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April 30, 2009
Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has published the following article with graduate student Tim Richardson in the recent issue of the Journal of Sport Management: Kihl, L. A., & Richardson, T. 'Fixing the Mess': A grounded theory of a men's basketball coaching staff's suffering as a result of academic corruption. Journal of Sport Management, 23 (3), pp 278-304.
An April 28, 2009 article in the Star Tribune by Maria Elena Baca features social studies teacher Chris Ripkin and GoNorth, an online adventure-learning program that operates in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and the College of Education and Human Development and NOMADS Adventure & Education. Assistant professor Aaron Doering, Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, is a member of the team currently in Nunavut, Canada.
Alisha Baker, a sophomore working in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has received a UROP award for her research project, "Posture and locomotion influence perception of a novel affordance". Her supervisor is Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D, professor in Kinesiology.
April 29, 2009
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has had her manuscript "Parental report vs. child perception of familial support: which is more associated with child physical activity and television use?" accepted by the Journal of Physical Activity & Health. Publication date is pending.
Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester in Geneva, Italy, gave an invited presentation on April 22 to clinicians at a teaching hospital in Trier, Germany. The title of his talk was "Funktionelle Erholung nach Kleinhirnschaedigung (Functional recovery after injury to the cerebellum)."
Results from his research laboratory and from his international collaboration were recently published in Journal of Motor Behavior and Gait and Posture.
Konczak J., VanderVelden, H., Jaeger, L. (2009). Learning to play the violin: motor control by freezing not freeing degrees of freedom. Journal of Motor Behavior, May;41(3):243-52. [see http://hsc.umn.edu/ for details]
Buderath, P., Gärtner, K., Frings, M., Christiansen, H., Schoch, B., Konczak, J., Gizewski, E.R., Hebebrand, J., Timmann, D. (2009). Postural and gait performance in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Gait and Posture, Feb; 29(2):249-254. Epub 2008 Oct 28.
ICD staff member Eric Hart is the lead author of the newly released book, "The Neighborhood by the Falls: A Look Back at Life in Longfellow." Published by the Longfellow Community Council, this richly illustrated book is a history of the south Minneapolis neighborhood where he lives and shines new light on the people, places, and events contributing to the neighborhood's long history. Contact Eric if you are interested in purchasing a copy of the book.
April 27, 2009
The Paris-based International Poetry Biennial has announced that Professor Thom Swiss Ph.D., Curriculum and instruction, is a finalist in the new media poetry competition judged by an international jury. His work will be exhibited in Paris this summer while Swiss is teaching at the American University of Paris as Professor of Global Communications. New media poems by Swiss appear in the current issue of Hyperrhiz , a new media journal of art and literature, and the Poetry Project by the Walker Art Museum.
William Bart, Ph.D., professorin Educational Psychology, has had a third entry accepted for publication in the SAGE Reference work, Encyclopedia of Research Design. The reference is the following:
Bart, W. M., & Bart, T. (in press). Markov Chains. In N. Salkind(Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
This entry is 16 pages in length. Thomas Bart, co-author, is the son of William Bart.
The Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Health (Moira Petit, Ph.D., lab director) has had an active and eventful year. Several Kinesiology Ph.D. students presented posters or oral presentations at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research meeting last fall, including: Susan Novotny (oral presentation and poster), Kristy Popp, Amanda Thieschafer, Julie Hughes (plenary poster), and Sue Lynn Peart. Beth Kaufman and Julie Cousins will be presenting their work at the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) meeting in Seattle this May.
Dr. Petit also received a grant from the MN Obesity Consortium for the study “Bone and cardiovascular health in obese adolescents following bariatric surgery.” Ph.D. students Lesley Scibora and Susan Novotny did much of the writing for that grant.
Three UROP students worked in the lab this past semester: Christopher Winkler, Robin Spoehr, and Alyssa Kurkoski. Patrick Hughes was awarded a UROP to work in our lab this summer.
Below are recently published or accepted manuscripts (Kinesiology students and faculty in bold):
Wetzsteon RJ, Petit MA, Macdonald HM, Hughes JM, Beck TJ, McKay HA. Bone structure and volumetric BMD in overweight children: a longitudinal study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2008 Dec;23(12):1946-53.
Wetzsteon RJ, Hughes JM, Kaufman BC, Vazquez G, Stoffregen TA, Stovitz SD, Petit MA. Ethnic differences in bone strength are apparent in childhood. Bone, In Press 2009.
Petit MA, Paudel ML, Taylor BC, Hughes JM, Strotmeyer ES, Schwartz AV, Cauley JA, Zmuda JM, Hoffman AR, Ensrud KE. Bone mass and strength in older men with type 2 diabetes: the osteoporotic fractures in men study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Accepted 2009.
Singh JA, Schmitz KH, Petit MA. Effect of resistance exercise on bone mineral density in premenopausal women. Joint Bone Spine. 2009 Feb 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Thieschafer AJ, Hughes JM, Popp KL, Wetzsteon RJ, Stovitz SD, Kaufman BC, Kurzer MS, Petit MA. Bone volumetric density, geometry, and strength in female and male collegiate runners. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Accepted, 2009.
Popp KL, Hughes JM, Thieschafer AJ, Novotny SA, Stovitz SD, Koehler S, Petit MA. Bone geometry, strength, and muscle mass in runners with a history of stress fracture. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Accepted, 2009.
Beck TJ, Petit MA, Wu G, Leboff MS, Cauley JA, Chen Z. Does Obesity Really Make the Femur Stronger? Bone Mineral Density, Geometry and Fracture Incidence in the Women's Health Initiative-Observational Study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2009 Mar 17. [Epub ahead of print]
The 2009 US News and World Report Graduate Program rankings are out, and ICD has regained the number one spot in Developmental Psychology. Congratulations, ICD! See the rankings here.
April 24, 2009
The Center for Clinical Movement Science, whose membership includes many faculty and graduate students in the School of Kinesiology, held its first Research Day on Friday, Aprli 17. Photos of the event may be seen at the CCMS Web site.
April 23, 2009
All seven Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Program students (Educational Psychology) successfully matched with American Psychological Association (APA) accredited pre-doctoral internships around the country for 2009-2010. The process was exceptionally competitive this year with a record 3,825 applicants and an eventual 846 students who did not match. Congratulations to the following (internship sites in parenthesis):
Julia Conkel-Ziebell (University of Minnesota Medical School-Neuropsychology-Pediatric Psychology)
JuiHsien Kao (University of Minnesota Counseling and Consulting Services)
Jason Netland (Hazelden Foundation)
Sandra Sanger (University of St. Thomas Counseling Center)
Michael Starkey (University of Maine Counseling Center)
Chia-Chen Tu (University of New Hampshire Counseling Center)
A Yang (Ohio State University Counseling and Consultation Service)
Michael Goh, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, has been appointed faculty mentor for the 2009 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program Psychology Summer Institute (PSI). PSI provides educational, professional development, and mentoring experiences to advanced doctoral students of psychology and psychologists who are in the early stage of their careers. Participants from across the United States are guided toward developing a grant proposal, postdoctoral fellowship, dissertation, treatment program, publication, or program evaluation project. All projects focus on issues affecting ethnic minority communities.
April 22, 2009
William Bart, Ph.D., professor, and Kentaro Kato, graduate student, both in Educational Psychology, have had two entries accepted for publication in the SAGE Reference work, Encyclopedia of Research Design:
Kato, K., & Bart, W. M. (in press). Bernoulli distribution. In N.Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design. ThousandOaks, CA: Sage.
Kato, K., & Bart, W. M. (in press). Poisson distribution. In N.Salkind (Ed.),Encyclopedia of research design.ThousandOaks, CA: Sage.
Kentaro Kato is a graduate advisee of William Bart and Ernest Davenport.
April 21, 2009
Family Social Science is delighted to welcome Steven M. Harris, Ph.D., LMFT, to our department. Harris has been appointed as professor in the department and will serve as director of the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program beginning in August.
Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, will be presenting on Thursday, April 23, at the Twin Cities suburban Centennial Soccer Association's Coaches Training Seminar on two topics: Nutritional Considerations for Sports Performance for Soccer Practice, Games and Tournaments and Maturation and Sports Performance in Soccer.
Star Tribune sports columnist Rachel Blount interviewed Kinesiology lecturer Nicole LaVoi Ph.D. for the article Studies blow the whistle on lack of women coaches." Blount also mentioned tomorrow's Tucker Center Spring Distinguished Lecture by Michael Messner, Ph.D., University of Southern California professor of sociology and gender studies. Professor Messner will be treating the issue in his lecture, You Gotta Be Tough: Challenges and Strategies of Female Coaches in Youth Sports.
In addition to being honored as a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association at its recent annual meeting in San Diego, California, April, 2009, William Bart, Ph.D., professor in Educational Psychology, presented two papers co-authored by former advisees at the meeting.
Dr. Seth Langley and Bart co-authored the paper Examining self-regulatory factors that influence the academic achievement motivation of underprepared college students.
Dr. Saahoon Hong, Jihoon Ryoo, and Bart co-authored another paper A preliminary longitudinal study of performance pay for teachers: Examining elementary school performance in mathematics and reading.
April 20, 2009
The School of Social Work is hosting a free conference on a partnership approach to promote health and mental health literacy and to reduce disparities amond immigrant and refugee communities. The conference will be held May 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus.
The primary goal of the conference is to bring together researchers, community practitioners and community members to share knowledge and information and to engage in partnerships in order to adopt culturally appropriate approaches to deal with health and mental health disparities, especially among immigrants and refugees in Minnesota. More information or to register.
April 18, 2009
Family Education M.Ed. professional studies and parent and family education licensure student Deborah S. Roberts has been awarded an advanced study student scholarship from the College's alumni society in recognition of her academic performance and potential for making a significant contribution to the field of education and human development. The award was presented to Roberts on Friday, April 17 at the CEHD Alumni Society awards celebration. A reception followed the ceremony.
Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, has received the Robert H. Beck Faculty Teaching Award for her outstanding contributions to education. The award is given for excellence in teaching and advising, innovation in academic program development, and outstanding educational leadership. The award was presented to Lewis at the College of Education and Human Development Alumni Society awards celebration held April 17, 2009. Recipients of the award are nominated by their students.
April 17, 2009
The College’s Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is part of a national consortium developing “Think College,” a set of resources to support access to, and success in, postsecondary education for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The consortium includes ICI, the Institute for Community Inclusion (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Center on Disability Studies (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Center for Disability Studies (University of Delaware), Nisonger Center (The Ohio State University), Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (Vanderbilt University), Center for Disability Resources (University of South Carolina), Tarjan Center (UCLA), and the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. To learn more, see the story in the April issue of the ICI staff newsletter.
William Bart, Ph.D., professor of Educational Psychology, was honored as a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at its recent annual meeting in San Diego, California, April, 2009, in “recognition of sustained achievement in education research.”
Bart joins five other CEHD faculty as Fellows of AERA: Robert Bruininks, Mark Davison, Joan Garfield, David W. Johnson, and Geoffrey Maruyama.
April 16, 2009
Jennifer McComas, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, was awarded a $778,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Leadership Training to Promote Students' Academic and Behavioral Success.
April 15, 2009
Culture and Teaching (CaT) faculty Tim Lensmire, Bic Ngo, Mistilina Sato, and Thom Swiss in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction are pleased to announce three incoming graduate students who have received graduate fellowships for 2009-10. All three incoming students will all be working in areas related to race, culture, diversity, and education.
Postdoctoral Fellow Vichet Chhuon is currently at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California - Santa Barbara; his research interests include multicultural education, achievement motivation, adolescent development, and Asian American education. Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE ) Fellow Brian Lozenski has research interests in race, social justice and culturally relevant pedagogy. Graduate School Fellow Shannon McManimon has research interests in peace studies, "whiteness," race, and social justice.
Please welcome these outstanding students of diversity and culture to the College next academic year when you meet them.
Melissa Wong, an undergraduate working with Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D. in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant, for her research on Microslips in a Manual Placing Task.
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, spoke to members of the Prior Lake Rotary Club on April 15 on behalf of the U of M Alumni Association. LaVoi's talk focused on the work of the Tucker Center including her sport parent research and barriers that prevent girls from being physically active.
April 14, 2009
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, will give an invited presentation titled "Media Representations of Sportswomen in the 21st Century" at the NCAA-sponsored Gender Equity & Issues Forum in San Diego, CA on April 27.
April 13, 2009
Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, was interviewed by Jon Gordon, host of American Public Media's "Future Tense" radio broadcast, on Friday, April 10, 2009 for a feature titled "Engaging kids with social media" about the "DigME" digital media program at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis.
Chelsey Thul, research assistant in Kinesiology, gave a workshop titled Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Adolescent Girls on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the 2009 Girls Coalition of Minnesota's Annual Conference.
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, was quoted in a Star Tribune article "Tomboys in Tutus" on April 10, 2009. LaVoi suggests, "A term like 'tomboy' limits a range of behaviors for both boys and girls."
April 10, 2009
Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, will be presenting at the upcoming North American Society for Sport Management conference, May 27-May 30, in Columbia, SC.
Lisa Kihl and co-author Kathy Babiak (University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled "Stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility in professional sport." Kihl will also be presenting at a symposium titled "Civic Engagement: Educating Citizens through Sport Management."
April 9, 2009
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport in the School of Kinesiology, published an article in the April issue of Minnesota Health Care News titled, Motivating girls to be physically active: Ingredients for optimizing health benefits. Practical strategies for meeting this goal were couched within the acronym CARE—develop Competence, provide opportunity for Autonomy or choice, promote positive adult and peer Relationships, and maximize Enjoyment and minimize anxiety.
April 8, 2009
Thom Swiss, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected by the Imagine Fund Arts, Design, and Humanities faculty committee to receive a 2009-10 Annual Arts & Humanities Faculty Award of $3000 for his project in "new media poetics, poetry, and pedagogy."
Ted Christ, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, was recently awarded a Steppingstones for Technology Award from the Office of Special Education Programming (US Department of Education). This two-year, $400,000 award will provide ongoing funding for the Computer-Based Assessment Systems for Reading project, which is designed to develop and evaluate a computer adaptive test to assess skill development across the primary grades.
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, returned to Carleton College to give an invited workshop to student-athletes, coaches and community members titled Mental Toughness Training for Peak Performance.
The workshop was paid in part by a grant from the NCAA. LaVoi was Carleton's Assistant Women's Tennis Coach (1991-1993) before becoming the Head Coach at Wellesley College in 1994.
April 6, 2009
On Friday, April 3, before a small audience in Cooke Hall, graduating students in the School of Kinesiology Honors Program gave public talks and presentations concerning their Honors Research Projects.
Congratulations to these fine students:
Alyssa Kurkoski
Advisor: Prof. Moira Petit
Title: Bone strength in male runners with and without a history of stress fracture.
Elizabeth Lauer
Advisor: Prof. Tom Stoffregen
Title: Task performance and interpersonal postural coordination.
Ali Fisher
Advisor: Prof. Diane Wiese-Bjornstal
Title: Junior hockey as transitional period: Experiences of junior hockey players as they transition between Coté’s specializing and investment years.
Zoe Fung
Advisor: Prof. Tom Stoffregen
Title: Role of Locomotor Movement and Posture on Affordance Perception.
Chris Reiff
Advisor: Prof. Don Dengel
Title: Differences in caloric expenditure in sitting versus standing desks.
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, will be a guest on the radio show "It's Your Health" on Monday, April 6, from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on station KMOJ, 89.9 FM. She will discuss overweight and obesity in the African American community and her upcoming research project, "Environmental influences on physical activity and diet among African American adolescent girls."
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