

Tiffany Pempek Rah received a grant to present a poster on "Effective Parenting: Skills to Foster Healthy Child Development", at the National Association for School Psychologists, Boston, MA, February, 2022.

Tara Rajagopal received a grant to present a poster on "Effective Parenting: Skills to Foster Healthy Child Development", at the National Association for School Psychologists, Boston, MA, February, 2022.

Shir Wasserman received a grant to present "Mental Toughness: From Theory to Practice", at the Association of Applied Sport Psychology, West Chester, PA, April, 2022.

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Taylor Arbogast received a grant to present a poster on "Remote-Frequency Masking and Speech Perception in Adults", at the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, February, 2022.

Raghav Jha received a grant to present a "Amplitude-Modulated-Cvemp: A Novel Method to Assess Saccular Functionng in Aging Population", at the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, February, 2022.

Preeti Pandey received a grant to present a poster on "Presentation Level Effects on Listening Effort: Pupillometry and Listening Span", at the American Auditory Society, Scottsdale, AZ, February, 2022.

Counseling and Supervision

Shayna Finn received a grant to present a poster on "COVID-19 Consequences on College Student Social Development", at the Association for Humanistic Counseling, Nashville, TN, May, 2022.

Lynnquell Gardiner received a grant to participate in a 50 minute round table discussion on "Equity in the Pandemic: Counseling Immigrants in the U.S. during COVID-19", at the American Auditory Society, Nashville, TN, May, 2022.

Jinok Lim received a grant to participate in a 50 minute round table discussion on "Equity in the Pandemic: Counseling Immigrants in the U.S. during COVID-19", at the American Auditory Society, Nashville, TN, May, 2022.

Doctor of Musical Arts

Sheena Ramirez received a grant to perform "Words, Music, Memory: (Re)Presenting Voices of the Holocaust", at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education /Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, January, 2022.

Gianne Zhu received a grant to perform "The Colorful Sound of Brazillian Romantic Music", at the VMTA (Virginia Music Teachers Association) Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA, November, 2021.

Occupational Therapy 

Kaylee Lamper received a grant to present "Applying Immersive 360 Virtual Reality to OT", at the VOTA 2021 Annual Conference, online, October, 2021.

Tracy Young received a grant to present a poster on "Developing a Resiliency Skills Based Intervention for College Students to Support Graduate School Occupational Balance", at the VOTA, online, October, 2021.

Physical and Health Education Teacher Education 

Jeffrey Bartley received a grant to present "Lessons Learned From an Online Sexual Health Education Program” and “Paralympic School Day: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Parasport Education" at the SHAPE America National Convention, New Orleans, LA, April, 2022.

Psychological Sciences 

Megan Barnes received a grant to present a poster on "A Component Analysis of Behavior Management Strategies Used Within Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to Facilitate Verbalizations by Children with Development Disabilities" at the Association of Behavior Analysis International, Boston, MA, May, 2022.

Kara Eversole received a grant to present a poster on "How Many Trials of Backward Digit Task are Enough? Discriminating Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes on the BDT" at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February, 2022.

Stephanie LeRoy received a grant to present a poster on "Examining Response Styles Using Funnel Items" at the Association of Psychological Sciences (APS), Chicago, IL, May, 2022.

Mara McFadden received a grant to present a poster on "Cheap and Stealth Intervention to Increase Test - Taking Motivation: The Question-Behavior Effect" at the Association of Behavior Analysis International, Chicago, IL, May, 2022.

Peter Montwill received a grant to present "Political Consequences of COVID-19: Examining How Mortality Salience Affects Presidential Support and the Affect During a Pandemic" at SPSP Conference, San Francisco, CA, February, 2022.

Nicklas Phillips received a grant to present a poster on "How Negative Emoji Change the Tone of Text Message" at the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY, March, 2022.

Special Education

Colleen Fowkes received a grant to present "Using Eye Gaze Preference Assessments to Identify Preferred Stimuli" at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Orlando, FL, January, 2022.

Strategic Leadership Studies

Kennedy Musyoka  received a grant to present "Influence of Transformational Leadership Style on the Sustainability of Non-porfits in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the Association for Reserach on Noprofit Organizations and Voluntary Actions (ARNOVA), Atlanta, GA, November, 2021.

Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Justin Attas received a grant to meet with publishers regarding "Strand: the Silver Radio" at the Altanta Writer's Conference, Atlanta Writer's Club, Atlnata, GA, May, 2022.

Jessica Wiggins received a grant to present a poster on "Transitioning Positionality: Critical Reflection in the Classroom" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, March, 2022.