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Julie Milligan Hughes Wins First Rickel Award

Julie Milligan Hughes, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, received the first Annette Urso Rickel Dissertation Award. The new $1,000 award supports dissertation research on public policy, which has the potential to improve services for children and families facing psychosocial issues.

Ms. Hughes dissertation project, African American and >European American Adolescents Attitudes toward Affirmative Action and School Desegregation Policies is designed to examine the relation of four major factors to adolescents attitudes toward race-related policies:

• racial attitudes,
• political orientation,
• awareness of historical and contemporary racism, and
• knowledge of interracial disparities.

To learn more about the Rickel Award Click here for more information.

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