Graduate Student Assembly
The Graduate Student Assembly, serving as the voice of graduate students at the UMASS Boston campus, is dedicated to enhancing the academic and professional development of graduate students. This includes support for graduate research and skill development. Our intention is to reach the graduate student body with the various programs we offer.
ATTENTION ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Our Professional Development Grant Application has CHANGED!!!! See the Forms and Applications Tab to Download the newest form.
Congratulations to our Spring 2009 Research Award Winners:
Craig R. Bollinger Memorial Research Grant
Rebecca Moryl
Public Policy
Dissertation Title- “Alignment of Economic Development Goals and Policy: considering economic development goals, their expression and their execution in economically-struggling communities”
Patricia Lee
Clinical Psychology
Dissertation Title- “Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury through an Asian American Lens: Interrelationships among Asian Values, Coping Style, and Psychosocial Outcomes”
Michael Rollock
Clinical Psychology
Dissertation Title- “Couples’ Joint Activity and Relationship Quality: Exploring the Comparative Effects of Joint Volunteer Work vs. Play”
Dr. Robert W. Spayne Research Grant
Catherine Kraper
Clinical Psychology
Thesis Title- “Visual search among toddlers with autism spectrum disorders: An eye-tracking study”
Melody Blass Fisher
Clinical Psychology
Thesis Title- “A Lonely Road: Social Isolation, Death Anxiety, and Attributions of Hostility in a University Population”
Bernadine Angelo
History
Thesis Title- “Channeling the Red Man’s Spirit: Early Twentieth-Century Spiritualism and the influence of Native American Culture on Spiritualist Identity at the Wigwam Spiritualist Temple, Onset, Massachusetts, 1902-1930”