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Katie Berry

Publication

Paley R.S., Berry K.E., Liu J.M., Sanan T.T. (2009) Diastereoselective intramolecular pinacol couplings of sulfinyl iron(0) diene complexes. J Org Chem, 74, 1611-20.

Kovaks E.W., Hooker J.M., Romanini D.W., Holder P.G., Berry K.E., Francis M.B. (2007) Dual- surface-modified bacteriophage MS2 as an ideal scaffold for a viral capsid-based drug delivery system. Bioconj Chem, 18, 1140-7.

Fraser C.S., Berry K.E., Hershey J.W., Doudna J.A..(2007) eIF3j is located in the decoding center of the human 40S ribosomal subunit. Mol Cell, 26, 811-9.

Katherine Binder

Grant

Received a supplement to her grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (subaward from the University of Georgia) for “Examining the Processes and Outcomes of Reading Comprehension (EXPO-SWD). The project is in its sixth year. (2022)

Kathy Binder  received an award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for “R15 A Multi-skills Approach for Low Literate Adult Learners.” The project is for three years.

National Institutes of Health

Publication

Binder, K. S., Magnus, B., Lee, C., & Gilbert Cote, N. (2015). To tell a morphologically complex tale: Investigating the story-telling abilities of children and adults with low literacy skills. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 10.1007/s11145-015-9560-5.

Fracasso L.E., Bangs, K., & Binder, K.S. (2014). The contributions of phonological and morphological awareness to literacy skills in the adult basic education population. Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Lee, C.S., & Binder, K.S. (2014). Atypically deviant or appropriately delayed? An investigation into semantic and phonological processing in Williams Syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

Talwar, A., Gilbert Cote, N., & Binder, K.S. (2014). Investigating Predictors of Spelling Ability for Adults with Low Literacy Skills. Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy,Secondary, and Basic Education.

Zawoyski, A. M., Ardoin, S. P., & Binder, K. S. (2014). Using eye tracking to observe differential effects of repeated readings for second-grade students as a function of achievement level. Reading Research Quarterly, n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1002/rrq.91