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March 31, 2009
Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, gave an invited colloquium in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, on the topic of "Postural instability and motion sickness" on March 25.
Michael Messner, the Tucker Center's Spring 2009 Distinguished Lecturer, recently published an op-ed, "Let's have more crying in baseball," in the Pasadena Star-News.
A University of Southern California professor of sociology and gender studies, Messner's presentation, titled "You Gotta Be Tough": Challenges and Strategies of Female Coaches in Youth Sports, is based in part on his just-published book It's All For the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports. The lecture will take place on April 22 from 7-9:00 pm at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center on the U of M's West Bank.
Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Curriculum and Instruction, leads a team of C&I faculty who have served as partners in implementing and supporting DigME, a new digital media program at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. The program is an interdisciplinary program focusing on disciplinary knowledge and critical thinking through the use of digital media analysis and production. It is meant to promote school engagement, learning, and achievement. See accompanying news article and video below.
March 30, 2009
Several members of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center participated in this year's College of Education and Human Development Research Day poster displays on March 24.
Chelsea Thul, Ph.D. student in sport and exercise psychology and research assistant at the Tucker Center, Jill Haom, B.S. student in kinesiology and former intern at the Tucker Center, and Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer and Tucker Center associate director, presented their poster "Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Adolescent Girls" [abstract | poster]; Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor, presented "Safe or Out: Using Community Action Research to Transform the Environment for Youth Baseball at an Urban Recreation Center" [abstract | poster]; and Tom Smith, Ph.D., research associate, presented his poster "The Ergonomics of Learning - The Design of the Learning Environment is Key to Student Learning Performance" [abstract | poster].
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Chelsea Thul | Jill Haom | Nicole LaVoi | Lisa Kihl | Diane | Tom Smith |
Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., education specialist in the School of Kinesiology, is featured in a Star Tribune article for her volunteer work with The Melpomene Institute for Women's Health Research and the Brian Coyle Community Center in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood where each Sunday she works with Somali high school and college girls on their basketball skills. Buysse is a former collegiate women's basketball coach and now directs the undergraduate Sports Management Program at the U of MN.
March 27, 2009
Michael Rodriguez, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, received a 2009 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education. This award is sponsored by the Senate Committee on Educational Policy, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, and the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. Rodriguez and other recipients will be honored at an April 27 reception.
Austin Calhoun, Ph.D. student and Tucker Center research assistant, presented a poster, "Examining Online Intercollegiate Head Coaches' Biographies: Reproducing or Challenging Heteronormativity and Heterosexism?" [abstract | poster] at the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference, in Ithaca, NY, March 18-20, 2009. The poster was done in collaboration with Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and Associate Director of the Tucker Center.
Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, with colleague Elizabeth Daniels (Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon), will co-author a chapter in the forthcoming book The Sexualization of Girls, published by the American Psychological Association. Their chapter will be titled, "The Solution and Problem: Sports Participation for Girls and The Sexualization of Women Athletes".
March 24, 2009
Arunya Tuicomepee, assistant professor of Psychology at Chulalongkorn YUniversity, Bangkok, and John Romano, professor in Educational Psychology, were co-recipients of the American Counseling Association 2009 Research Award. The award, which was presented at the Association's annual convention, was given in recognition of the paper, ""Thai Adolescent Survivors 1 year after the 2004 Tsunami: A Mixed Methods Study"" which appeared in the July 2008, Journal of Counseling Psychology. This paper was based on Dr. Tuicomepee's doctoral dissertation under the direction of Romano.The University, CEHD, and Educational Psychology all have institutional partnerships with Chulalongkorn University.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in a New York Times article "Putting a Price on a Title Run Stirs a Debate." The article talks about Oklahoma women's basketball all-American Courtney Paris' statement saying she would repay her scholarship in full if her team failed to win a national championship this year.
March 23, 2009
Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., was featured on an MPR segment March 19. She volunteers each Sunday to work with a group of Somali high school and college women who get together to play basketball at the Brian Coyle Center in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Pictures, along with more information, are available at Minnesota Public Radio.
March 22, 2009
Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, is quoted in a Pioneer Press article titled, "A generation on the sidelines: Why Minnesota kids are leaving school sports behind."
March 20, 2009
Doctoral student Tommy Valentini will have a chapter titled “Love-Love: A Fresh Start at Finding Value and Virtue in Tennis” in the soon-to-be-released book Tennis and Philosophy. The book is part of the Philosophy and Popular Culture series published by the University Press of Kentucky. Valentini’s chapter discusses the potential of sport to contribute to athlete moral development and the importance of a philosophy that prioritizes winning below other aspects of competition that are within an athlete’s control—namely effort, sportsmanship, and positive attitude. Valentini is advised by Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, Associate Director of the Tucker Center.
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport in the School of Kinesiology, gave the keynote presentation for the First Annual Girls in Sport Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The title of her presentation was, “Promoting a ‘love of the game:’ Optimizing girls’ physical, social, and psychological assets through physical activity.” Weiss will also give a keynote presentation at the annual conference of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) in April titled, “Caring, compassionate, competent: Coaching for positive youth development through sport.”
March 19, 2009
Richard Beach, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, will receive the 2009 Computers in Reading Research Award from the technology in literacy education special interest group of the International Reading Association at the association's convention on May 7 in Minneapolis. This award is given in recognition of high quality research related to adolescents, literacy, and uses of digital media.
The 2009 MITER Lecture and MITER Brown Bag talk, on neuroimaging and reading research, given by Ken Pugh of Haskins Laboratories and Yale University on February 27, 2009, are now available on the MITER Program’s Events page.
March 18, 2009
The research of Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, is the subject of an article in the News Scan section of the April, 2009, Scientific American. Stoffregen's controversial theories on postural instability as the cause of motion sickness are featured.
In addition, Prof. Stoffregen has had the following article accepted by Motor Control. Two of the authors, Russ Giveans and Jane Yank, are his doctoral students.Sebastien Villard spent worked with him as a post-doctoral student.
Stoffregen, T. A., Giveans, M. R., Villard, S., Yank, J. R., & Shockley, K. (2009). Interpersonal postural coordination on rigid and non-rigid surfaces.
Tony Albano, doctoral student in Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods in Education), has been awarded a summer internship at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey. Tony will work with Dr. Jinghua Liu on a project investigating the Effects of Smoothing on Equating Functions in the Presence of Structurally Irregular Data. This is a great recognition of his work and preparedness and a very competitive award. Michael Rodriguez is Tony's adviser.
March 17, 2009
The School Psychology program is hosting its annual Summer Institute on August 11, 2009. Jim Wright of Intervention Central will present: Instruction and Interventions within Response to Intervention. Please see the Summer Institute web page for more information and registration. The program will be held at the Radission Hotel in Rosevillle.
On March 30-31 the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is presenting training on the Minneapolis campus for representatives of school districts and youth organizations from across the U.S. and Canada desiring assistance in implementing the school engagement intervention, "Check & Connect." Initially developed through a federally-funded research project in 1990 to address the high rate of dropout among secondary students with disabilities, "Check & Connect" has been continuously revised and expanded over the past 19 years to be effective with students with or without disabilities in elementary, middle, and high school. Today it is one of 22 dropout prevention interventions rated by the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse and the only program found to have strong evidence of positive effects for staying in school. To learn more "Check & Connect" see http://ici.umn.edu/news/fyi/dec08.html.
On March 1, the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) and the Department of Educational Psychology launched "Making the Connection: Engaging and Retaining Young Adults in Postsecondary Education," a two-year research project funded by a $727,237 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES). The project will study adaptation of Check & Connect – a K-12 school engagement intervention developed at ICI – to community college settings for use with students ages 18-30 who are at risk of leaving school. To learn more, see http://ici.umn.edu/news/fyi/mar09.html.
March 16, 2009
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, will be a presenter at a So You Have an Interdisciplinary Center? What's Next? on April 13. The workshop will focus on challenges of sustaining established and successful interdisciplinary centers at the University. Dr. Kane will share insights on her experience as director of the internationally recognized Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport.
March 13, 2009
Ann Person, Family Social Science student, is interviewed talking about her future in our current economic climate. Read the full story.
Star Tribune, MN
March 12, 2009
Jill Haom, kinesiology B.S. student, has been awarded the Diversity of Views and Experience (DOVE) Fellowship for 2009-2010. Jill will be entering the M.A. in Kinesiology with emphasis on sport and exercise psychology next fall. She will be working with Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology. Jill worked last summer with Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., associate director of the Tucker Center as a Minnesota McNair Scholar, where she participated in the project, "The Physical Activity of East African Girls," and presented a poster on perceived barriers to physical activity.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, was recently quoted in "The Selling of Candace Parker", a feature story from ESPN: The Magazine.
Kane is quoted as saying, "Women athletes are more likely to be marketed as sexy than as competent."
March 11, 2009
Theodore J. Christ, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, was recently awarded $1.6 million from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to fund the project entitled Formative Assessment Instrumentation and Procedures for Reading (FAIP-R). That project will fund activities to establish guidelines, procedures and instrumentation for collecting, interpreting, and using progress monitoring data to evaluate students’ reading growth in 1st through 5th grades. Researchers will translate their findings directly to practice with a set of interactive web-based materials to assist school personnel in the use of data for school-based decision-making. This is one of three federally funded projects for which Dr. Christ is principal or co-principal investigator.
March 9, 2009
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., gave a hockey parent workshop on March 7, 2009 held in conjunction with a girls' hockey clinic. The first-ever clinic and parent workshop was done in conjunction with the WCHA Women's Hockey Tournament, organized by the U of M Sport Business Institute.
The economic crisis has put many families under unbelievable stress right now. KARE 11's Julie Nelson sat down with Catherine Solheim, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Department of Family Social Science to talk about family dynamics to talk about how to handle all that stress in your home.
Click here for tips on how to lower your stress.
March 6, 2009
Jay Samuels, Ed.D., professor in Educational Psychology presented a symposium on "The Role of Practice in Learning" at the International Reading Association's national meeting in Phoenix in February.
March 5, 2009
School of Social Work Professor Jeffrey Edleson and Professor Richard M. Tolman of the University of Michigan School of Social Work have launched the Global Research Program on Mobilizing Men for Violence Prevention. This project will develop and test early prevention strategies to engage new fathers and non-violent men in preventing violence against women and children. Information about the project can be found on the project's Web site.
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is featured in the March 3 issue of the American College of Sport Medicine's (ACSM) Sports Medicine Bulletin for her involvement in the organization's Leadership & Diversity Training Program.
Barr-Anderson has been active in ACSM since 2003, first as a student member and then as a professional-in-training. She is also involved in the Minority Health & Research Special Interest Group.
March 4, 2009
You can always count on kids to ask the tough questions, and these days kids probably have many questions about the economy. University of Minnesota Family Social Science Professor, Catherine Solheim joined TCL with some popular children’s books that can make economy talk with your kids easier on the whole family!
Watch the Twin Cities Live interview.
The 2009 President’s Student Leadership & Service Award (PSLSA) was awarded to FSoS majors: Annie Johnson and Lucia Yess. Each year, this award recognizes the accomplishments and contributions made by outstanding student leaders. It is presented to approximately one-half of one percent of the student body for their exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota and the surrounding community.
This award is presented to approximately one-half of one percent of the student body for their exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota and the surrounding community. Awards will be presented at the President's Award Banquet taking place on May 4th, 2009 in the Great Hall of Coffman Union.
March 3, 2009
Colleges used to wait until students were in high school before talking to them about higher education. But these days Minnesota colleges are reaching out to students in middle school and even elementary classrooms, to encourage them to prepare for college. Sheena Thao, an outreach specialist at the University of Minnesota, as well as a Family Social Science student, spends the afternoon in a U of M classroom talking with a group of students from a charter school in Minneapolis. Listen to the full MPR report.
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