Undergraduate Researcher of the Year 2009
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services

 Tanja Jensen, a Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education major, has worked during the past year with Dr. Sandi Gillam, whose work focuses on assessment and intervention issues for children with language impairments. Tanja has demonstrated outstanding performance as an undergraduate research assistant, participating in numerous research activities and completing an Honors Thesis while maintaining a grade point average of 3.82. Tanja has been instrumental in developing assessment materials as well as collecting, coding, and analyzing data for five different research projects.  She has played a valuable role in research projects involving assessment and intervention with English Language Learners.  Tanja’s work was recently highlighted as part of the Research on Capitol Hill (January 2009) Symposium in Salt Lake City.  In April, she will travel to Wisconsin to present her paper on Narrative Intervention with English Language Learners at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.