Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction), was invited to participate in the National Technology Leadership Summit (NTLS) in Washington, D.C. where her recently published paper on bridging informal and formal learning with participatory media was featured.

Greenhow, C. (2008). Connecting informal and formal learning experiences in the age of participatory media: Commentary on Bull et al. (2008). Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 8(2). Retrieved from http://www.citejournal.org/vol8/iss3/editorial/article1.cfm.

The National Technology Leadership Summit is a select group of federal policymakers, corporate representatives, nonprofit leaders, journal editors, and scholars who convene annually to draft field-shaping recommendations for research, policy, and programs to accelerate the meaningful impact of digital technologies in K-16 and graduate education. Christine has been active in helping draft a new funding program which has been included in the Higher Education Act Reauthorization bill with sponsorship of Congresswoman Betty McCollum and is working with colleagues to shape the research agenda stemming from this meeting.

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The Minnesota Minority Education Partnership (MMEP) conference will be held at Coffman Memorial Union from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on November 6. This year's conference is entitled "2008 State of Students of Color & American Indian Students." For more information about the conference, including confirmed attendees and break-out session descriptions, visit http://www.mmep.net/Conference.html.

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The CEHD Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC) cordially invites you to attend its fall program on Monday, October 27, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Campus Club (rooms ABC).

The program features a panel presentation on Women on the Court and in the Classroom. Panelists are: Professor Maureen Weiss and Dr. Nicole LaVoi (Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport); U of M Women’s Basketball Coach Pam Borton and CEHD student athlete Ashley Ellis Milan; Lea Olsen, U of M alumna, former student athlete, reporter and host with the Timberwolves; and moderator Barbara Stephens Foster, CEHD alumna and WPLC member.

The event is free and guests are welcome to attend. Learn about the WPLC and the support it provides to CEHD students, staff, and faculty. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine and meet CEHD alumni and staff. The program will begin at 6 p.m.

Please RSVP by October 17 to Sara Beyer at sbeyer@umn.edu.

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Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Place: Cowles Auditorium/Hubert Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota/West Bank Campus, 301 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Cost: Free!

Coordinating productive family visits that are safe AND relationship building is complicated. Family Alternatives, a private foster care agency, will present their research and best practice findings after a two year pilot project on family visiting. Through qualitative interviews in two Minnesota counties, this unique project captured the voices of children in foster care, birth parents, foster parents and social workers. Key elements of helping families maintain and strengthen their relationships while living apart were explored and an interactive family visiting guide was developed based on the information gathered.

Presenters
Heidi Brinig, Program Director at Families Together, Providence, Rhode Island
Familyconnect Pilot Project Overview and Research Findings
Wendy Negaard; Familyconnect Pilot Project Coordinator
Ande Nesmith, Ph.D.; Senior Researcher Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago

Panel Discussion
Facilitated by Deena McMahon, LICSW
Birth parents, foster parents, and youth in foster care will share their experiences with family visits and what helped them maintain healthy family connections while living apart.

To register, please fill out the registration form online at http://cehd.umn.edu/ssw/cascw. Click on the link on the banner under the pictures!

This forum has been developed under the auspices of: Federal Title IV-E Funding, Minnesota Department of Human Services (Contract #439481), The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the School of Social Work in the College of Education and Human Development.

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Elizabeth Spletzer, kinesiology education specialist and coordinator of the PE initial licensure program, was awarded the prestigious Eloise M. Jaeger Award by the University of Minnesota Women's Physical Education Alumnae Association at their annual breakfast September 27.

The award was presented in recognition of Liz's outstanding contributions to the physical education profession through teaching, advising, and supervising students preparing for teaching licensure and advanced degrees in physical education, and honored her "exceptional level of dedication, leadership, and service" to her students and colleagues.

Eloise Jaeger, who passed away in 2007, was a leading advocate for women’s physical education and women’s intercollegiate athletics at the University, and was instrumental in increasing girls’ and women’s participation in sport and physical activity.

Congratulations, Liz!

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi will be part of the Sport & Morality Symposium at the annual Association of Moral Education conference held in November at the University of Notre Dame.

Her talk is titled "Helping Create a Moral Climate on Youth Sport Sidelines: Reducing Parental Background Anger" and reflects her current work with the Minnesota Youth Sport Research Consortium (MNYSRC) pertaining to youth sport parents.

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Professor Karen Seashore (Educational Policy and Administration) comments on the benefits of professional learning communities to educator development and student success.

Group approach to learning is heralded
Jackson City Patriot (Mich.) Sept. 12, 2008

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With Wall Street crippled, the housing market in shambles and the cost of living rising, American families are facing some uncertainty and need thriftier ways to manage their finances. Family social science associate professor Cathy Solheim says an effective first step is to get creative and budget with help from regular old envelopes.

Download the fully produced :90 feature or download the raw interview audio.

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Professor Tom Stoffregen (Kinesiology) has had two articles accepted for publication and three recent publications on findings from research supported by his NIH, NSF, and/or European grants.

• Stoffregen, T. A., Villard, S., Kim, C., Ito, K., & Bardy, B. G. (2008). Coupling of head and body movement with motion of the audible environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, in press.
• Faugloire, E., Stoffregen, T. A., & Bardy, B. G. (2008). (De)Stabilization of required and spontaneous postural dynamics with learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, in press.
• Bonnet, C. T., Faugloire, E. M., Riley, M. A., Bardy, B. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2008). Self-induced motion sickness and body movement during passive restraint. Ecological Psychology, 20, 121-145.
• Stoffregen, T. A., Faugloire, E., Yoshida, K, Flanagan, M., & Merhi, O. (2008). Motion sickness and postural sway in console video games. Human Factors, 50, 322-331.
• Villard, S., Flanagan, M. B., Albanese, G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2008). Postural instability and motion sickness in a virtual moving room. Human Factors, 50, 332-345.

Tom published with current and former graduate students Ken Yoshida, Cedric Bonnet, and Omar Merhi, and postdoctoral associates Sebastien Villard, Moira Flanagan, and Elise Faugloire.

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The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport has created a blog to respond to Michael Sokolove's book, Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sport, which was released in 2008 along with a companion article that appeared in the May 11 issue of the New York Times Magazine.

The premise of the book asserts that “[the] immutable facts of anatomy and physiology� cause girls to incur significantly more sport injuries (e.g., ACL tears, concussions) than their male counterparts, resulting in what Sokolove terms a female “injury epidemic.� As a response to the underlying premise (and purported facts) of Warrior Girls, the Tucker Center felt it necessary to provide a scholarly critique from relevant academic disciplines, which included in its 2008 Fall Newsletter.

The Tucker Center's blog, "Reacting to Warrior Girls," also contains those perspectives and invites comments and responses from the public.

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Professor Bill Doherty (Family Social Science) comments on overscheduled children in a recent Washington Post article.

For Some Busy Kids, It's All Good
Washington Post (D.C.) Sept. 28, 2008

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has published an article on diet revision in overweight children.

Kaufman, C. L., Kaiser, D. R., Kelly, A. S., Dengel, J. L., Steinberger, J., & Dengel, D. R. (2008). Diet revision in overweight children: Effect on autonomic and vascular function. Clinical Autonomic Research, 18, 105-108.

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On Wednesday, October 8, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., human rights activist Martin BuÌ?tora will lead a discussion in 250 Wulling Hall. Refreshments will be served.

Mr. BuÌ?tora is currently Honorary President of the Institute for Public Affairs and Program Director of the European Integration and Transatlantic Relations program. Mr. BuÌ?tora is the former Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States (the Slovak Republic's first), and presided over the admission of Slovakia to NATO. Upon his return he ran for the President of Slovakia. He is a known human rights advocate, and served during the Czechoslovak period as adviser to President Havel on Human Rights. In 1999 the National Endowment for Democracy, based in Washington, D.C., awarded him the Democracy Service Medal. In 2000 he received the JaÌ?n PapaÌ?nek medal, and in 2002 he was awarded a Celebration of Freedom Award by the American Jewish Committee.

For further information about this event contact Christopher Johnstone at john4810@umn.edu.

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With Wall Street crippled, the housing market in shambles and the cost of living rising, American families are facing some uncertainty and need thriftier ways to manage their finances. University of Minnesota family social science associate professor Catherine Solheim says an effective first step is to get creative and budget with help from regular old envelopes. Listen to audio: Take Control While Wall Street Doesn't

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The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) Personnel Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the ICI 2008 annual awards.

Future Leader Award – Matthew Bogenschutz

Excellence and Community Building Award – “Changing Landscapes Visiting Artists with Disabilities Project� committee: Megan Dushin, Cliff Poetz, Pat Salmi, Derek Nord, and Melissa Critchley-Rodriquez

These awards are given to ICI students and employees who are have demonstrated a commitment to carrying out the mission of ICI within ICI, CEHD, and the community. These individuals have shown exceptional leadership in this area and will be honored at the upcoming ICI Fall Kickoff on October 21.

Congratulations to all of the award winners!

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Professor Jeffrey Edleson (School of Social Work) has been appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court's Study Group on Joint Custody.

The study group is looking at legislative changes regarding Minnesota's custody laws. At the group’s first meeting on September 22, Jeffrey presented on "Assessing Social Science Research."

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Gabrielle Hurd, an undergraduate student in the Department of Family Social Science, has been invited to participate in HECUA's Spring 2009 Metro Urban Studies term.

She is examining issues of poverty and inequality in the Twin Cities. She will work with nonprofit organizations, community activists, and politicians (among others) who will provide her with a context for understanding her readings/studies about economics, housing systems, education, welfare, government policies, urban sprawl, regional race and class segregation, and institutional discrimination.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) is an organization of 19 liberal arts colleges, universities, and associations dedicated to education for social justice. HECUA programs combine a unique approach to classroom-based work with an experiential, reflective, and critical look at the important social issues of our program sites. Their classrooms combine discussion, readings, and reflection with ongoing field experience through internships, field-work, and research projects. Because social problems and social change are complex issues, their approach to understanding them draws on multiple academic disciplines, the integration of theoretical material with experiential learning, and ongoing holistic reflection.

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Professor Sharon Danes (Family Social Science) discusses the emotional ramifications of a sudden loss of income.

Learning to reach lower for happiness
International Herald Tribune (France) Sept. 19, 2008

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Gabrielle Hurd, FSoS undergraduate student, has been invited to participate in HECUA's Spring 2009 Metro Urban Studies term. She is examining issues of poverty and inequality in the Twin Cities. She will work with non-profit organizations, community activists, and politicians (among others) who will provide her with a context for understanding her readings/studies about economics, housing systems, education, welfare, government policies, urban sprawl, regional race and class segregation, and institutional discrimination.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) an organization of 19 liberal arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to education for social justice. HECUA programs combine a unique approach to classroom-based work with an experiential, reflective, and critical look at the important social issues of our program sites. Our classrooms combine discussion, readings, and reflection with on-going field experience through internships, field-work, and research projects. Because social problems and social change are complex issues, our approach to understanding them draws on multiple academic disciplines, the integration of theoretical material with experiential learning, and ongoing holistic reflection.

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A recent news article discusses research by Professor Philip Zelazo and Associate Professor Stephanie Carlson (Institute on Child Development) studying the development of executive function in children.

U study teaching kids to retrain thoughts
Star Tribune (Minn.) Sept. 22, 2008

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Sharon Danes, an economist and professor at the University of Minnesota Family Social Science, who advises family businesses, is quoted in the International Herald Tribune. Sharon likens the emotional reaction to a suddenly reduced income to the loss cycle in mourning a death. Read full story

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) comments on the benefits of technology in a recent KARE-11 story.

Teen Tech Experiment: Can teens survive without their cell phones?
KARE-11 (Minn.) Sept. 17, 2008

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"Making the New Student Ratings of Teaching (SRTs) Work for You" is the theme for the Fall Teaching Enrichment Series.

Three stand-alone seminars invite faculty and instructors to examine the impact of regularly gathering and analyzing student feedback to improve learning and document teaching effectiveness. Light food and drinks will be provided. Each seminar will be held at West Bank, East Bank, and St. Paul locations. For more information or to register, visit the Center for Teaching and Learning.

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Traci LaLiberte, director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, and associate professor Liz Lightfoot (Social Work) presented two papers at the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities 13th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.

The papers were titled "Child welfare worker competency in working with parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities" and "Disability as grounds for termination of parental rights in state laws."

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The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Student Paper Contest.

Papers must have a central theme of social work values or social work ethics. The two winning papers will be published in JSWVE. Deadline is March 15, 2009. Download full contest details [.pdf].

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Professor Jürgen Konczak (Kinesiology) has just published two journal articles.

• "Increased basal-ganglia activation performing a non-dystonia-related task in focal dystonia" was published in European Journal of Neurology, 2008, vol. 15, pp. 831-838. Authors are M.Obermann, O.Yaldizi, A. de Greiff, J. Konczak, M.L. Lachenmayer, F. Tumczak, A.R. Buhl, N. Putzki, J. Vollmer-Haase, E.R. Gizewski, H.C. Diener, and M. Maschke.


• "Haptic perception of object curvature in Parkinson's Disease" was published in Public Library of Science ONE, 2008. Authors are Jürgen Konczak, Kuan-yi Li, Paul J. Tuite, and Howard Poizner (Kuan-yi Li is a doctoral student of Jürgen's.)

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Nicole Lavoi, associate director of the Tucker Center, has several pieces of good news to report:

• This fall Nicole and research assistant Chelsey Rodd are writing a position paper in partnership with Team Up for Youth on sports-based youth development for underserved girls. Team Up for Youth is a nonprofit organization that helps create after-school sports opportunities for girls and boys.

• Today Nicole delivered a keynote titled "Developing Physically Active Girls" to the American Association of University Women-Wisconsin River Falls chapter.
• Nicole was invited to the annual meeting of the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association on October 4 to give a presentation titled "The Psychology of Coaching: Effective Motivational Strategies."

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Stephen Ross, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently discussed whether naming rights for sporting venues are worth the cost to the brand.

Good Question: Are Naming Rights Worth The Money?
WCCO (Minn.) Sept. 16, 2008

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When low-wage workers are facing layoffs or reduced hours, they become more resourceful and find many ways to earn money on the side to supplement their income. Further, individuals who are unable to find work are turning to their "side jobs" as their main source of income and now face the complexities of being "self-employed."

1-Day Conference
November 18, 2008
9 am to 4 pm
Continuing Education &
Conference Center
University of Minnesota,
St. Paul Campus

Conference details and registration Download file
The goal of this conference is to arm professionals, who work with these individuals, with tools and resources for navigating self-employment to build family stability and prosperity.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor of kinesiology, has been selected to be an associate editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES).

RQES is an interdisciplinary publication and the longest standing scholarly journal in in the field of kinesiology (since 1930). Diane will serve a three-year term, 2008-2011, for the psychology section of the journal.

Congratulations Diane!

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Maureen Weiss, professor of Kinesiology, will join representative faculty of CIC universities (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) in visiting five universities in China (Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Xian, Shanghai).

The purpose of the trip, October 9-23, is to discover ways to collaborate on undergraduate and graduate programs, research projects, and study abroad opportunities. The delegation includes kinesiology faculty from the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Purdue University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Penn State University.

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Lecturer Stacey Ingraham (Kinesiology) suggests eliminating pre-workout stretching and using the time for more exercising instead.

Get the most out of your workout in the shortest amount of time
Daily Herald (Ill.) Sept. 15, 2008

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The first fall 2008 FSoS Roundtable meeting will be Tuesday, September 16th at 4:20 in 146 McNeal Hall.

FSoS Roundtable is a great way to create a sense of identity within the Family Social Science Department, establish networking opportunities, promote healthy relationships, and take part in hands-on community service and involvement.

Should you have specific questions about this growing undergraduate student organization, please contact co-presidents, Laura Skubic, Jill Moran or Amanda Matzek, undergraduate adviser.

We look forward to seeing you at the first meeting!

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On September 11, Bill Doherty led a talk on “Sharing Appreciation�? for couples and mentors participating in the Minnesota Family Formation Project. The monthly event is part of an initiative that works with unmarried and married new parents who want to form stable families in which to raise their child. After the talk, the couples and their mentors formed into small groups to discuss how to show appreciation to their partner and why showing appreciation is important to building a healthy marriage.

The Minnesota Family Formation Project takes a community organizing approach by engaging seasoned leader couples and unmarried new parents to form stable families and healthy marriages. The project matches couples with an experienced mentor couples who can help support unmarried new parents along their journey. The next couple Connection Event theme is focused on dealing with money issues as a couple.

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GoNorth! has been named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation.

GoNorth! was selected from among hundreds of nominations representing 68 countries as one of 25 innovators from around the world recognized for applying technology to benefit humanity.

The Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity is one of the premier annual humanitarian awards programs in the world.

Recognizing technical solutions that benefit humanity and address the most critical issues facing our planet and its people, the awards program honors 25 scientists and innovators annually alongside the recipient of the Global Humanitarian Award.

Read the full press release.

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, was quoted today in an article on an innovative classroom for elementary students in Marine on St. Croix. Kids in this classroom have "stand-up workstations" where they can stand or sit on high stools. Beth will be studying how many more calories students will burn at their workstations compared to being seated at traditional desks.

Standing up to the task
Star Tribune (Minn.) Sept. 10, 2008

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Bill Doherty was interviewed for an article on present-free parties in the Washington Times .

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As many of you know, senior teaching specialist LeRoy Gardner, Jr. (Postsecondary Teaching and Learning) passed away on Saturday, September 6, after a long battle with lung cancer. LeRoy's funeral will be held at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow, September 11, at the Estes Funeral Chapel (2210 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis).

Following the funeral there will be a time for family and friends to gather at the Urban League (2100 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis), which is across the street from the Estes Funeral Chapel.

A recent Star Tribune article details LeRoy's many accomplishments and passion for teaching. He will be greatly missed by his department, the college, and the larger University community.

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The ResearchChannel Advisory Committee announces a call for video submissions to be considered for the University's ten hours of programming during the 2008-09 academic year.

ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the work of their researchers with the public through video programs available via satellite and cable television and its Web site.

The University became a member in 2008 and may broadcast 10 hours of programming per year. Campus college, department, or center representatives may submit programs on a semi-annual basis. A University-wide advisory committee selects the programming that best represents the University, and OIT Video Solutions works with ResearchChannel staff to broadcast the programs.

To learn more about selection criteria, visit OIT Video Solutions - ResearchChannel.

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Professor Jane Gilgun (School of Social Work) published an article called “Lived Experience, Reflexivity, and Research on Perpetrators of Interpersonal Violence� that appeared in June 2008 issue of Qualitative Social Work. She also presented a symposium of four papers with Ph.D. students Valandra and Alankaar Sharma at the 4th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry held in May 2008 in Urbana, Illinois.

The papers are: "The NEATS: Assessment and Practice Guidelines for Work with Children and Families;" "Developmental Trajectories of Children at Risk for Chronic, Serious Delinquency;" "Critical Race Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis as Tools to Examine Race and Racism in Social Work Practice and Research;" and "Humor in Social Work."

Jane also has two free downloads of interest to social work students and practitioners:

• The NEATS: A Child & Family Assessment. The NEATS is based on the best we know about the five areas of human development and functioning: neurobiology, executive function, attachment, trauma, and self-regulation. The NEATS guides practitioners to gather information that will contribute to effective case plans.


• Child Sexual Abuse: Child Survivors and Perpetrators Tell Their Stories. Based on interviews with child and adult survivors and perpetrators of child sexual abuse, the book provides information found nowhere else. Here readers discover that children think sexual abuse is their fault and that many perpetrators believe sexual abuse is wrong but what they are doing is not abuse but love. Stories that mothers tell are being incorporated into the book.

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Write Winning Grants seminar
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn Metrodome (West Bank) in the Aragon Ballroom

This seminar is designed for faculty members and research staff who have had some exposure to writing grant applications, either through training/mentoring or personal experience.

David C. Morrison, Ph.D., an experienced academician, grant manager, and grant-reviewer, will present the seminar. Morrison has a wealth of experience and knowledge in proposal writing which has kept him continuously funded since the early 1970s by NIH (including a ten-year MERIT award), foundations, and industry.

Register online

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Karen Kramer and Kristin Schneider Dillon, both passed a preliminary oral examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Family Social Science.

Kristin Schneider Dillon’s committee:
Jodi Dworkin (Chair), Abigail Gewirtz, Martha Rueter, and outside member, G J August (Professor of Psychiatry)

Karen Kramer’s committee:
B. Jan McCulloch (Chair), Jean Bauer,
Catherine Solheim, and outside member, Erin Kelly (Associate Professor of
Sociology)

Congratulations to both!!!

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On Wednesday, September 10 in 278 McNeal Hall, Cathy Solheim, kicked-off the 2008-2009 FSoS Colloquium series with a short video of Tony Robbins discussing "Why we do what we do and how we can do it better" from TED.com, an Internet-based resource which brings together thought leaders and doers "who are challenged to give the talk of their lives."

After the video, graduate students and faculty reflected on the ideas Robbins presented - the invisible forces that motivate our actions - and how they relate to our roles as people, students, faculty, staff, citizens, family members, etc. There were lively discussions were both entertaining and thought-provoking.

About the FSoS Colloquium:
The Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota hosts a weekly Colloquium Series. During this hour-long forum, we invite colleagues from the university and community to share their scholarship and experiences, typically in some form of presentation. This is followed by a time for questions and dialog. Our goals are to learn about a wide variety of topics from diverse perspectives, to stretch our thinking beyond our usual comfort zones, and to engage in respectful dialog about topics related to families in their local and global contexts.

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Please join the University Northside Partnership's Education Workgroup for their upcoming meetings.

The meetings will be held from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Plymouth Christian Youth Center, Community Room, 2210 Oliver Avenue North, Minneapolis.

Meeting dates: September 22, October 27, November 24, December 15

About UNP: The University wants to be one of the partners working to maximize the health, vitality, promise, and opportunity of north Minneapolis by providing services to professionals, practitioners, and the public; investing financial resources for economic development; providing jobs; and offering educational opportunities within the community.

For more information, contact Audrey Appelsies at aja@umn.edu or Anise McDowell at amm@umn.edu or 612-625-8649.

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Lecturer Rob Shumer (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) recently gave a presentation on service learning to the Orange County Public Schools Learning Service Program in Florida.

You can read more about Rob's presentation, and download accompanying handouts here.

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A report by the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is mentioned in an article on a local tutoring program.

Green is go, stop is red
Southside Pride (Minn.) September 2008

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Associate professor Matt Burns (Educational Psychology) comments in an article on the Response-to-Intervention (RTI) teaching approach.

Measure for measure, teaching approach gaining popularity
Star Tribune (Minn.) Sept. 7, 2008

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Even though it's a little chilly this morning, you can still remember sunnier times by perusing photos of CEHD at the State Fair. Just visit CEHD Connect at http://cehdconnect.ning.com/.

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Ambit Network has begun hosting a yearlong learning collaborative on Trauma Focused Parent Coaching. The twelve participants in the learning collaborative represent mental health providers from a variety of community agencies including Center for Victims of Torture, Centro Cultural, Tubman, and three agencies working directly with Minneapolis Public Schools: La Familia, Mental Health Collective, and African Aid. Mental health providers from these agencies will participate in 18 full days of interactive training that will prepare them to facilitate parent groups of Trauma Focused Parent Coaching beginning in fall 2008.

Trauma Focused Parent Coaching, developed by Dr. Abi Gewirtz and colleagues, is an adaptation of Parenting Through Change (PTC), a 14-week group-based parent training intervention that has been designated a National Registry of Effective and Promising Practices ‘model practice’. Developed by Dr. Marion Forgatch, PTC was originally designed as a preventive intervention to improve adjustment and curb the emergence of behavior problems among children of newly single and separating mothers (Forgatch & DeGarmo, 1999). Trauma Focused Parent Coaching seeks to build on PTC effectiveness for traumatized populations by enhancing curriculum focus on emotion socialization, emotion regulation, and mindfulness.

Dr. Gewirtz, project director of Ambit Network, will be delivering the training and ongoing coaching, together with Laura Rains of Oregon Social Learning Center. Drs. Crystal Cullerton-Sen and Dawn Reckinger will be coordinating the yearlong learning collaborative.

photo: Role Playing

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Ralph Anttonen (Ph.D., educational psychology) and his wife, Judy, have been named the 2008 grand marshals of Pennsylvania's Millersville Community Parade, chosen among 25 other nominees by the Millersville Community Parade Committee.

The two mile, award-winning parade will take place on Saturday, November 1, which coincides with Millersville's Homecoming weekend, Family Day, and Community Day.

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The Regents Professor Lecture Series, featuring public talks by newly-appointed Regents Professors, highlights the work of the University’s most distinguished faculty. The series celebrates these faculty members’ many accomplishments, brings attention to their unique scholarly contributions, and allows the University community to learn about their important work first hand.

The first lecture of the semester will be held on Monday, September 29, 2008, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center. Dr. Eric Sheppard, Regents Professor of Geography, will discuss "Geography, Nature, and the Question of Development." Dr. Sheppard’s talk will be followed by a reception.

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The following video footage of Welcome Week, produced by University Relations, features incoming CEHD students. Enjoy!

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The American Society of Neuroscience has chosen a poster presentation by Professor Juergen Konczak (School of Kinesiology), Heidi Vander Velden (M.A., kinesiology, '06), and L. Jaeger to be included in the media materials of their upcoming Annual Conference, November 15-19 in Washington, DC.

The title of the presentation is "Learning to play the violin: Motor control by freezing, not freeing degrees of freedom."

Neuroscience 2008 is the largest neuroscience conference in the world with 25,000 attendees. The conference receives close to 18,000 submissions and chooses about 500 to include in their lay language summary because they are deemed to be of special interest to the public.

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On Saturday, August 23, 2008 50 members of the Cambodian, Hmong, Lao and Vietnamese communities gathered at Lao Family Community of Minnesota in St. Paul as part of the ClearWay Southeast Asian Tobacco Intervention Project (SEATIP). The purpose of the half-day retreat was to bring leaders and community members from four SEA together to celebrate the work of SEATIP, discuss the preliminary results of Dr. Zha Blong Xiong's research on community engagement around tobacco intervention, and explore the next steps each of the four communities can take to implement culturally appropriate smoking intervention strategies. Organizational leaders from Lao Advancement Organization of America, Lao Family Community of Minnesota, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota and Vietnamese Minnesotans Association and their invited guests from their communities participated in the retreat, which was one of the first times all four communities came together to share knowledge and collaborate on a common goal. At the retreat, 20 attending community leaders who had participated in the community leadership groups were acknowledged and awarded certificates of appreciation. Both the research project and the retreat were funded by ClearWay Minnesota. View image

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Professor Esther Wattenberg (School of Social Work) recently published an editorial in the Star Tribune.

Editorial: Foundation should not shirk its primary goal: Aiding the needy
Star Tribune (Minn.) August 3, 2008

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Doctoral student Alankaar Sharma (School of Social Work) has had a peer-reviewed publication published.

The paper, titled “Decriminalizing Queer Sexualities in India: A Multiple Streams Analysis� was published in the journal Social Policy and Society (Volume 7, No. 4, pages 419-431). The paper uses the multiple streams policy framework to evaluate the role of agenda setting in changing an archaic law of British origin in the constitution of India that criminalizes LGBT sexual expressions.

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The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $500,000 grant to Associate Professor Gillian Roehrig and Lecturer Terry Wyberg, both in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, for a teacher preparation project.

This project, titled "Project IMPACT: Improving Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Teaching," is under the direction of Roehrig, Wyberg, and Professor Cynthia A. Cattell in the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Congratulations to all three grant recipients!

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Professor Emerita Sunny Hansen (Educational Psychology) recently launched a new international gender equity Web site called Born Free International.

The site, under development for the last three years, consists of original, revised, and new print materials created by 14 Minnesota institutions through a federal grant from the Women’s Educational Equity Act. International authors from about a dozen countries have contributed articles to the site. Authors provide a brief section on country demographics, another on gender issues in the culture, and a third on their own experiences growing up, studying, or working in the country.

For more information about Born Free International, read the full press release.

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Left to Right
front row:
Roberta Daigle (Student Support Services Assistant), Jennifer Sampson (Ph.D. MFT), Xiaohui Li (Ph.D.), Erica Kanewischer (Ph.D. MFT), Laurel Davis (MA/Ph.D.), Juyoung Jang (Ph.D.), Han-NahKim (MA/Ph.D.)
back row:
Max Zubatsky (Ph.D. MFT), Jean Bauer (Professor, Director of Graduate Studies & Extension Specialist), Tisa Thomas (Ph.D.), Meaghan Nelson (Ph.D.)

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