Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

​The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation awarded fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob a 2021 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in support of her dissertation research. The award recognizes “well-conceived and imaginative research into the pressing economic, social, policy, or political issues that impact the five counties of Southern California” (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura counties).
 
Jacob will receive $20,000 for her project, titled "Breaking the language code: Unlocking computer science for Latinx students."
“My research project represents the first initiative in the nation to develop and test a computer science curriculum that helps predominantly Latinx and low-income students designated as English learners succeed in computing,” Jacob said. “The curriculum employs what we know about linguistic scaffolding, culturally relevant pedagogy, and instructional design to help Latinx students and other diverse learners leverage their own and their community resources for greater success and entry into the field of computing.”

Eight doctoral students across southern California received a 2021 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship award. Three of the awardees are UCI students – Jacob (Education), Nathan Mahaffey (Social Ecology), and Steven Schmidt (Social Science).
 
Read more about the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation here.

UCI Public Impact Distinguished Fellow

Fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob is one of four UCI students selected as a 2021 Public Impact Distinguished Fellow. Jacobs will receive $12,000 to support her research on the teaching and learning of computer science to multilingual students. As part of her research, Jacob is developing, implementing, and evaluating a curriculum that is being integrated into elementary schools across Santa Ana Unified School District as well as in San Francisco Unified and Chicago Public Schools.  
“This curriculum leverages what is known about linguistic scaffolding, instructional design, and culturally-relevant pedagogy to help multilingual students and other diverse students leverage their own and their community resources for greater success and entry into the field of computing,” Jacob said. 

 “Sharin's contributions have been critical to three grants we have been awarded for this work,” said Professor Mark Warschauer, Jacob’s advisor. “These grants include a $5 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education, a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and most recently, a grant from the American Educational Research Association to hold the first national conference on this topic, which Sharin is now helping to organize. It is an honor to work with such a brilliant graduate student so dedicated to serving the public interest.” ​

​​Cal State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Dissertation Fellowship

​The California State University Chancellor's office awarded doctoral candidate Sharin Jacob the 2021-2022 Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship will support her dissertation work titled: Breaking the Language Code: Unlocking Computer Science for Multilingual Students.
 
CDIP fellowships are awarded to academically accomplished doctoral students with the goal of increasing the number of CSU faculty with the qualifications, motivation, and skills needed to teach the diverse students of the CSU system. Jacob will receive $5,000, faculty mentorship, and professional development and grant resources to support the timely completion of her dissertation.

​Cal State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Fellow

​PhD in Education student Sharin Jacob has been named ​a 2019 California State University Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Scholar.

CDIP provides financial support, mentorship, and professional development opportunities from the CSU’s Chancellor’s Office for promising doctoral students who are interested in becoming faculty at a California State University. A major feature of CDIP is the loan forgiveness program. For each year of full-time teaching at a CSU campus, a recipient will have one-fifth of the loan principal and interest cancelled. 

Sharin is a third year doctoral student specializing in Language, Literacy, and Technology. Her research interests include literacy and technology, computer assisted language learning, second language acquisition, academic language and literacy, stem education, and sociolinguistics. She is advised by Professor Mark Warschauer. Her CDIP mentor is Professor Lia Kamhi-Stein, Cal State LA.

David E. Eskey Memorial Award

Sharin Jacob has received the 2017 David E. Eskey Memorial Award from CATESOL, a professional organization serving teachers of English to speakers of other languages in California.

In advising Sharin of her award, CATESOL wrote, "The Selection Committee was unanimous in their support of your proposal for the 2017 David E. Eskey Memorial Award. Your background as an ESL high school teacher, graduate student researcher and now doctoral student has provided you with first-hand knowledge of the reading/literacy needs of language learners in California Schools. Most exciting is your focus on computational thinking in the language classroom to develop multiple literacies for English Language learners. Your experience in STEM, which is a burgeoning field, will pay big dividends for the students involved." 

Sharin received her award in October 2017 at the annual CATESOL conference. At the 2018 CATESOL Conference she delivered a 45-minutes presentation on her research.