Three Education Doctoral Students Selected
As
TCALL Barbara Bush Fellows
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Rebekah Haynes, Petra Robinson and Megan Terry were
announced as the 2007-2008 Barbara Bush Fellows by The Texas Center for
the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL)
at Texas A&M University
. Each will receive $33,333 in fellowship funding made possible by the
generous support of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
“I am incredibly excited about the prospect of working with our
three new fellows who will start their fellowships at the end of August,” Dominique
Chlup, director of TCALL, said. “These impressive students are
deeply committed to fostering strong family literacy programs here in
Texas.”
The Barbara Bush Fellowships at TCALL give Ph.D. candidates
the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of family
literacy. These generous fellowships consist of a one-year award, which
may be used to offset the cost of travel expenses to conferences, dissertation
research, and/or tuition, fees, and maintenance while a student is enrolled
at Texas A&M University. During their fellowship year, students
will have the opportunity to present their work at national family literacy
conferences and publish their research in peer-reviewed journals.
“I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to provide mentoring,
academic training and research opportunities for doctoral students at
Texas A&M in incredibly worthwhile areas such as family literacy,” Chlup
said.
Haynes, a doctoral student in school psychology, will focus her research
on literacy found in the home environment, such as shared book reading,
as well as factors contributing to the parent-child relationship.
Robinson, a fall 2007 adult education doctoral student, will assess
the impact family literacy programs have on various elements of the participants'
family life, including economic impact, community involvement, parental
engagement, personal development and self-esteem, safety and health environment
and accountability, and literacy levels in family units.
Terry, also a doctoral student in school psychology, will create measures
for the Home Literacy Environment Test so that it can be used by a variety
of researchers and professionals to improve literacy in the home.
“The addition of these three new fellows to the fellowship program
at TCALL means that we have more than doubled in size. In addition, we
anticipate having two more TCALL fellows that will be selected this summer,” Chlup
said. “This is exactly the direction I hoped our fellowship program
would take, expanding each year and providing more students with the
necessary funds to pursue their doctoral work.”
The fellows will be formally introduced as the Barbara Bush Fellows
by former First Lady Barbara Bush at the Celebration
of Reading Program April 26 in Houston.
Jenna Kujawski, 979.845.7917, jkujawski@tamu.edu
Dominique Chlup, 979.845.6615, dchlup@tamu.edu
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