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DECADE Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards (MGDA) - 2016

DECADE Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards (MGDA) - 2016

Review Committee Website

Call for Applications

 

Review Instructions

 

Reviewer Assignments

 

Score Sheet (complete one for each proposal you are reviewing)

2016 MGDA Proposals


DECADE Mentor

 

 School


Program


Proposal Title

 

 Previous MGDA recipient?


Total Amount Requested

Lonnie Alcaraz

Arts

Drama

Brown Bag Theatre Company: Performances of Latino/a Student Activism in the Academy

 

Previous MGDA award recipient in 2014 and 2015 for the same proposal (Brown Bag Theatre).  The award was for $13,000 and $27,800 respectively.

$24,100

Tom Boellstorff

Social Science

Anthropology

SOGI and Inclusive Excellence

 

$30,000

Sora Han

Social Ecology

Criminology, Law and Society

Race and Justice Studies (RJS) Emphasis

 

$30,000

Ivette N. Hernández-Torres

Humanities

Spanish & Portuguese

3 part: Intensive Research Sessions, Diversity Alumni Lecture, Community Outreach

 

Previous MGDA award recipient in 2015 for a similar proposal (Diversity Alumni Lecture and Outreach).  The award was for $4,000.

$12,800

Ann Hironaka

Social Sciences

Sociology

Initiative for Diversity Awareness and Creation of a Safe Space

Previous MGDA award recipient in 2012 for a collaborative proposal (support and retention for URM students in Social Science) and 2014 (URM Mentoring Program). The award was $15,125 and $30,000 respectively.

$30,000

Susanne Jaeggi (PI)
James Earthman

Education and Engineering

Education and Chemical Engineering

Do Co-Curricular Engineering Organizations Support the Retention of Graduate Women Engineers?

Jim Earthman was a previous MGDA award recipient in 2015 (Discover Science Initiative).  The award was for $5,000.

$30,000

Natalia Komarova

Physical Sciences

Math

Improving the Climate of the Mathematics Graduate Program: the past, the present, and the future

 

$30,000

Martha Mecartney

Engineering

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

A Study of Markers of Graduate Student Success from Graduate Student Applications

 

$30,000

Amelia Regan (PI)

ICS and Social Sciences

Computer Science and Political Science

Strengthening Diversity through Research and Training

 

$29,562

Ana Rosas

Social Science

Chicano-Latino Studies

Chicano-Latino Studies 289: Generative Pathways: The Future of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

 

$10,442

Darryl Taylor

Arts

Music

African American Art Song Alliance - 20th Anniversary Conference

 

$30,000

David Timberlake

Graduate Division

Public Health

Institutional factors affecting retention of underrepresented minority doctoral students in schools and programs in public health

 

$22,790

 

 

 


 Total

$309,694