November 20, 2009
Pa Lee, a junior in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, is the recipient of a $1,000 Sue W. Hancock Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity Award (SEED) and was recognized at the 2009 Equity and Diversity Breakfast on November 19, 2009. She is working on a double major in business and marketing education and human resource development along with a leadership minor.
November 18, 2009
Dr. Juergen Konczak, professor in biomechanics, has published an article in the November issue of Journal of Motor Behavior:
Konczak J, Corcos DM, Horak F, Poizner H, Shapiro M, Tuite P, Volkmann J, Maschke M. Proprioception and motor control in Parkinson's disease. J Mot Behav. 2009 Nov;41(6):543-52.
The article originated from an interdisciplinary University-sponsored workshop on Proprioception and Motor Control in Parkinson's Disease that Prof. Konczak organized in September 2008 and represents the collective expertise from several national and international experts in this area.
David W. Johnson, professor of Educational Psychology, was awarded the Jeffrey Rubin Theory to Practice Award, which is cosponsored by the International Association for Conflict Management and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. It is given to unique individuals whose professional contributions demonstrate a strong competence in (a) theory development and empirical research, (b) ability to move effectively and skillfully between theory and practice in their professional activities, (c) history of conducting rigorous research that has important practical implications, and (d) history of translating findings in a manner that makes them accessible to students and practitioners. Prof. Johnson's nomination was described as "an exemplar of the best the field has to offer in terms of theory, practice, and their intersection." The award will be presented at the association's annual conference in Boston in June 2010.
November 17, 2009
Whether it's capturing lectures for review after class, providing students with supplemental class materials, or assigning students video or audio assignments - multimedia is hotter than ever. Good news! At CEHD Academic Technology Services we're now offering new ways to support the college's growing multimedia needs. First, a new way to request assistance with your video needs and second, the launch of our Innovations in Educational Technology - Brown Bag Series which kicks off next Thursday, November 19, 2009 with a presentation on digitally capturing class content. Details follow below.
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November 13, 2009
Curriculum and Instruction graduate students Danny Hoyt, Muffet Trout, Kathryn Engebretson, and Jason Martel received news that their American Education Research Association (AERA) symposium proposal, organized by Misty Sato, an associate professor in the department, was accepted to the Self-Study SIG. They will present their self-studies in teacher education which focus on the process of becoming, the role of ethical care, identity and ethos development, and the role of subject matter discipline. Discussant Todd Dinkleman will critique and compare the findings with a university-based model of student teacher supervision preparation that uses a collaborative inquiry approach.
Tyler Johnson, senior kinesiology major, is profiled in a full-length UMNews feature this week. Johnson has managed to juggle family, a business, an internship, and military service while attending school.
Read the full article: Man of many hats.
November 11, 2009
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, was quoted in The New York Times on November 11 in an article titled, For All the Wrong Reasons, Women's Soccer Is Noticed. The piece follows up on the suspension of college soccer player Elizabeth Lambert of the University of New Mexico after she engaged in shoving, punching, tripping and yanking an opponent down by the ponytail November 5 in a 1-0 loss to Brigham Young.
Kane remarked, "I think women being physically aggressive and violent is, in many ways, the last boundary to break ... I think you'll see snippets, but I don't think you'll see the same kind of behavior as men. In the broader social context, we don't allow women to engage in that kind of behavior. There would be a pushback."
Tucker Center Associate Director, Nicole LaVoi, was also quoted on the same subject in WCCO's Good Question: Why Are We Drawn To Women Fighting?.
LaVoi stated, "Women get national news sports coverage when they behave outside of the societal norms for a woman."
Michael Goh, associate professor in Educational Psychology, along with Monica Froman, Lidan Gu, Ian MacFarlane, Morgan Paldron, Anna Roth, Adam Sumner, and Erin VandenLangenberg (all Educational Psychology/Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Ph.D. students) were discussion facilitators at the seventh annual It's Time To Talk Forums on Race, November 10, 2009. Over 1000 community members gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center to discuss race as part of the YWCA's on-going mission to foster cross-cultural understanding and strengthen our communities' commitment to work against racism.
November 10, 2009
Diversity Dialogues hosts Tim Lensmire, associate professor in Curriculum and Instruction.
Tuesday 11/24/2009
12:00 p.m. - 1 p.m.
40 Peik Hall
Please bring a bag lunch if you like!
White Americans have, from the first, hopelessly confused the real Negroes and Indians, with whom they must for the sake of social survival and civil peace learn to live, with certain projections of their own deepest minds, aspects of their own psychic life with which precisely they find it impossible to live. —Leslie Fiedler
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Dr. Arthur Leon, exercise science professor, has been invited to chair two sessions at the 2009 American Heart Association's Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, FL, November 14 to 18. The sessions are entitled "Exercise as an Intervention to Improve Health and Functioning in Patients with CVD," and "Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training." Dr. Leon also will give a presentation to summarize the sessions.
This past weekend Martha Bigelow, associate professor of second languages and cultures education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, together with Elaine Tarone, professor and director of CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition), and Kit Hansen, lecturer in Writing Studies, gave a keynote address at the MinneTESOL conference about their research with Somali teens on second language acquisition.
Jill Watson, a doctoral candidate in second languages and cultures education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected as an expert consultant to the Aligned Literacy Project sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). Her area of expertise is initial literacy development by English language learners with limited formal schooling. Expert consultants to the project will work to align literacy instruction practices in the state, and will produce 4 webinars to serve as platforms for professional development and school literacy instruction design.
November 9, 2009
Associate Professor Kendall King (Curriculum and Instruction, Second Languages and Cultures Education) is traveling to Brasilia, Brasil in November to deliver a keynote address for the Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics. Her topic is language policy and language teaching for a plural and just society.
The October issue of Multivariate Behavioral Research contains three articles by faculty, graduate students, and alumni of Educational Psychology's Quantitative Methods in Education (QME) track: one on a logistic regression analysis of growth/change by alumnus Jeffrey Harring (now at the University of Maryland), one on a hierarchical regression analysis of patterns in test item responses by alumnus Steve Culpepper (now at theUniversity of Colorado, Denver), and one on structural equation modeling of multivariate score patterns by Professor Mark L. Davison, alumnus Se-Kang Kim (now at Fordham University) and graduate student Catherine Close.
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, presented research with doctoral student Lindsay Kipp and collaborator David Goodman (Simon Fraser University) at the Sport Canada Research Initiative Conference in Ottawa on November 4. The title of the presentation was, Unsportsmanlike aggression in youth hockey: Attitudes, perceived social approval, situational temptation, and role models. The annual conference brings together academics and policymakers to translate research in an effort to enhance the quality of physical activity participation of Canadian youth and adults. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded the research.
American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
American College of Sports Medicine
American Educational Research Association
APA Division 15 - Educational Psychology
College of Education and Human Development
Council for Exceptional Children
Council on Social Work Education
Letter - Ambiguous Loss - NYTimes.com
National Association for Child Development
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Association of Social Workers
National Council on Family Relations
National Education Association
National Human Resources Association
National Recreation and Park Association
North American Society for Sport Management
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