Sponsored Projects

Funded

• National Science Foundation. “COMPUGIRLS: A Culturally Relevant Technology Program for Girls” $ 853,051.00 September 2008-October 2011 (PI: Kimberly Scott Co-PIs: Elisabeth Hayes, Jenefer Husman, Gregory Aist, Sethuraman Panchanathan).
• National Science Foundation. “CAREER: Connecting with the future: Supporting Identity and Career Development in Post-Secondary Science and Engineering.” $622,840.00 September 2006-August 2011 (PI: J. Husman). The CAREER program provides funding to promising researchers early in their career, to foster both their research and their teaching. According to the NSF’s description, the CAREER program is “a Foundation-wide activity that offers NSF’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty members, and which embodies NSF’s commitment to encourage faculty to practice, and academic institutions to value, integration of research and education.” My work will benefit both Educational Psychology and Engineering Education; by better understanding how students think about their futures in Engineering, we can better support and guide them, increasing recruitment and retention.
• The Wolf Aviation Fund “Stories to Live by: Talking to Past, Present, and Future Aviators”. $1500.00 August, 2007 (PI: M. Niemczyk, co PI: J. Husman).
• Arizona Board of Regents “The Learning Strategies Toolbox: Supporting Students Career Identity Development” $24,520 April 2005-September 2006. (PI, J. Husman Co-PI M. Niemczyk). This study examines the effect of students’ career identity on their motivation for learning in a vocationally focused program. The findings of this research will result in a post-secondary instructional intervention, the effectiveness of which will also be examined.
• American Psychological Association, Division 15 “Historian Project”. $16,255. August 2003- August 2005. (PI: J. Husman). The goal of this project is to collect the oral history of Educational Psychology by interviewing the past leadership of Division 15.
• Renaissance School Institute. "The Integration of Renaissance Programs into an Urban Title I Elementary School, and its Effect on School-wide Improvement." $139,749. August 2001-August 2004. (PI: S. Brem, Co-PI J. Husman; partner: Harris Elementary School, Gilbert Unified School District) This study is a retrospective study examining the effects of computer-based reforms on reading education and Title I school wide reform goals. It forms the foundation of dissertations by Linda Sadusky.
• University of Alabama, Research Action Committee: “African American college students’ future time perspective and its impact on their achievement motivation.” $4960.00 August 2001- August 2002. (PI: J. Husman).
• University of Alabama, Research Action Committee: “A study of pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the utility of their educational psychology course.” $5000.00 August 1999 - August 2001. (PI: J. Husman).
• University of Alabama, College of Education: “College students’ selfregulation of their perceptions of the instrumentality of their courses for their future goals.” $1000.00 January 2001 – August 2001 (PI: J. Husman).