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May 28, 2009
Michelle Everson, Ph.D., lecturer in Educational Psychology, received the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Education and Human Development. The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes outstanding contributions by a college faculty member who enhances learning through classroom and/or field-based teaching, student advising and academic innovations.
The Department of Educational Psychology is proud to announce that it has received 3 of the 5 top ten U.S. News & World Report rankings with which CEHD was honored in 2009. Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology received a ranking of 6th. Educational Psychology received a ranking of 7th. Special Education received a ranking of 8th.
Austin Stair Calhoun and Emily J. Houghton, Ph.D. students in sport sociology, presented at the sixth Conference of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS), held in Rome from May 27-31. Their presentation was entitled, Examining Elite Sport Representations in Social Media: Conceptualizing Twitter. The exploratory study focused on the relationship between Twitter and sport.
May 26, 2009
The School of Kinesiology's May session study abroad course "Global Sport Management," led by Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., education specialist, is on a trip to Italy where students will be exploring the relationship between globalization and sport. You can follow their experiences and adventures via blogger, twtter, and flickr.
May 22, 2009
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, has been elected as the next president of The American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), and will serve a 3-year term on the executive board. AAKPE is an honorary organization composed of Fellows who have made significant contributions to the field of kinesiology. To be inducted into membership, a person must meet rigorous criteria for scholarship and professional service. The dual purpose of AAKPE is to encourage and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of human movement and physical activity and to honor by election to its membership persons who have contributed significantly to the study and application of the art and science of human movement and physical activity.
Erin Becker, Tucker Center Program Associate and graduate student in sport & exercise psychology, will start a new job as a Health Coach with Health Fitness Corporation. Congratulations!
Nicole LaVoi and Chelsey Thul participated in the first ever Cedar Riverside Faculty Development Workshop on Thursday, May 21 due to their work with East African girls and physical activity. The workshop was a collaborative venture among the University of Minnesota, Augsburg College and the College of St. Catherine.
Juergen Konczak, professor in Kinesiology, has just published two articles as part of his ongoing collaboration with a group of neurologists at the University Medical Centre Essen, Germany.
Kronenbuerger M, Konczak J, Ziegler W, Buderath P, Frank B, Coenen VA, Kiening K, Reinacher P, Noth J, Timmann D. Balance and Motor Speech Impairment in Essential Tremor. In Cerebellum. 2009 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]
Timmann D, Konczak J, Ilg W, Donchin O, Hermsdörfer J, Gizewski E, Schoch B.
Current advances in lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum. . In Neuroscience 2009 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print]
May 21, 2009
Congratulations to ICD doctoral students Amy Monn and Laura Supkoff who have been awarded prestigious 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awards, as well as to Rachel White and Cathy Hayakawa who received Honorable Mentions. This annual national competition is very tough, and both Fellowship awards and Honorable Mentions are a great testament to the outstanding quality of an applicant's work and ideas.
Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D. professor in Kinesiology has published an article with Jane Yank, Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology.
"The Postural Responses of Adults Who Are Blind to a Moving Environment" by Thomas A. Stoffregen, Kiyohide Ito, Philip Hove, Jane Redfield Yank, and Benoit G. Bardy, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.
May 19, 2009
Katie Anderson, M.A. candidate in Kinesiology, has been awarded the 2009 Eloise M. Jaeger Scholarship for Students at the Tucker Center. Anderson's research interests focus on youth physical activity and sedentary behaviors.
The Changing Landscapes Committee at the Institute on Community Integration, co-chaired by Megan Dushin and Pat Salmi, has received a $10,000 grant from the University’s Imagine Fund (supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation), plus a $3,500 grant from the University’s Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Achievement (IDEA) fund, to produce an arts and disability symposium and exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum in fall 2009. The print shown was painted by Richard Brown, an artist with Partnership Resources, Inc.
May 18, 2009
Seohee Son, Ph.D. candidate in Family Social Science is the recipient of a 2009-10 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School. The fellowship is intended to enable Ph.D. candidates of particular promise to devote full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation during 2009-10.
Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, was quoted in a May 17 Star Tribune article on summer fitness activities. Read the article at the Star Tribune.
May 14, 2009
Kinesiology undergraduate student, Heather Dorniden was awarded a President's Student Leadership and Service Award along with a University of Minnesota Alumni Association Leadership Award. Her academic and athletic accomplishments are detailed in the UMNews article: Big fish, big pond.
Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, published in collaboration with two colleagues: Bruno Mantel and Benoit Bardy, Ph.D., at the University of Montpellier-1, France. Mantel is a student working toward his Ph.D. under the supervision of Bardy and Stoffregen.
Mantel, B., Bardy, B. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Locomotor assessment of whether an object is reachable. Ecological Psychology, in press.
Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, will be speaking at the Minnesota Athletic Trainers' Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in St. Cloud on May 16. Her talk is on "Using effective interaction skills in sports medicine practice."
Wiese-Bjornstal also will have an article published based on her presentation at the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium in Washington D.C., January 2009: Wiese-Bjornstal, D.M. (in press). Sport injury and college athlete health across the lifespan. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport.
May 13, 2009
Curriculum and Instruction has instituted and awarded two new C&I graduate student awards in 2009. The first, an award for Outstanding Graduate Instructor, was awarded to Mary E. Lee-Nichols, a Ph.D. candidate in the Culture and Teaching track (adviser: Tim Lensmire). The second, an award for Outstanding Research Paper, was granted to Pamela Wesely, a student in the Second Languages and Cultures Education track (adviser: Diane Tedick). Dr. Wesely just defended her dissertation and graduated last week.
These two recipients and all the nominees for these awards were honored Saturday, May 9, at C&I's Graduate Studies Open House celebration, an annual gathering to congratulate our M.A. and Ph.D. graduates.
Please join the Curriculum and Instruction community in congratulating their two Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipients. Selcen Guzey (PhD candidate in the science education track, adviser Gill Roehrig) and Phebe Jatau (PhD candidate in the literacy education track, adviser Tim Lensmire) have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2009-2010 from the Graduate School. Guzey's dissertation employs an interpretive multiple case study design and focuses on science teachers who are able to use technology in meaningful ways to teach students not only how to learn science but how to "do" science. Jatau's interpretive ethnography study explores the experiences of young women in schools in her native country, Nigeria; specifically, she is interested in the meaning of schooling for them and how this relates to their ongoing participation (or not) in educational institutions.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, was featured on Dave Zirin's XM radio show, The Edge of Sports, responding to the question "does sex sell women's sport?"
Zirin was Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year and writes about sports for the Nation Magazine, is a columnist for SLAM Magazine, the Progressive, and a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times.
May 12, 2009
Comments by William Doherty, Ph.D., Family Social Science professor, were featured in a WCCO TV report called "Should Parents Stay Together for the Kids?" He feels strongly that couples should get help in repairing their marriages rather than ending them. View the WCCO report.
Stacy Danov, doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2009-2010. These prestigious fellowships allow a select number of students to devote full-time effort to their dissertations during their final year of study.
Danov's studies focus on how neuroleptic medication affects positively and negatively reinforced severe problem behavior in children with developmental disabilities. Frank Symons, Ph.D., serves as her adviser.
May 8, 2009
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, will give a talk to the St. Cloud chapter of the AAUW on Tuesday, May 12. She will discuss research findings from the 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, "Developing Physically Active Girls." For more information on the event, see the article in sctimes.com .
May 7, 2009
Julie Markant, Ph.D. candidate in Child Psychology, has been awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2009-2010. These Fellowships are awarded each year to a select number of students in their final year of study to enable them to devote full-time effort to dissertation research and writing.
Julie is focusing her studies on how learning and attention develop in infants through interaction with the world around them, despite the overwhelming amount of incoming stimuli. Katie Thomas is her adviser.
Congratulations, Julie!
Dante Cicchetti will give a plenary presentation entitled "Developmental Psychopathology in Action" at the 2009 American Psychological Association Convention in Toronto, Ontario, August 6-9.
Senior kinesiology student Jennifer Ojiaku was profiled in UMNews. A video and write up are available at On the run: Senior kinesiology student looks at exercise and rehabilitation from every angle.
Rayla Allison, J.D., lecturer in Sport Management, was interviewed May 6 by WCCO-TV on the business worth that Brett Favre could bring to the Vikings.
Julie Hughes, Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology, has been awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2009-2010. These fellowships are awarded each year to a select number of students in their final year of study to enable them to devote full-time effort to dissertation research and writing.
Hughes is an exercise physiology student pursuing research in identifying modifiable and hormonal risk factors for osteoporosis in older men. Moira Petit, Ph.D, associate professor, serves as Hughes' adviser.
Nickie Chang, Ph. D., Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, and Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, have a recent paper to be published in the Journal of Motor Behavior. Chang is a former School of Kinesiology Ph.D. student. Wade served as Chang's adviser.
Chang, C.-H., Wade, M. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Perceiving affordances for aperture passage in an environment-person-person system. Journal of Motor Behavior, in press.
Carol Leitschuh, Ph.D., research associate in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, gave an invited presentation on April 9th to faculty and graduate students of the Psychology Department at The University of New York at Prague. The title of her talk was "The value of a physically active life: Infancy - youth." Leitschuh also gave this presentation April 28th to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Pedagogy at Palacky University.
Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical in Geneva, Italy, gave two invited presentations in France on May 4 and 5. In Paris he presented to the College de France, one of the oldest premier research institutions in the country. The title of his talk was "The cerebellum and motor control: Lessons from how well children recover from injury to the cerebellum."
At the University of Dijon, Konczak spoke to an interdisciplinary group of musicians, pediatricians, and movement scientists on "Learning how to play the violin: insights into how children acquire complex motor skills."
May 6, 2009
Beth Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has been awarded an NIH grant for her proposal entitled "Efficacy of an Exercise Intervention for the Prevention of PostPartum Depression." The grant is for $389,000 over two years.
Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, will present a lecture at the Medical School on the Duluth campus titled "The Decline of Arterial Health in Children: The Roles of Obesity and Physical Activity. The lecture is scheduled for May 8 at noon in the UMD School of Medicine. For more information, see Medical School Duluth Seminar Series.
May 4, 2009
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Dr. Art Leon, professor in Kinesiology, and his former student Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., research associate in the School of Nursing, have had their article, "Hypertension: Lifestyle Modifications for its Prevention and Management," accepted by the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The article is the centerpiece of the journal's issue on "Lifestyle Management of High Blood Pressure." The journal's reviewer commented, "It is, in a word, 'superb.' The manuscript does exactly what I hoped for--which is provide in one comprehensive review the scientific basis for why lifestyle interventions are so effective both in helping to prevent and manage high blood pressure."
The manuscript will be published in the November-December 2009 issue.
Curriculum and Instruction alumna Amber Place Damm (M.Ed. '02), a seventh- and eighth-grade English and language arts teacher at Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis, was named 2009 Minnesota Teacher of the Year on Sunday, May 3. She is also Minnesota's nominee for National Teacher of the Year for 2010.
Monday, May 4, 2009 Minneapolis Star Tribune article
KARE 11 news interview with Amber Damm.
Teacher of the Year Minnesota blog article
Minnesota Public Radio article and photo
May 1, 2009
Tommy Valentini, doctoral student in sport and exercise psychology and advisee of Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center associate director, will be the Head Men's Tennis Coach at Gustavus Adolphus College starting fall of 2009. Valentini will take the helm from Steve Wilkinson who is retiring from coaching after 39 years. Valentini will also help run the popular Tennis & Life Camps at Gustavus. Congratulations!
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