Congratulations to graduate student, Lorena Alarcón, who has received a SLATE Doctoral Dissertation Grant to support her dissertation project, titled "Social justice in language assessment: A validation study to examine students' sociolinguistic literacy." The funding will support her qualitative data analysis for her mixed-methods study using MAXQDA software.  With SLATE as an interdisciplinary program that spans 3 Colleges, it is a great honor that her work has been recognized in this way. Congratulations, Lorena!