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July 29, 2009
Dr. Halil Dundar, Ph.D. in Higher Education (1993) from the Department of Educational Policy and Administration, has been appointed as the lead education specialist/education economist for the South Asian Region of the World Bank. The position is located in the Bank's Washington D.C. office, although he will spend considerable time on mission activities in South Asia.
July 28, 2009
Family Social Science Professor Emeritus James Maddock died of cancer on July 18 at age 67. Dr. Maddock worked at the University of Minnesota for 36 years. He was a founder of the University of Minnesota Medical School Program in Human Sexuality, former president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and co-founder, with his wife, Noel Larson, of Meta Resources Psychotherapy and Training Institute in St. Paul. A celebration of his life will be held on Sunday, August 16, 2 p.m., in the atrium of McNeal Hall on the St. Paul campus. Memorials are preferred; contributions may be made to the University of Minnesota Foundation with a notation designating the contribution to the Department of Family Social Science Neubeck Scholarship Fund (Fund # 2191). More information is available at his Caring Bridge Web site.
July 27, 2009
The Minn-Link project in the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare has released a follow-up to a study of changes in school attendance for children whose families had contact with child welfare services four years earlier. The original study found the school attendance of 71.9% of children had improved one year after receiving some type of services. The MinnLInk study indicates that children whose attendance initially improved one year after services generally maintained better attendance for up three years later compared to children whose attendance did not initially improve. Read the study.
July 24, 2009
Kelli Blankenship, the 2009 Tucker Center McNair Scholar, will present work she has completed under associate director Nicole LaVoi's mentorship at the McNair Poster Presentation, Tuesday, July 28 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.at the Mississippi Room at Coffman. Her poster is titled, Not All Sport Parents Are "Out of Control": The Happy Side of Youth Sports.
July 23, 2009
Matthew Burns, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, was recently inducted into the Society for the Study of School Psychology. SSSP's mission is to promote and recognize scholarship and research in school psychology.
Ernest Davenport, Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, contributed toward a recent story on the achievement gap between black and white students in Minnesota on Minnesota Public Radio .
Jay Samuels, Ed.D., professor in Educational Psychology, recently submitted a letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune regarding the contributions to teacher education by the troubled Gang Strike Force.
July 22, 2009
Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, has made the media rounds recently with interviews on cyclist Lance Armstrong's extraordinary physical abilities as he competes in this year's Tour de France. Two more articles were published today, one in MinnPost and on the U of M's homepage.
Ingraham's master's student, Greg Rhodes, was also interviewed for the U of M article.
July 21, 2009
Arthur Leon, M.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, and Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., Leon's former student and research associate in the School of Nursing, have published the article, "Dyslipidemia and risk of coronary heart disease: Role of lifestyle approaches for its management," in the July issue of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The article was featured on the MDLinx.com site, which publishes the most up-to-date health information for medical professionals. Dr. Leon also published "Biological mechanisms for the cardioprotective effects of aerobic exercise" in the same issue of American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology gave a presentation recently at a four day international workshop on Musculoskeletal Systems and Computational Neuroscience. The workshop was organized by the Polytechnical University of Milan. Konczak presented on how well children recover their motor and cognitive function after removal of a tumor in the cerebellum.
The Tucker Center is now on Facebook! Become a fan of the TC to keep up to date on the latest news and events.
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, gave a keynote presentation at DCD VIII: Developmental Coordination Disorder International Conference, in Baltimore, MD. The title of her presentation was, "Motivating youth to be physically active: Strategies for children with developmental delay."
July 20, 2009
On July 1 the University of Minnesota became home to the state's first-ever federally-funded LEND program (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities), coordinated by the Department of Pediatrics and the Institute on Community Integration (ICI). Funded by a two-year, $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, to the Department of Pediatrics, the Minnesota LEND is an interdisciplinary training program preparing future leaders who will serve children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, other neurodevelopmental and related disabilities, and their families in health care, education, human services, and policy settings.
July 16, 2009
William Doherty, Ph.D., professor in the Family Social Science department at the University of Minnesota, was interviewed for a Kare11 story on "boomerang kids."
The Tucker Center now has a multimedia archive of its past Distinguished Lectures available online. The archive includes streaming videos, powerpoint presentations and other informative resources from a variety of topics related to gender and sport.
July 15, 2009
Family businesses in general have better chances of making it through recessions than other businesses, according to Sharon Danes, a Family Social Science professor who specializes in family business. The StarTribune quoted Danes in an article about the large number of family teams in the real estate industry. Read the article.
July 14, 2009
A new funded study begins this week in Kinesiology's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science called HEARTEN (How exercise and relaxation impacts cardiovascular function in women with coronary artery disease). Ruth Lindquist, Ph.D., R.N., professor in the School of Nursing, is the PI on the study. Art Leon, M.D., professor in Kinesiology, and his former doctoral student Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Nursing, are co-PIs and will perform the cardiovascular assessments.
Maria Camacho Miñano began her three-month residence as a visiting scholar in the Tucker Center on July 13. She will be working on studying US literature surrounding physical activity among adolescent girls and body image and physical activity, along with various other planned scholarly activities.
Dr. Camacho Miñano hails from Spain and is faculty member at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, second-year sport sociology doctoral student and research assistant Austin Calhoun and Erin Becker, former program associate and sport & exercise psychology alumnus, all recently participated in endurance events in Minnesota.
LaVoi took part in the Larkin Hoffman MS 150 Ride, raising money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in June. Calhoun and Becker both competed in the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon on July 11 as members of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training Program.
July 9, 2009
Jeffrey Nurick of the Institute on Community Integration was featured in a July 8 Fox9 News story in which he talked about what he's learned about doing a successful job search as a person with a disability.
Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, was interviewed on KARE-11's 10 p.m. news July 8 on the physical renown of Lance Armstrong as he returns to the Tour de France after a 4-year absence. Also interviewed was Kinesiology M.A. student Greg Rhodes. Read the short interview Lance Armstrong 'genetic freak' says U of M professor and see the clip at http://tinyurl.com/kjcfm9.
Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, gave the Senior Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in Austin, TX. The title of her presentation was, "Children in sport and physical activity: What, so what, now what?"
Art Leon, M.D., Kinesiology professor and director of the School's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science, participated in the International XX Puijo Symposium in Kuopio, Finland, June 20-29. He presented on the cardiac benefits and risk of exercise, particularly in sudden death due to either occult coronary artery disease or in young athletes due to inherited cardiovascular conditions. Dr. Leon also chaired a session to select Outstanding Young Investigator.
Dr. Leon has been invited to participate in conferences in Finland since 1978 and the biennial Puijo symposium in Kuopio since 1982. There is a long history between LPHES and Finland beginning in the 1960s, when renowned U of M researcher Ancel Keys and Marti Karvonen, an exercise physiologist and former Surgeon General of Finland, started the famous Seven Countries Study, which posed the hypothesis that differences among populations in the frequency of heart attacks and stroke would occur in some orderly relation to physical characteristics and lifestyle, particularly diet composition and fats in the diet.
July 7, 2009
The 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA-15) will be held July 12-17, 2009, at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus. Hosted by the University's School of Kinesiology, the Center for Cognitive Sciences, and the Center for Clinical Movement Science, and the International Society for Ecological Psychology, this conference will bring together researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds to discuss issues broadly related to perception and action. Session and poster topics cover a wide range of areas, such as robotics, human and animal cognition, human factors and tool use, speech-language production and perception, and dynamical systems modeling. The conference, which has attracted over 100 academics and professionals from around the world, is coordinated by School of Kinesiology professors Tom Stoffregen and Michael Wade.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in The Nation. The article "Sexism on Centre Court" talks about how sexualized images of female athletes are ineffective at marketing women's tennis and other women's sports.
July 6, 2009
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will take on sports' most grueling test this summer, looking to claim his eighth victory. Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D. lecturer in Kinesiology, says Armstrong's entire body is built for the bike.
This podcast is also available on iTunes.
July 1, 2009
A team of Ph.D. students in Comparative and International Development Education, together with two other students from the Humphrey Institute (Juliet Lyon) and the College of Continuing Education (Hindolo Pokawa), received a grant of $46,811 from the Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Graduate School.
All of the students in EdPA are members of the entering group of Ph.D. students for fall 2008. Members of the team are as follows: Christina Kwauk, Soo Kyoung Lee, Ya Liu, Brent Ruter, Amanda Sanchez, Casey Stafford, Somongkol Teng, Tryggvi Thayer, Li Yang, and Maiyia Yang.
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