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Perla Ramos Carranza awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

4/24/2020

 
Doctoral student Perla Ramos Carranza has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue her research in STEM Education and Learning.  As a GRFP Fellow, she will receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 - which will go toward tuition, fees, and opportunities for international research and professional development.

Ramos Carranza a is one of three School of Education doctoral students to be named a 2020 fellow in STEM Education and Learning Research, most in the nation. It is the fifth time in the past seven years that the UCI School of Education is home to the most GRFP fellows in STEM Education and Learning Research in the nation.
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Ramos Carranza is a second-year doctoral student specializing in Human Development in Context. Her GRFP research, titled “The Role of Major-Related Organizations in the Persistence of Latinx Engineering Students,” will explore the role of the organizations on the identity, sense of belonging, and persistence of Latinx engineering students. She also will explore how the experience of these students may differ depending on their intersecting identities of class and gender and the identity-based nature (or not) of the organization.

“My interest in these research topics stems from my own struggles with identity as a Mexican-American woman in the educational spaces I have navigated and the important role that sources of support, such as my parents, played in my educational persistence,” Ramos Carranza said.

Ramos Carranza’s career goal is advocating for the educational success of underserved communities, particularly from the Latinx community.
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She is advised by Professor Sandra Simpkins and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus Deborah Lowe Vandell.
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The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. The program is the country’s oldest fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM fields. Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. For more information, please click here. 

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