Contact me at casteld[at]purdue[dot]edu if you would like to see any other materials that are not publicly available. 

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Awards & Fellowships

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2023

• Outstanding Publication Award: Book Chapter, with your chapter entitled “Mobile Learning for Emergency Situations: Four Design Cases from Latin America” – Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Culture, Learning, and Technology (CLT) Division

• Early Career Symposium Awardee – Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Research & Theory Division.

• LASER Institute Scholar (Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research) – North Carolina State University ($1500).

• Somos Purdue Award – Latino Cultural Center, Purdue University.

• Dean’s Graduate Student Outstanding Scholarship Award – Purdue University ($1,000).

• Women in Network Science Collabathon – Northeastern University (Highly selective). 

• Professional Development Grant – Purdue Graduate Student Government ($570).

• Top 10 Good COVID Reads by National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL): “The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review” https://nidl.blog/2023/01/18/top-10-covid-19-articles-published-in-2022-several-major-literature-reviews/

2022 

• NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship ($27,500). Applying to Fellowships is incredibly daunting. I couldn't have move forward with mine without the generosity of previous fellows who shared their materials publicly... because [sometimes] even emailing others to ask for help sounds like a massive task. So, here you have my materials. 

  • Check out the awesome proposals of Alberto​ Guzman (method proposal) and Chris Bennet (policy focused proposal).

• Bilsland Fellowship – Purdue University Graduate School. 

• Summer Institute of Computational Social Science – University of Pennsylvania ($1200).

• Graduate Student Seminar – Division C American Educational Research Association ($275).

2021

• McJulien Graduate Student Scholarship Award – Association of Educational Communications and Technology ($500).

• Graduate Student Mentoring and Networking Seminary – Association of Educational Communications and Technology Division of Distance Learning ($240).

• 2021 UPCEA Region Excellence in Instructional Design Award – University Professional and Continuing Education Association. This award was received as part of a team effort. 

• Renewal of P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2021 - 2022 ($7,000).

• Frank DeBruicker Award on Educational Technology – Purdue University ($2000).

2020

• COVID-19 Impact Scholarship – Purdue University ($1,000).

• P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2020 - 2021 ($7,500).

• People’s Choice Best Online Poster Award  for work titled “Learner-learner interaction over time: A network-analysis.” Colombia Student Association at Purdue (CSAP) ($100).

2019

• Fall Travel Grant ($400) - Colombian Student Association at Purdue.

• 1st Place in Design and DeL Best Practice Award 2019, AECT 2019 for the project “PoRTAL: Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning.”

2016

• Undergraduate Research Experience Purdue – Colombia ($5,000).

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Grants

• 2021 – 2022: CILMAR Seed Grant Program – Intercultural Training: Evaluation of Digital Badges for College of Education Teaching Assistants ($2000) Co-P.I.: Adeoye, T., Cabrera, V., Lolkus, M., Castellanos-Reyes, D., & Strait, M.). 

• 2020 – 2022: Determining Best Practices in Higher Education post COVID-19 Grant – Purdue University ($46,792). Co-P.I.: Richardson, J., Castellanos-Reyes, D. & Duha, S.

• 2020 – 2021: Supporting a Diverse and Inclusive College of Education through Digital Badges and Intercultural Training – Purdue University ($5000) Co-P.I.: Strait, M., Castellanos-Reyes, D., Lolkus, M., & Adeoye, T.