Youth Purpose Award Winners

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For biographical information and a brief project description, select the name of the awardee.

2007 | 2008 | 2009

2007
Pizzolato, Jane
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh, School of Education
Department of Psychology in Education
Project: "Building Assets: Youth Purpose and Epistemological Development"
Shamah, Devora
Doctoral Candidate
Oregon State University, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Project: "Rural Youth: An Examination of Individual, Family, and Community Processes on Aspirations and Sense of Purpose"
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2008
Barber, Carolyn
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Education
Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Project: "Volunteerism as Purpose: Examining the Predictors of Long-Term Service Involvement"

Burrow, Anthony
Assistant Professor
Loyola University of Chicago, Department of Psychology
Project: "An Accelerated Longitudinal Study of Profiles of Purpose in Adolescence"

Staples, Jeanine M.
Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Project: "What's the Purpose?: How Urban Adolescents of Color Interpret and Respond to Noble and Ignoble Purposes Constructed in Media Texts"
Sullivan, Theresa
Doctoral candidate
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and Education
Project: "Exploring Development of Skills That Sustain Youth Purpose: The Effects of Service Learning and Social Context on the Sociopolitical Change Strategies of Middle School Youth"
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2009
The 2009 Youth Purpose Awards will be announced in fall, 2008.
Profiles will be posted in April, 2009

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