The Morningside College Graduate Program in Education recently presented its first Research Fellowship Award to Julie Flynn, an art teacher in Hartford, Conn.

The Morningside College Graduate Program in Education recently presented its first Research Fellowship Award to Julie Flynn, an art teacher in Hartford, Conn.

Flynn will study the effects of art integration on student learning outcomes. Art integration is the process of combining art education with traditional subjects.

The fellowship is open to graduate education students who have completed Morningside’s Education Research course. The recipient will receive support from a faculty mentor and $1,750 to fund research or travel to a professional conference for presentation.

“The graduate program is promoting a more rigorous academic standard with regard to our research requirement,” said Dharma Jairam, the assistant professor in the graduate education program who created the fellowship and will mentor the recipients. “Some of our students produce high level work that should be published in academic journals or presented at professional conferences.”