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Rangel has earned the University of Houston College of Education Collaborative Research Award (2022), Teaching Excellence Award (2021), and Research Excellence Award (2020), along with AERA Division H awards for program evaluation (2014) and planning/policy/management research (2011). As principal investigator or co-principal investigator, she has secured grants exceeding $2 million from the National Science Foundation (e.g., DRK-12 $374,000, 2014; ITEST $739,486, 2022), Spencer Foundation ($49,767, 2017), and university funds. Select publications include "A review of the research on principal turnover" (Review of Educational Research, 2018), "Teachers’ sensemaking and data use implementation in science classrooms" (Education and Urban Society, 2019), "A typology of high school students’ science and math motivational beliefs" (Science Education, 2020), "Student engagement in an online STEM afterschool program during COVID" (Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2022), and "Variability in mentoring relationships in an afterschool STEM mentoring program" (International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2022). Her scholarship, cited over 2,077 times on Google Scholar, impacts STEM equity, leadership preparation, and policy. She serves on the University of Houston Faculty Senate Research Committee.