January 28, 2025
As the winners of the Sage Teaching category, Asian American Research Center (AARC) faculty affliate Abigail De Kosnik, Jingyi Li, and AARC graduate student Jaclyn Zhou have been awarded a Sage Concept Grant for the Media Education Research Lab (MERL). MERL developed a Diversity Scores method to teach students how to critically assess diversity in media by tagging texts for bias, analyzing audience reception, and scoring diversity. The grant will be used to fund a website with resources for instructors and publish student reviews to support media literacy education. The Sage Concept Grant program funds innovative products and tools aimed at enhancing social science education and research.