School of Education graduate students receive Global Health Institute awards


This year, three graduate students with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have received Global Health Institute awards and grants.

Niu Yanzhuo, a graduate student with the Department of Educational Psychology, received a Graduate Student Research Award for her project, “Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, Am I Attractive: The Effect of Auto-Beauty Filters on College Female Students’ Self-Evaluation.” Yanzhuo will focus on how exposure to enhanced image of self would influence one’s evaluation of self, based on research linking selfie-editing to behaviors with body dissatisfaction.

“Interpretation of Covariation Data: The Influence of Symmetry of Variables,” a project from Rui Meng, a graduate student with Department of Educational Psychology, received a Graduate Student Research Award. Meng’s research explores the difficulty interpreting covariation data, which constrains medical decision making.

Ngonidzashe Mpofu, a graduate student with the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, has also received a Graduate Student Research Award. Mpofu’s  project is titled “A Pilot Study: Closing the Rehabilitation Service Utilization Gaps of New Zealand’s (Aotearora) Maori People.” Mpfou’s research project addresses the lack of research regarding cultural- and needs-informed strategies that rehabilitation service providers can use to close the service utilization gap for the Maori that currently exists.

Read the news release here.

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