Doctoral programs in the College of Education build leadership by combining high levels of  expectation with exceptional mentoring and support.

Rodney E. Rohde, a doctoral student in the College of Education majoring in Adult, Professional, and Community Education, has been awarded the 2007 Scientific Research Award by the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) in San Diego, California. Through Rodney Rohde's leadership in research, undergraduate students in Texas State's College of Health Professions gained valuable research experience and achieved excellence. ASCLS recognizes only one project in the entire United States each year for outstanding Clinical Lab Science research.

Rohde and his co-authors received the award for their work on a project titled “Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a Texas Jail Population”. The research will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Correctional Healthcare.

The project was a collaborative effort with Marilyn Felkner and colleagues from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). The research was supported by a research enhancement grant from Texas State and from DSHS sources.

Other Samples of Graduate Student Research:

• Change and learning in the workplace: A perspective formed through the conceptual frameworks of an adult transition theory and an adult learning theory, Richard A Parsells
  
  
• Beginning Teachers, Resilience and Retention, Linda A. Combes Malcom
  
  
• Comparison of Two Types of Concurrent Respiratory Resistance Training Devices on Measures of Physiological Performance, Perception of Health-related Quality of Life and Self-efficacy in Wheelchair Rugby Athletes, Lyn Gorbett Litchke
  
  
• The professional learning community: The self-directed learning of teachers and the practices of professional community, Chulsub Lew