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Congratulations Nicole Hidalgo!

Nicole Hidalgo, a doctoral candidate in education, has received two prestigious dissertation awards to support her work with disadvantaged youth in urban high schools. Hidalgo won a $20,000 UC/Accord dissertation fellowship, as well as a $10,000 fellowship from the State Farm Companies Foundation--one of only three such awards offered nationally, according to education professor Judith Scott The State Farm award is designed to stimulate research in education and to increase the number of education faculty in U.S. colleges and universities. The UC/Accord fellowship is open to all UC graduate students for research that will "inform Californians' efforts to replace prevailing patterns of schooling inequality and disparities in access to higher education with equitable conditions and outcomes for children from all sectors of the state."

http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/grapes/detail.asp?recordno=531

http://www.statefarm.com/about/part_spos/grants/doctoral.asp