The Research Showcase will be held on Friday, March 28, 2025.

Research Showcase is an annual event where students and faculty within Anne's College present their work to a wider audience. The purpose of Research Showcase is to raise and address issues related to research and grant possibilities within Anne's College and to facilitate collaboration within and across departments to promote research initiatives. During the showcase, the participating faculty and Robert M. Gagné Research Prize finalists give PowerPoint presentations, and graduate students present their work during the poster session. Participants receive financial support to present their research at an outside regional, national, or international conference. Breakfast and lunch are served on the day of the conference. 

Furthermore, the Research Showcase committee works with the Associate Dean for Research to raise awareness of research initiatives and grant opportunities within the college that may be of interest to faculty in the college. Please contact the faculty representative from your home department with any questions. 

The application is open until 11:59 PM on January 31, 2025 and can be accessed here. If you have any questions regarding your submitted application form, please contact Juhee Kim. If you have any questions regarding Research Showcase, please contact Josh Newman or refer to the research showcase guidelines.

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Robert M. Gagné Research Prize Winners

Outstanding Faculty Research Award Winners

2024: Dr. Robert C. Schoen

School of Teacher Education

Impact of an Inquiry-Oriented Intervention on Teaching and Learning of Seventh-Grade Statistics

2023: Dr. Erica Harbatkin

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbate Staffing Challenges in Turnaround Schools? Evidence from Michigan

2022: Dr. Jenny Root

School of Teacher Education

Experiences of Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disability and Their Caregivers During Covid-19

2021: Dr. Lama Jaber

School of Teacher Education

“We Became the Kids in the Classroom!”- Promoting Responsive Teaching through Cultivating Teachers’ Epistemic Empathy

2020: Dr. Sonia Cabell

School of Teacher Education

Impact of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Read-Aloud Program on Kindergarteners' Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and General Knowledge

2019: Dr. Rebecca Brower

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Overcoming the “Trash Talk in Your Head”: Extending an Ethic of Care to Students Experiencing Intersectional Stigma in Community College

2018: Dr. Stephanie Zuilkowski

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Are Low-cost Private Schools Worth the Investment? Evidence on Parent Preferences and Student Outcomes in Nairobi Primary Schools

2017: Bradley Cox
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

“A spectrum of student success: Identifying factors affecting access, experiences, and outcomes for students on the Autism spectrum”

2016: Young-Suk Kim
School of Teacher Education

Eye-movements in Oral and Silent Reading and Reading Proficiency for Beginning Readers

2015: Debra Osborn
Educational Psychology and Learning Systems

Career and Mental Health Counseling: Integrating Theory, Research and Practice

2014: Bradley Cox
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Lip Service or Actionable Insights? Linking Student Experiences to Assessment, Accountability, and Data-Driven Decision Making in Higher Education

2013: Ayesha Khurshid
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Narratives of Rights, Honor, and Wisdom in a Transnational Women’s Education Project

2012: Victor Sampson
School of Teacher Education

The development of science proficiency through argument focused lab instruction in High School Biology [The development of science proficiency]

2011: Bradley Cox
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Racial equality in graduation rates at selective intuitions: Accounting for pre-college differences [Net Racial Equality]

Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award Winners

2024: Gwoncheol Park

Health, Nutrition, & Food Sciences

A gut pathobiont triggers neuroinflammation and neurocognitive impairment via breaching the gut-brain axis in a preclinical model of Alzheimer's disease: from microbial pathogenesis to neuropathogenesis

2023: Xiaonan Jiang

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

A Cross-National Analysis of Teacher Collaborative Learning and School Support Structure

2022: Seyda Uysal

School of Teacher Education

Attending to Voices of Women and Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students: Conflicting Perceptions of Mathematical Competence

2021: Danielle Rhemer

School of Teacher Education

Uncertainty and Cognitive Demand on Students’ Thinking in Science Classrooms

2020: Sebnem Atabas

School of Teacher Education

A Tale of Two Sets of Norms: Comparing Opportunities for Student Agency in Mathematics Lessons with and without Interactive Simulations

2019: John Muchira

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Stimulating Agribusiness Entrepreneurship to Solve Youth Unemployment in Kenya

2018: Cassandra Howard

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Teacher Leaders’ Agency in Collaborative Professional Learning

2017: Haozhou Pu
Sport Management

Leveraging in-group identities for the distant fans: A case study of the international official supporting clubs

2016: Gareth Wilkinson
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

District Sensemaking and Implementation of Teacher Professional Development A Case of Lesson Study in Florida

2015: Umit Tokac
Educational Psychology and Learning Systems

Effects of Game-Based Learning on Students’ Mathematics Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

2014: Shawn Kent
School of Teacher Education

The Relationship Between Component Skills and Writing Quality and Fluency Across Development

2013: Christopher Thompson
Educational Psychology and Learning Systems

The Impact of Multiple Endpoint Dependency on the Q Statistic in Meta-analysis

2012: Niu Gao
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

School incentives, principal characteristics and teacher assignment [School Incentives Principals and teachers]

2011: Hulya Yurekli
Educational Psychology and Learning Systems

The relationship between parameters from two polytomous item response theory models [Two Item Response Theory Models]