{"id":28024,"date":"2025-09-23T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28024"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:13:58","slug":"cassie-winters-awarded-merit-switzer-research-fellowship-for-doctoral-dissertation-research","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/cassie-winters-awarded-merit-switzer-research-fellowship-for-doctoral-dissertation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Winters awarded Merit Switzer Research Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research"},"template":"","news_categories":[11,14],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-28024","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-news","news_categories-student-scholarships-and-awards"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/academics\/disability-and-human-development\/phd-in-disability-studies\/meet-our-students\/student-profiles\/#cassandra-winters\">Cassandra Winters<\/a>, OTR\/L and doctoral candidate in disability studies, was awarded a prestigious Merit Switzer Research Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research for her dissertation study titled, &#8220;Postpartum Mental Health Experiences of Women with Disabilities: A Constructivist, Grounded-Theory Approach.&#8221; She is guided in her research by her advisor, Susan Magasi, and committee members, Sarah Parker Harris, Aly Patsavas, Kristin Berg and Sueli Brill from Ohio State University.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Susan Magasi","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28049,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024\/revisions\/28049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=28024"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}