Goldstick Fellows and Marissa Zelinger Research Awardees
The Goldstick Doctoral Fellowship extends a $10,000 grant to Special Education doctoral students to support them in completing their research. Since the fellowship's inception, over $500,000 has been awarded to exceptional doctoral students in the College of Education at the University of Illinois.
The Marissa Zelinger Research Awards recognize outstanding research by faculty-student research teams. Teams that display exemplary research in communication disorders are eligible for a $4,000 award toward their work. To date, nearly $40,000 has been awarded to research teams at the University of Illinois as part of this initiative.
Goldstick Fellows
- Alexandria Barkhimer (2025, 2024)
- Rebekah Bosely (2025, 2022, 2020)
- Sangjee Ha (2025)
- Kai-Yun (Karen) Huang (2025, 2024)
- Daniela Fanta Alarcon (2024, 2023, 2021)
- Megan Best (2024, 2023)
- Melanie Martin (2023, 2022)
- Christy Yoon (2023, 2022)
- Ricky Price (2023)
- Crystal Williams (2023)
- Adriana (Kaori) Terol (2022, 2021)
- Nicole (Nikki) Donnelly (2021)
- Emily Malouf (2021)
- Rebecca Folkerts (2021)
- James Donggeun Lee (2020, 2019)
- Rebecca Elizabeth Hacker (2020, 2018)
- Ban Sleiman Haidar (2020)
- Laura Imming (2019)
- Shari Hopkins (2018)
- Julia Snider (2018)
- Yusuf Akamoglu (2017, 2016)
- Veronica Velasco (2017, 2015)
- Magen Rooney (2017, 2016)
- Moon Chung (2016, 2014)
- Jamie Pearson (2015)
- Maysoon Biller (2014)
- Charis Price (2013, 2011)
- Melinda Snodgrass (2013, 2012)
- Aparicio Bentancourt (2012)
- Lori Erbederis Meyer (2011, 2009)
- Hasan Zaghlawan (2010)
- Kim Woloweic-Fisher (2010, 2009)
- Andrea Ruppar (2009)
- Mary-Kelsey Coletto (2007)
Marissa Zelinger Research Awardees
- 2025: Dr. Jessica Hardy and Fatmnur Onder
- 2024, 2023: Dr. Michele Schutz and Megan Best
- 2022: Dr. Hedda Meadan and Christy Yoon
- 2021: Dr. Jessica Hardy and Kaori Terol
- 2020: Dr. Michaelene Ostrosky and Catherine Cheung
- 2019: Dr. Hedda Meadan and James Lee
- 2018: Dr. Michaelene Ostrosky and Hsiu-wen Yang
- 2017: Dr. James Halle, Magen Rooney, and Dr. Moon Chung
- 2016: Dr. Meghan Burke and Chung eun Lee
- 2015: Dr. Stacy Dymond and Sarah Ballard
- 2014: Dr. Hedda Meadan, Melinda Snodgrass, Jamie Pearson, Moon Chung, Yusuf Akamogly