UIC graduate students receive Spencer fellowships

Recipients include former Grad College RA

"Two University of Illinois Chicago graduate students, Jasmine Jones and Elizabeth Maher, have earned National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowships. The highly competitive fellowship supports 35 exceptional dissertation projects on the history, theory, analysis or application of formal and informal education.

As a Spencer fellow, Jones, who is pursuing an interdisciplinary math and science education concentration in the curriculum and instruction program, will complete her dissertation exploring the relationship between science education and justice-centered community-based projects. [...]

For Maher, a doctoral candidate in history, the fellowship will allow her to finish her dissertation on the history of autism in the United States and the roles race and gender have played in that history...."

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