GRANT ACTIVITIES

·       Principal investigator, “Literacy Development: Limited English proficiency adults”, $149,000 funded by the NIH, 2003-present.

·       Principal investigator, “Adult literacy: Issues of personal and community development”, $50,000 funded by the Spencer Foundation, 1998-2000.

·       Principal investigator, “Evaluation of a Hmong transitional bilingual education program”, $5,546, funded by the St. Paul School District, MN, 1995-1996.

·       Principal Investigator, “Semantic context, repetition effects and word recognition”, $15,450, funded by the University of Minnesota, Grant-in-Aid program, 1994.

·       Co‑principal investigator, “Developing, implementing and evaluating a model adult literacy program in Istanbul”, $10,000, funded by the Turkish Mother-Child Education Foundation, 1994.

·       Principal investigator, “Language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking students”, $7,500 funded by the Spencer Foundation Small Grants program, 1992.

·       Co‑principal investigator, “Evaluating innovative approaches to accounting education”, $6,000, funded by the Illinois CPA Foundation,1992.

·       One of the principal investigators (with the project “Cross-language transfer of skills and knowledge”), on Mellon Foundation’s $1,025,000 grant to the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1989-1990.

·       One of the principal investigators (with the projects “Information processing of bilinguals” and “Inferences on expository texts”),  on  the U.S. Department of Education’s $850,000 grant to the Reading Research and Education Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,1987-1990.