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June 30, 2009
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an Orange County Register article "Girls of Summer still making an impact." The article talks about the impact of the victory over the past decade and some of the continued barriers women face in big league sports.
June 26, 2009
Mark Schelske, Ph.D., educational psychology, [Stan Deno adviser] professor and chair of the Education Department and TRiO faculty adviser at St .Olaf, died June 24th, 2009.
Mark passed away peacefully at dawn at Mayo Methodist hospital with his wife Janis Johnson [M.A., CSPP, and M.A., adult education,1984] and family present.
The St. Olaf web page features an article about Mark.
There is also a caring bridge web site.
In lieu of flowers, gifts to the family or to a charity of the donors choice preferred.
Monday June 29
2 to 3 PM visitation
3 to 4 + memorial service
reception following memorial light refreshments and beverages
Eagan Community Center
1501 Central Parkway
Eagan MN 55121
Central Parkway is just a few blocks north of 35E on Yankee Doodle Road
651 675 5550
www.eagancommunitycenter.com
Interment: Private for family
June 25, 2009
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center and research associate in the School of Kinesiology, and Chelsey Thul, research assistant in the Tucker Center and graduate assistant in the Physical Activity Social and Behavioral Science area of the School of Kinesiology, were awarded the prestigious Staff Award and a Graduate Student Award respectively from CEHD's Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle at a ceremony on June 16, 2009.
Dr. LaVoi will be using her $2,275 award to attend the 5th World Conference on Women and Sport in Sydney, Australia, in 2010. Ms. Thul's award of $2,000 will be used to create a culturally relevant East African girls physical activity program for 25 adolescent girls.
June 24, 2009
Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), was interviewed on WCCO News Radio June 24 to discuss the possible signing of Brett Favre by the Vikings. Dr. Ross discussed the positive and negative impact on fans as well as the financial implications for the Vikings and its quest for a new stadium. Dr. Ross will also be appearing on WCCO's Saturday Afternoon with Steve Thomson on June 27.
Watch Dr. Ross discuss the Favre debate on the U News Service.
June 23, 2009
"My Father's Bookshelf," a new play at the Guthrie Theater, used researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Wayne Caron Family Caregiving Center in Family Social Science, to develop a performance piece that educates as much as it entertains. Read the article in UMNews, or listen on the Minnesota Public Radio Web site.
June 22, 2009
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, has been invited to be part of a keynote panel at the Up2Us Regional Conference in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, June 30th. The conference is sponsored in part by the LA84 Foundation .
LaVoi will discuss the role of coaches in facilitating positive youth development. LaVoi is part of the Up2Us Research Advisory Committee and co-developed an Up2Us research paper on "Sports-based youth development for girls", which will be available by late summer.
Bic Ngo, Ph.D., assistant professor and Martha Bigelow, Ph.D., associate professor (Curriculum and Instruction) received a President's Interdisciplinary Conference award from the Graduate School to convene a conference in Spring 2010. The conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? It will engage university and community colleagues from a variety of disciplines and interests in consideration of ethics and epistemology in research practices and preparation of future researchers. Participants will focus attention on the possibilities and problematics of research with immigrant youth, adults and community members. The conference emphasizes the implications of practices in research design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves immigrant populations. These conversations will include concerns related to IRB as well as those that move beyond IRB.
In a letter published in the New York Times, Pauline Boss, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Family Social Science, commented on the crash of Air France Flight 447. She noted that the families left with no body to bury suffer "ambiguous loss." Boss, who has written two books on ambiguous loss, noted, "The lack of closure causes families for many generations to ache for proof." Read the letter.
June 18, 2009
Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., assistant professor in Family Social Science and the Institute of Child Development, has received the Rising Star award for 2008-2009 from the Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle. This award is given to a pre-tenure female faculty member in the College of Education and Human Development who has demonstrated leadership and creativity in an academic area as shown by research, teaching and service. Congratulations, Abi!
June 17, 2009
Catherine Solheim, Ph.D., associate professor in Family Social Science, says one shortcoming of many high school and college students is that "most don't have good handle on what it costs them to live." In an article in Finance and Commerce, she talks about what she teaches students about managing their finances.
Read the full article: Personal finance tips for grads and other young folks.
June 16, 2009
The Star Tribune featured PhD candidate Brock Dubbels, who uses video games to teach his middle school students at Seward Montessori in Minneapolis. Through Dubbels' Video as Learning Tools class, students create multimedia presentations on how a game is designed and how players might win. In the process, they work on writing, reading comprehension, working cooperatively, and incorporating technology into their studies.
This summer, Dubbels plans to present at the Games in Education Conference in New York and at the Games+Learning+Society Conference in Wisconsin. He is also sharing his approach with other teachers.
Read the full article: Video games: Play and learn
Photo by Bruce Bisping, Star Tribune
Former CEHD Dean Steve Yussen, professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Institute of Child Development, has been named editor of AERA's flagship journal, Educational Researcher. Deborah Dillon, Guy Bond Chair in Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and educational psychology professor Michael Harwell join Yussen as associate editors.
Yussen brings more than 35 years of scholarly experience to this new endeavor. In the past he has served as associate editor of Child Development and the Journal of Educational Psychology, as a reviewer for numerous scholarly journals, and as an editorial advisory board member. His own research, which centers on cognitive development, instructional psychology, memory, learning, and reading comprehension in school-age children, has been widely published.
The American Educational Research Association publishes Educational Researcher nine times each year for its members. The peer-reviewed journal features scholarly articles, reviews, analyses, and commentary of importance to the broad community of education researchers.
James Hearn, of the University of Georgia, will join the University of Minnesota faculty as an associate editor.
The full text of AERA's announcement is available here.
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has co-authored an article just published in the American Journal of Public Health:
Melissa C. Nelson, Nicole I. Larson, Daheia Barr-Anderson, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, and Mary Story. Disparities in dietary intake, meal patterning, and home food environments among young adult nonstudents and 2- and 4-year college students. Am J Public Health 2009 99: 1216-1219.
William Doherty, Ph.D., professor in the Family Social Science department at the University of Minnesota, wrote an editorial in the St. Paul Pioneer Press contending that President Obama seems to be forgetting his call for civic engagement by ordinary people. Doherty and co-author Albert Dzur contend that "the administration seems poised to take the road most commonly traveled in health care and alleviating social problems. Instead of 'we the people' tackling problems together, it's starting to look like a version of 'we the experts' leading the masses." Read the full editorial.
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has just received a New Connections grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The two-year grant will support Barr-Anderson's work focusing on perceived and objective environmental influences on physical activity among high school girls. The New Connections grant will complement Barr-Anderson's NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant to study environmental influences of overweight and obesity among African American adolescent girls.
June 15, 2009
Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow, Ph.D., (Curriculum and Instruction), has two featured articles in this month's issue of AERA's flagship journal, Educational Researcher, and two articles forthcoming in the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication and the journal of Learning, Media and Technology related to her research on learning with social media:
Greenhow, C. et al. (2009). Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 246-259.
Greenhow, C. et al. (2009). Research on Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0: Bridging Conversations. Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 280-283.
She is also the recipient of a second year of funding ($10,000) from the Institute for Advanced Study for the interdisciplinary research consortium she founded in 2007 (www.socialnetresearch.org) and involving faculty in computer science, design, internet studies, new media and education. Greenhow will be a visiting fellow (2009-2010) at Yale University's Information and Society Project focused on digital education and policy, and a participant in the Cyberscholars program with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet Studies and MIT's comparative media program, before joining the faculty of Arizona State University.
June 11, 2009
Professor Mark Umbreit received the John W. Byrd Pioneer Award for Restorative and Community Justice at the National Conference on Restorative Justice in Austin, Texas, in May 2009. Umbreit is the director of the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking in the School of Social Work. He also received a Peacemaking Award from the Montana Community Mediation Program in late April.
Professor Terry Lum, together with Professors Robert Kane and Rosalie Kane from the School of Public Health, will travel to Hong Kong in July to conduct a two-week training program on intervention research in gerontology for faculty from various Hong Kong colleges. Professor Lum will conduct a workshop on program evaluation at a July 27-29, 2009, conference on productive aging at Shandong University in China. The conference is organized by the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, and is part of the International Symposium and Lectures in Social Policy initiated by the Social Policy Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Lum received a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship to develop a new collaboration for comparative study of families in Chinese societies. The award will support his efforts to build collaboration between researchers who are interested in Chinese family research in Minnesota, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China.
Professor Victoria Raveis will address the psychosocial issues facing seriously ill adults and the health-related demands and challenges confronting families in aging during her discussion, “The Shared Journey: Chronic Illness & the Aging Family in the 21st Century,” Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The discussion will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Peters Hall on the University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus. Raveis will share her research that has documented the diversity and contributions of the family caring unit, and how her research has informed the development of resources and programs to address family needs. Raveis is co-director of the Aging and Health Program and associate professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
June 10, 2009
Erin Becker, 3-year veteran Tucker Center Program Associate and graduate student in sport & exercise psychology, now working for Health Fitness Incorporation, has successfully defended her Masters thesis entitled "Gender Regimes in a Youth Soccer Organization: Homologous Reproduction and Marginalization of Female Coaches." Please join us in congratulating Erin. We will miss her very much.
June 9, 2009
Felix Amenumey, doctoral candidate in WHRE with an emphasis in HRD, has been selected as the 2009-2010 recipient of the Gary N. McLean Graduate Fellowship in International Human Resource Development. Congratulations to Felix who is the first recipient of this fellowship!
June 8, 2009
Alicia Johnson, a senior Exercise Science major at Minnesota State University Mankato, will be interning with the Tucker Center this summer. Johnson will be working on various projects in sport media research with Associate Director Nicole LaVoi. Johnson is an advisee of Dr. Cindra Kamphoff.
June 5, 2009
Kelli Blankenship, a 2009 McNair Scholar and member of the U of M Women's Hockey Team, will be working this summer in the Tucker Center with mentor and Associate Director Nicole LaVoi. Blankenship will be examining the emotional experiences of youth sport parents.
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Arthur S. Leon, M.D., professor in Kinesiology, will be attending the 20th International Puijo Symposium in Kuopio, Finland, June 23-26. He is an invited speaker and will chair a session at the symposium. The conference theme is "Physical Exercise in Health Promotion and Medical Care."
June 4, 2009
As part of its celebration of Gay Pride Week, the Walker Arts Center has invited Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, to give a post-screening critique of the must-see new documentary Training Rules. Professor Kane—an internationally recognized scholar in the field of sport and gender—will also lead what promises to be a lively Q&A discussion with the audience on this groundbreaking film which explores the impact of homophobia in women's sports. Oscar-nominated director Dee Mosbacher's (Straight from the Heart) documentary focuses on student-athlete Jennifer Harris's 2006 lawsuit against Penn State University and women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who had three strict training rules during her 26-year tenure—no drinking, no drugs, and no lesbians. The event takes place on Wednesday, June 24, at 7:00 p.m. at the Walker Arts Center's Cinema auditorium and lecture hall. Tickets are $6 for Walker members and $8 for the general public.
At the NASSM conference in Columbia, SC, last week, Stephen Ross, Ph.D., presented several papers along with Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., and doctoral candidate Heather Maxwell and doctoral student Clinton Warren. The University of Minnesota was well represented at the conference by current faculty and students as well as former students (Pat Walsh, Ph.D. 2008; Jina Bang, Ph.D. 2007; and James Chien, Ph.D. 2006).
Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), was recently named a Research Fellow in the North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM). Ross was also promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure this spring.
June 1, 2009
A five-year project aimed at helping at-risk families attain long-term stability against often formidable odds came to an end on May 30. The project, directed by Bill Doherty, Ph.D., Family Social Science professor, was featured in an article in the Star Tribune. The federally and state-funded "Minnesota Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative" studied unmarried couples with children. The goal was to help the couples develop the skills to keep their families intact. Read more in the Star Tribune.
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