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WACO, Texas (March 31, 2021) – As National Autism Awareness Month begins in April, two Baylor University
School of Education faculty members have received grant awards from the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to fund research and training in behavioral intervention practices that improve outcomes for children with autism.
Tonya Davis, Ph.D., BS ’02, MS ’04, professor of educational psychology and director of the special education program in the Baylor School of Education, was awarded a $474,843 grant to provide intervention training to teachers who serve students with autism in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Stephanie Gerow, Ph.D., assistant professor of special education, was awarded a $369,699 grant to provide intervention training to parents.
WACO, Texas (March 4, 2021) –
Stephanie Gerow, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational psychology in the Baylor University
School of Education, has earned a coveted grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund research that will provide early childhood professionals with behavioral intervention training for children with developmental disabilities.
The award an Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Early Career Development and Mentoring Award from the U.S. Department of Education provides $493,412 in research funding and is the first of its kind awarded to a Baylor faculty member.
“What we find is that kids with developmental disabilities are more likely to engage in problem behavior, and those kids are at a higher risk for having lifelong difficulties without interventions that can improve those problem behaviors,” Gerow said. “For the community agencies that provide important services to children with developmental disabilities, there has been little in
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WACO, Texas (Jan. 27, 2021) – In the fight against human trafficking, law enforcement officers are forced to navigate many technological challenges to break up illicit networks and rescue individuals caught up in human trade. A Baylor University professor and a former student, now a faculty member at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), are working to address many of those challenges with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Stacie Petter, Ph.D., Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics in Baylor s Hankamer School of Business, and
WACO, Texas (Jan. 7, 2021) – Baylor University researchers
Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., associate professors of environmental science, have been awarded an $890,000 grant by the
Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research (ASR) to examine the impact of urban pollution on thunderstorm activity. The grant,
TRACER-MAP: Mapping Aerosol Processes across Houston during convective cell events, enables researchers to conduct measurements in Houston in the summer of 2021 to tie into an overarching, multi-institution, multi-agency research project called Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER).
“We are excited that TRACER will bring together scientists from Department of Energy, NASA and numerous academic institutions to work together on atmospheric science and chemistry in Houston,” Sheesley said.