Professor Awarded NICHD Career Development Award
Buena Vista University has announced that Dr. Amy Barth, asst. professor of education, literacy education, is a recipient of the highly competitive K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Buena Vista University has announced that Dr. Amy Barth, asst. professor of education, literacy education, is a recipient of the highly competitive K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
The award is a grant which provides support for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in the fields of biomedical and behavior research that also includes translational research. Barth’s award is the first grant that BVU has received from NICHD and represents BVU’s dedication to research-driven educational initiatives and programs designed to increase the competitiveness of BVU students for nationally ranked graduate programs.
Barth is a 1995 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia where she majored in communication sciences and disorders. She earned her master’s degree from the University of South Dakota in 1997, and a doctorate in from the University of Kansas in 2006. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in advanced statistics and methodology from the University of Houston in 2007. Barth has authored more than 30 publications in reading assessment, effectiveness of reading interventions, and reading-related processes that support reading comprehension among school age students.