LAURA PERNA, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE
Contracts & Grants/Fellowships, Prizes & Awards

Contracts & Grants
Fellowships, Prizes & Awards

Contracts and Grants  
1996 Principal Investigator, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) Sponsored Research Grant: "An examination of the effects of financial aid on student choice of college to attend;" $500.
   
1998 – 1999 Principal Investigator, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research Grant: "The role of historically Black colleges and universities in preparing African Americans for faculty careers;" $15,000.
   
2000 – 2001 Principal Investigator, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research Grant: "Racial/ethnic group differences in the realization of educational plans;" $15,000.
   
2001 – 2002 Principal Investigator, Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Research Grant: "The status of women and minorities among community college faculty;" $30,000.
   
2002 Principal Investigator, University of Maryland General Research Board (GRB) Summer Research Award: "Understanding the decision to enroll in a graduate program: Sex and racial/ethnic group differences;" $8,750.
   
2002 - 2003 Principal Investigator, Lumina Foundation for Education: "Understanding the choice of college attended by students with low family incomes and low socioeconomic status: The role of state context;" $42,200.
   
2004 – 2005 Co-Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator, Lumina Foundation for Education: “Race equity and diversity in public higher education in the South;” $323,800.
   
2004 – 2006 Co-Principal Investigator, Lumina Foundation for Education: “Combined impact of federal, state, and institutional policies on prospective students’ opportunity for college;” $321,500.


Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards

*Promising Scholar/Early Career Achievement Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2003.
*Intergenerational Research Symposium sponsored by the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, Selected to participate as an Emerging Scholar, November 2002.
*Wheeler Family Memorial Scholarship, University of Michigan, 1995.
*ASHE Graduate Student Seminar on Higher Education Policy, Selected participant, November 1994.
*U.S. Department of Education Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1990-92.
*Magna cum laude graduate, University of Pennsylvania, 1988.

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