Achievement

Former trainee Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, '07), now a faculty member at NYU, has been named one of four new William T. Grant Scholars for 2010, a program that supports promising early-career researchers in the behavioral and social sciences with five-year research awards of $350,000. In announcing the winners, the William T. Grant Foundation noted that "Sharkey is now part of a new generation of researchers whose work is advancing our understanding of youth development." Also in 2010, two former IGERT trainees won The Spencer Foundation's Exemplary Dissertation Award for education research: Judith Scott-Clayton (Ph.D. in Public Policy, '09), now a faculty member at Columbia University, and Jal Mehta (Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy, '07, IGERT no. 9870661), now an IGERT faculty member himself in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.