The Racial/Ethnic Inequalities Research Awards听support graduate students of color as well as graduate student research on race/ethnicity.听 For summer 2021, we are able to fund seven exciting research projects. The award winners and their project titles are:听
- Jose Sanchez听and听Jen Tostlebe: "Where colors collide: Does race moderate the gang membership and misconduct association?"
- Melissa Villarreal: Dissertation research (intersectional, multi-level analysis of Mexican immigrants and their disproportionate vulnerability in post-disaster recovery)
- Kim Truong-Vu: Dissertation research (examining听Asian American subgroup differences in the likelihood of initiating the HPV vaccine series)
- Adenife Modile: Dissertation research: 鈥淎nemia in Sub-Saharan Africa: improved Understanding of the Determinants of Maternal Iron Deficiency鈥
- Jocelyn West: Third year Paper research: "What鈥檚 in an Index? Evaluating a Measure of Social Vulnerability in Puerto Rico"
- Jax Gonzalez: Dissertation research (examination of critical teacher education program)
- Micah Pyles听补苍诲听Asa Iacobucci: "The 鈥楥olor of COVID:鈥 Historicizing the Structural Disparities that Drive Disproportionate Mortality Rates among African American Communities"
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