Category: Research

Faculty create program to better train educators

Creating a program to train educators to better teach students with developmental disabilities, including autism, is the goal of new grant-funded research by faculty in the Purdue University’s College of Education. Rose Mason, an assistant professor of educational studies in...

Education faculty grant to focus on student engagement

College of Education faculty received a $1.4 million grant by the Institute of Education Sciences through the U.S. Department of Education to design and develop the CourseMIRROR mobile learning system. The system combines mobile learning technologies with natural language processing...

Speaker comes to Purdue in honor of Autism Awareness

In honor of Autism Awareness Month this April, the Purdue Autism Cluster is thrilled to have Dr. Ilene Schwartz as our invited speaker this year. Dr. Schwartz is a Professor of Special Education at the University of Washington and the...

Stepping Up Technology Implementation grant awarded

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Special Education Dr. Ben Mason. In collaboration with a colleague at the University of Kansas, Ben was awarded a $2.4 million Stepping Up Technology Implementation grant from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in...

Two faculty grants fully funded

The investigation team of Trish Morita-Mullaney, Wayne Wright, and Ming Ming Chiu who received word that two US Department of Education grants were fully funded. Project PUEDE seeks to increase the overall instructional and family engagement capacities of pre- and in-service...

STEM teacher recruitment project gains additional funding

CATALYST faculty, Lynn Bryan, Selcen Guzey, Muhsin Meneske, and Jill Newton, received a $195,000 award to continue a state level STEM teacher recruitment project called the 21st Century STEM Teachers Scholarship Program. Funded by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education,...