Morgan Named Recipient of Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Press Release - June 2, 2008
Paul L. Morgan, assistant professor in the College of Education, has been selected to receive a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship award.
The fellowship program was established in 1986 with funding from the Spencer Foundation to support early career scholars conducting educational research. The fellowship provides funding to these scholars for one year's release time from teaching and administrative duties in order to complete projects considered by the academy as likely to make "significant scholarly contributions to the field of education." The program also helps advance the scholarly training of its recipients through activities involving National Academy of Education members.
Morgan received the fellowship for his project titled, "Children's Psychopathology: Trajectories, Risk Factors and Effects of Services." This project analyzes data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study -- Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a nationally representative sample of children entering U.S. schools in 1998. Morgan's project has two goals. The first is to identify the trajectories and risk factors of children's teacher-reported attentional, externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors, while also investigating whether these factors increase a child's likelihood of self-reporting feeling socially isolated, angry or sad. The second goal is to estimate the effects of retention and special education on children's teacher-rated behaviors and self-reported feelings.
This press release courtesy of Penn State's Department of Public Information
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