Funded Research Co-Principal Investigator Career Advancement for Paraprofessionals in Education (CAPE) (2000 - 2005). Grant funded by the US Department of Education, approximate value $1,000,000 over 5 years. The goal of program CAPE is to create and maintain a program to train bilingual educators. As one of the three Co-PIs in the project, I have been in charge of the support services component of the program, overseeing the following aspects: mentoring, professional development seminars and workshops, the newsletter, development of the CAPE website, creation and maintenance of CAPE library and preparation for PRAXIS. With Dr. Aida Nevárez, I have also developed and directed the Linguistic Diversity Academy for the faculty at the CITE department. The Academy allows faculty to learn more about working with students from diverse linguistic backgrounds and promotes infusion of linguistic diversity issues into undergraduate and graduate education courses. Program Director Center of International Business Education and Research (CIBER) (2002 - 2010). Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University. Grant funded by the US Department of Education, approximate value $1,100,000 over 4 years. Grant proposal developed jointly with colleagues from Temple University Fox School of Business and Management. My role in the project is to direct and supervise the language component of the program. In this capacity, I have created Temple’s Virtual Language and Linguistics Center and organized the two ongoing lecture series, Temple Faculty Research Highlights and Distinguished Guest Speaker Series, as well as professional development meetings and brown bag lunches for Temple’s language faculty. Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) (2002 - 2006). Center for Language Acquisition, Pennsylvania State University. Grant funded by the US Department of Education, approximate value $1,392, 000 over 4 years. Grant proposal developed jointly with colleagues from Pennsylvania State University. My role in the project is to direct a study investigating advanced proficiency in American learners of Russian and to develop materials for teaching Russian at the intermediate and advanced levels. Principal Investigator Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders (SHINE). 2002. Grant awarded for incorporation of project SHINE in TESOL courses as a service-learning component in the Spring of 2002.