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EXTERNAL FUNDED GRANTS
LINDA BAMBARA (Special Education). Lehigh support for community living, Lehigh and Northampton Counties, MH/MR, $991,817.

MJ BISHOP (Educational Technology) & SALLY A. WHITE (College of Education). Clipper II: A Web-based curriculum research and development initiative, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, $25,028.

WARD MITCHELL CATES (Educational Technology and Technology-based Teacher Education). Bethlehem Area School District one-to-one laptop initiative, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $4,562.

WARD MITCHELL CATES (Educational Technology and Technology-based Teacher Education). MMTS content unit, Lehigh Valley Hospital, $3,728.

CHRISTINE COLE (School Psychology). Community choices, Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton Counties, MH/MR, $502,075.

KATHRYN DIPIETRO (Technology-based Teacher Education). ACTS in PA – Aligning curriculum standards in Pennsylvania: A teacher quality enhancement initiative: Professional development schools, Muhlenburg College, $6,845.

GEORGE DUPAUL (School Psychology) & ASHA JITENDRA (Special Education). Project PASS: Promoting academic achievement in ADHD children, US Department of Health and Human Services, $33,127.

GEORGE DUPAUL (School Psychology) & LEE KERN (Special Education). Project ACHIEVE: Prevention of behavioral deficits in young ADHD children, National Institute of Mental Health, $487,115.

GEORGE DUPAUL (School Psychology); ASHA JITENDRA (Special Education); LEE KERN (Special Education) & GEORGE WHITE (Educational Leadership). Children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: Long-term effects of psychosocial intervention, Pennsylvania Department of Health.

MICHAEL GEORGE (Centennial School). IDEA-B: Expanding job opportunities for troubled youth, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $32,695.

MICHAEL GEORGE (Centennial School). Centennial School, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $3,277,333.

DAPHNE HOBSON (Educational Leadership). Office of Overseas Schools, US Department of State, $29,410.

DAPHNE HOBSON (Educational Leadership). NAESP/LU international activities, National Association of Elementary School Principals, $35,013.

ARPANA INMAN (Counseling Psychology). Development of the South Asian Psychological Networking Association Website, APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT).

ASHA JITENDRA (Special Education). Project MAPS: Enhancing mathematical word problem solving performance of students with learning disabilities in general education mathematics classrooms, US Department of Education, $27,222.

LEE KERN (Special Education) & GEORGE DUPAUL (School Psychology). Project KIDS: Center for evidence-based practice: Young children with challenging behaviors, University of South Florida, $146,220.

LEE KERN (Special Education). Project REACH: National center for students with intensive social, behavioral and emotional needs, US Department of Education, $638,795.

LEE KERN (Special Education) & LINDA BAMBARA (Special Education). Extending positive behavioral support: Utilization, applicability and long-term outcomes, US Department of Education, $146,033.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology) & GEORGE DUPAUL (School Psychology). Training leaders in pediatric school psychology: Strengthening family-school-community partnerships for students with or at-risk for emotional/behavioral disorders, US Department of Education, $144,264.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology) & CHRISTINE COLE (School Psychology). Training school psychologists as integration consultants for students with low incidence disabilities, US Department of Education, $245,777.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology). Transition and assessment services, Varied school districts and county agencies, $887,383.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology). Center for promoting healthy development for individuals with disabilities, US Department of Education, $100,349.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology). Teacher quality study: An investigation of the impact of teacher study groups as a means to enhance the quality of reading instruction for first graders in high poverty schools in two states, Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education, $130,217.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology). Project MP3: Monitoring progress in Pennsylvania pupils – A multi-tiered model for progress monitoring from preschool through grade 4,US Department of Education, $85,432.

EDWARD SHAPIRO (School Psychology); PATRICIA MANZ (School Psychology) & Angeliki Nicolopoulou (College of Arts and Sciences – Psychology, Lehigh University). Early reading first program evaluation, Community Services for Children, Head Start of the Lehigh Valley, US Department of Education, $40,300.

ARNOLD SPOKANE (Counseling Psychology). Built environment and Hispanic elders behavioral health, University of Miami, $4,899.

GEORGE WHITE (Educational Leadership); C. Mayo (Allentown School District) & Karen Stout (University of Minnesota). The urban school leadership academy, US Department of Education, $260,516.
Total:                    $8,286,665

INTERNAL GRANTS AND OTHER FACULTY AWARDS
ARPANA INMAN (Counseling Psychology); Intersection of culturesComplexities in Asian-Indian-white interracial couples, Recipient of the Minority Junior Faculty Research Award, Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Grant, $15,000.

ARPANA INMAN (Counseling Psychology); Recipient of the Minority Junior Faculty Research Award, College of Education Research Award, Lehigh University, $5,000.

PATRICIA MANZ (School Psychology). Directing family involvement interventions for Head Start: Exploring important connections between parenting variables and families' involvement in children's education, Lehigh University Faculty Research Grant, $2,300.

TINA RICHARDSON (Counseling Psychology). Professional development,APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT), American Psychological Association, $4,000.

JILL SPERANDIO (Educational Leadership). Middle years program of the International Baccalaureate Foundation, Lehigh Faculty Research Grant, $1,400.
Total:                    $27,270

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
ALEC BODZIN (Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with D. Anastasio (CAS). Where is the missing carbon? Multidisciplinary Web-based-inquiry-modules for earth system science instruction, NASA Earth System Science Enterprise (ESSE 21), October 2004-July 2006, $92,795.

ALEC BODZIN (Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with L. Cirruci; D. Bothwell & J. Santoro (Broughal Middle School). NASA Explorer Schools, NASA Explorer School, May 2006-May 2009, $17,500.

ALEC BODZIN (Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with D. Bothwell & L. Dologite (Broughal Middle School). Survivor PA II, rivers and forests, Bethlehem Education Foundation, June 2006-May 2007, $2,000.

WARD MITCHELL CATES (Educational Technology and Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with Beth Hertz; Michele Hinkle; Jeffery Fries & John Monahan (Allentown School District). Enhancingeducation through technology: The Allentown School District elementary math initiative, Pennsylvania Department of Education (NCLB), October 2004-October 2006, $674,000.

H. LYNN COLUMBA (Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with William Pottenger (RCEAS); Glenn Blank (RCEAS) & Henry Odi (Academic Outreach Office, Lehigh University). STEM: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, NSF, June 2003-May 2007, $1,369,568.

JUDITH DUFFIELD (Technology-based Teacher Education). Jointly with Jami Goetz (University of Colorado at Denver). The IPTE consortium: Technology innovations in a teacher preparation partnership, US Department of Education/PT3, August 2001-July 2005, $1,403,631.

ARPANA INMAN (Counseling Psychology). Allentown School District, Allentown, PA, July 2005-June 2006, $15,880.

PATRICIA MANZ (School Psychology). Jointly with Christine McWayne (New York University) & Marika Ginsburg-Block (University of Delaware). Enhancing the cultural validity of the family involvement questionnaire for low-income, Latino families of preschool children, Society for the Study of School Psychology, September 2005-September 2006, $8,000.

GEORGE WHITE ((Educational Leadership). Jointly with Richard Brandt (LU Iacocca Institute). Governors school for global entrepreneurship, Pennsylvania Department of Education, July 2005-June 2006, $160,000.

GEORGE WHITE (Educational Leadership). Collaborative university/ intermediate unit partnership, Bucks County Intermediate Unit, August 2005-August 2006, $30,000.
Total:                    $3,773,374

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