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EXTERNAL FUNDED GRANTS
The COE faculty and staff are involved in a broad range of funded research projects and the grants listed in this section are research expenditures for 2006-07. Our grants include:

Linda Bambara (Special Education). Lehigh support for community living, Lehigh and Northampton Counties, MH/MR, $991,817.

Ward Mitchell Cates (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Bethlehem Area School District High School laptop evaluation
project, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $12,726.

Ward Mitchell Cates (Teaching, Learning, and Technology).
MMTS content unit, Lehigh Valley Hospital, $145.

Christine Cole (School Psychology). Community choices, Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton Counties, MH/MR, $500,515.

H. Lynn Columba (Teaching, Learning, and Technology).
PITA IX: Assessing and helping more students achieve success with First in MathTM Online program, Pennsylvania Technology Alliance, $48,520.

H. Lynn Columba (Teaching, Learning, and Technology).
PITA X: Enhancing First in MathTM Online with teacher's guides, multimedia, and intelligent tutoring, Pennsylvania Technology Alliance, $2,325.

George DuPaul (School Psychology) & Lee Kern (Special Education). Project ACHIEVE: Prevention of behavioral deficits
in young ADHD children, National Institute of Mental Health, $275,753.

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, $82,232.

Michael George (Centennial School). IDEA-B: Expanding job opportunities for troubled youth, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $33,956.

Michael George (Centennial School). Centennial School, Pennsylvania
Department of Education, $3,044,196.

Daphne Hobson (Educational Leadership). Office of Overseas Schools, US Department of State, $20,000.

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), $99.

Asha Jitendra (Special Education). Enhancing the mathematical problem solving performance of seventh grade students using schema-based instruction, IES, $310,251.

Lee Kern (Special Education) & George DuPaul (School Psychology). Project KIDS: Center for evidence-based practice: Young children with challenging behaviors, University of South Florida, $82,823.

Lee Kern (Special Education). Project REACH: National center for students with intensive social, behavioral and emotional needs, US Department of Education, $728,863.

Lee Kern (Special Education) & Linda Bambara (Special Education). Extending positive behavioral support: Utilization, applicability and long-term outcomes, US Department of Education, $68,296.

Patricia Manz (School Psychology). Project CARES: Evaluation of the Philadelphia Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP), William Penn Foundation, $35,929.

Edward Shapiro (School Psychology) & George DuPaul (School Psychology). Training leaders in pediatric school psychology: Strengthening family-schoolcommunity partnerships for students with
or at-risk for emotional/behavioral disorders, US Department of Education, $29,773.

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, $127,225.

Edward Shapiro (School Psychology). Center for promoting healthy
development for individuals with disabilities, US Department of
Education, $87,916.

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, $66,815.

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, $280,282.

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, $81,951.

Edward Shapiro (School Psychology), George DuPaul (School Psychology), and Thomas Power (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia). Leadership in Pediatric School Psychology: Developing leaders for system wide change in urban environments for students with or at risk for emotional/behavioral disorders, US Department of Education, $23,071.

George White (Educational Leadership). The urban school leadership academy, US Department of Education, $535,997.

INTERNAL GRANTS AND OTHER FACULTY AWARDS
The projects listed in this section are for internal grants or awards and represent the project's total. In 2006-07, COE faculty received the following:

Margaret Barber (Educational Leadership). A comparative study of the
influence of school leadership preparation on practice and school improvement, Lehigh Faculty Research Grant, $2,181.

Arpana Inman (Counseling Psychology). Intersection of cultures: Complexities 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 Faculty Research Award, Lehigh University, $1,700.

Arpana Inman (Counseling Psychology). Recipient of the Minority Junior Faculty Research Award, Lehigh University, $5,000.

Arpana Inman (Counseling Psychology). Elementary School Counseling Grant. Allentown School District, $15,000.

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.

Jill Sperandio (Educational Leadership). Lehigh Faculty Research Grant, $1,500.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Several of the COE faculty have been engaged in funded projects with faculty from one of Lehigh's three other colleges: College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Business and Economics (CBE) and P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science (RCEAS); or with colleagues at other institutions or agencies. The amounts listed for the grants represent the total award for the project.

Alec Bodzin (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Jointly with
D. Anastasio (CAS). Where is the missing carbon? Multidisciplinary
web-based-inquirymodules for earth system science instruction, NASA Earth System Science Enterprise (ESSE 21), October 2004-July 2006, $96,195.

Alec Bodzin (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Jointly with
L. Cirruci; D. Bothwell & J. Santoro (Broughal Middle School).
NASA Explorer Schools, May 2006-May 2009, $17,500.

Alec Bodzin (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). 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 (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Jointly with
Beth Hertz; Michele Hinkle; Jeffery Fries & John Monahan (Allentown School District). Enhancing education through technology: The Allentown School District elementary math initiative, Pennsylvania Department of Education (NCLB), October 2004-October 2006, $674,000.

H. Lynn Columba (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Jointly with Dr. Glenn Blank (RCEAS) & Dr. Henry Odi (Academic Outreach Office, Lehigh
University). ITEST: LAUNCH-IT, NSF, 2006-2009, $1,024,329.

H. Lynn Columba (Teaching, Learning, and Technology). Jointly with Glenn Blank (RCEAS), Mr. Bob Sun (Suntex International), Dr. William Pottenger (RCEAS) & Dr. Henry Odi (Academic Outreach Office, Lehigh University). Lehigh Valley Partnership for GK-12 Teaching Fellows: Widening the pipeline, NSF, 2007-2010, $1,369,568.

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 2006- June 2007, $160,000.

George White (Educational Leadership). Collaborative
university/intermediate unit partnership, Bucks County Intermediate Unit, August 2005-August 2006, $35,000.

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