External Funding

• 2010-2014. Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (Role: Project Co-director, with Gabriela Appel). U.S. Department of Education Title VI Award ($1,235,000 for all projects in CALPER).
• 2008-2011. Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Language Proficiency in French, Russian and Chinese (Role: Investigator; PIs: James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner). U.S. Department of Education ($321,000).
• 2008-2011. Rereading Our Past: The Cognitive Demands of Reading and Reading Comprehension, 1890-2005 (Role: Investigator; PI: David A. Gamson). Spencer Foundation ($468,750).
• 2006-2010. Assessing Development of Advanced Proficiency through Learner Corpora (Role: Project Co-director, with Michael McCarthy). U.S. Department of Education Title VI Award ($1,252,000 for all 10 projects in CALPER).

Internal Funding for Student Projects

• 2009. Using L2 Learner English to Impove English-Chinese Machine Translation. (Role: Faculty Advisor; Student Advised: Chris Lengerich). Undergradute Summer Discovery Grant ($2,500).
• 2007-2008. Analyzing the Real-World Strength between Geographically-Distinct Node Clusters on Facebook's Social Graph (Role: Faculty Advisor; Student Advised: Alan deLevie). Penn State President's Fund for Undergraduate Research ($500).