Research

  • Susan Woodhouse and Josselyn Alvarenga

    Woodhouse and Alvarenga Receive NIH Supplement Grant

    Susan Woodhouse and Josselyn Alvarenga recently received an NIH Supplement Grant to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research Careers to advance their work over the next two years through the Hearts and Hands Together project.

    Woodhouse is an associate professor, program director for the COE's Counseling Psychology Program, and director of the CARE Lab and Hands and Hearts Together. Alvarenga is a second year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program.

  • Sara Kangas

    Kangas Receives Prestigious Grant from the Spencer Foundation

    Sara Kangas, program director of COE's Special Education and ESL programs, has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation through its prestigious Large Grants program. Kangas and Jamie Schissel, an associate professor of Teacher Education and Higher Education at UNC Greensboro, are the principal investigators for the project titled, "Individualized Language Plans for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities: Investigating Implementation and Stakeholder Perspectives."

  • Cameron Anglum

    Anglum's Work Cited in White House Report

    The work of Educational Leadership faculty member J. Cameron Anglum was cited in the White House's annual Economic Report of the President, which was released last week. His paper (cited on page 259) examines the federal school funding response to the Great Recession to draw lessons for federal pandemic relief funding in public schools nationwide.

  • Raquel Sosa

    Sosa’s Research Leverages Identity to Inform Mental Health Strategies

    Raquel Sosa knew she wanted to pursue a career in psychology before she ever set foot on a college campus. “Looking at the differences between clinical and counseling psych, counseling psychology definitely attracted me a lot more because of the emphasis on social justice,” she said. Sosa was interested in working with Latinx and immigrant populations which made the COE’s Counseling Psychology doctoral program a good fit for her interests.

  • Jennifer Lauriello

    Lauriello Mixes Teaching, Mentorship and Research to Create a Career in Behavior Analysis

    Jennifer Lauriello oversees clinical operations for Lehigh University Autism Services (LUAS) and  provides supervision for the Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) who work directly with clients.

    Working at LUAS and enrolling in the COE’s Special Education doctoral program have allowed Lauriello to grow her clinical skill set, while developing and implementing interventions in a clinical setting. Her position also allows her to teach future clinicians and LUAS staff  to incorporate naturalistic interventions with clients.

  • Kallie (Ziltz) Pearl Named Percy Hughes Award Recipient

    Kallie (Ziltz) Pearl '16 '17 '18G '24 Ph.D. is a four-time Lehigh alumna, most recently graduating from the College of Education’s Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) program with her doctoral degree.

    Pearl joined the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty in 2020, where she has developed innovative ways to engage students—especially women and other underrepresented populations—in computer science.

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    Brook Sawyer Awarded Institute of Education Sciences Grant for Parents Plus en Español

    Brook Sawyer was recently awarded a three-year Development and Innovation Research Grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The nearly $2 million grant will facilitate Sawyer’s continued development and extension of her Parents Plus program, which also was funded by the IES.

    Sawyer's program empowers Spanish-speaking parents to help their preschool children improve their language outcomes.