Ngoh-Tiong Tan, PhD ('88), has been named Dean, School of Human Development and Social Services at the Singapore Institute of Management, better known as UniSIM. He will oversee graduate programs in social work and counseling as well as undergraduate programs in social work, counseling, human resources, and child education.

Prof. Tan was a tenured Professor at Augsburg College before he joined UniSIM. He spent 17 years at the National University of Singapore's Department of Social Work.Over the years, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Oslo University and Sydney University.He has extensive experience and research in social work, social enterprise, dispute and conflict resolution, parenting and community mediation, dynamics of change and crisis and disaster management. He has served and contributed in numerous social work organizations and agencies in Singapore and abroad.

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Educational Psychology is pleased to announce that Professors Asha Jitendra and Jennifer McComas were awarded an NIH stimulus grant to fund their study on improving problem-solving performance of students with mathematics difficulties. This two-year project will test the efficacy of a fully developed intervention (Schema-Based Instruction, SBI) with approximately 260 third graders in the Twin Cities.

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Joan DeJaeghere, Ph.D., assistant professor in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, presented at the United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) in Oxford, England on "Beyond Gender Mainstreaming: Equality and Empowerment for Girls and Boys" as part of a panel with Dr. Shirley Miske, Miske Witt and Associates, and Joyce Adolwa, CARE- USA. The presentations were based on a research conducted in partnership with CARE USA, for which Joan DeJaeghere is a co-PI (with Chris Johnstone).

UKFIET is an international conference that brings together researchers and practitioners concerned with international development and education. This year's conference had participants from 55 different countries.

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Dr. Art Leon, professor of kinesiology, and Ulf Bronas, research associate in the School of Nursing, have published another article in the latest edition of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The title of the article, "Pathophysiology of coronary heart disease and biological mechanisms for the cardioprotective effects of regular aerobic exercise," appears in the September/October publication's State of the Art Reviews.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor of Kinesiology, will be among the faculty speaking at the upcoming Twin Cities Sports Medicine Conference on October 2-3. Wiese-Bjornstal will be speaking on "Sport Specialization for Young Athletes." The conference, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Office of Continuing Medical Education, is being held in Minneapolis at the Radisson University Hotel.

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Experts and community leaders from the University of Kufa, located in Najaf, Iraq, will join University of Minnesota faculty for a symposium on the importance of clean water for health, education, and public life. The public symposium, titled Water for Peace: An Iraqi-U.S. Partnership, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 2-4:30 p.m. in Room 64 of the University of Minnesota Biological Sciences Building, 1455 Gortner Ave., St. Paul.

This program brings together a multi-disciplinary panel of speakers to discuss the impact of clean water on many dimensions of civic life and how a bilateral community organizing effort can mobilize citizens to impact community health issues. The panel will be followed by small group discussions with Iraqi community leaders.

A delegation of 12 Iraqi scholars and civic leaders arrived in Minnesota Sept. 12 for the first official exchange in a new sister city relationship between Najaf and Minneapolis. The University has played a vital role in the ongoing partnership and future collaborations are expected. The Iraqis have spent their time in Minnesota exploring opportunities for future partnerships with faculty at the U of M and seeing sights around the Twin Cities and the state.

According to a recent report by the United Nations, lack of access to clean water poses a significant threat to the health of Iraqi children. In the province of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, a unique partnership has developed to help meet the challenge of providing clean water at schools, hospitals, and clinics. An Iraqi NGO, the Muslim Peacemaker Teams, has partnered with a Minnesota non-profit, the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project, to install water filtration systems in important public sites in Najaf.

The Water for Peace symposium is sponsored by the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project, the Muslim Peacemaker Teams, and U of M's Department of Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development and Office of International Programs.

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The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare would like to announce
an upcoming workshop, Learning Dreams: A Strategy for Promoting
Educational Engagement for Families in the Child Welfare System.
Jerry Stein, Ph.D., senior fellow in the School of Social Work,
will present the Learning Dreams model for educational engagement as a
tool for child welfare workers to use to motivate youth and help them
make long term progress in their lives. It will also teach workers how
to use creative community building strategies to effectively support the
learning dreams of youth in the child welfare system.

Learning Dreams is built on the premise that actively supporting a culture of learning in
homes and communities creates a foundation for students' educational
success.

Date: Wednesday, October 21
Time: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak Street, Minneapolis

For more information and to register, please visit the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare's Web site.

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Celebrate Book Week 2009 with Susan Marie Swanson, the author of The House In The Night, The 2009 Caldecott Award Book.

Book Week activities take place October 13 - 15, 2009

Book display, Andersen Library Atrium [map]
noon to 6:15 p.m., Tuesday, October 13
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 14
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, October 15

Review of new books, Willey Hall Auditorium [map]
4 - 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 13
Appetizers* from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Evening lecture,* Willey Hall Auditorium [map]
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 13

* $15 charge for appetizers and/or lecture
Please send checks made out to the University of Minnesota to Cathy Zemke, Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455.

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A new edition of New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, co-edited by Professor Thomas Swiss, (Curriculum and Instruction, Culture and Teaching), has just been published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press. By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms,New Media Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics.

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Darrell Lewis, professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration and former associate dean of the College of Education and Human Development, passed away on September 20, 2009 after an aggressive battle with lung cancer.

Full obituary available in the Star Tribune.

Visitation will be on Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 5:00-8:00 pm at David Lee Funeral Home, 1220 East Wayzata Blvd., Wayzata. Funeral service will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:00 am at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2060 6th Ave. North, Long Lake, with visitation 1 hour prior to service. Graveside service will be held at the First Lutheran Church of Highland Cemetery in Highland, MN. Memorials may be directed to either University of Minnesota Masonic Center Lung Cancer Research or Highland Lutheran Church.

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The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport has created a new blog in conjunction with its Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture on sport, gender and social media. The first post, Social Media: What it is and Why it Matters to Women's Sports, went live on Monday. Look for guest bloggers, Dr. Marie Hardin and Dave Zirin, later this week!

Content from the Tucker Center's discussion of Michael Sokolove's controversial book, Warrior Girls, has also been migrated to the blog.

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George Biltz, M.D., lecturer in exercise physiology at the School of Kinesiology, has been awarded a $1,200 travel grant from the CEHD Office of International Programs, with matching funds from the School, to support his attendance at the 25th Pediatric Work Physiology Conference. The biennial conference, supported by the University of Lille, will be held September 29 to October 3 in the Palais de l'Europe in Le Touquet Paris Plage on the Côte d'Opale, north of Paris. On alternate years, the conference is hosted by the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM).

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Jean King, Ph.D. and Jennifer York-Barr Ph.D., both professors in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, are featured in the article Model Educators posted on UMNews.

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Steve Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in sport management at the School of Kinesiology, along with colleagues from Towson University and University of Miami has had two papers accepted for the 7th Annual Sport Marketing Association (SMA) conference. Ross and colleagues will present "The impact of brand extensions on the brand associations of a professional sports team" and "Brand Personalities across the Big Four: Positioning Leagues for Differentiation" at the conference in Cleveland, Ohio, October, 28-30, 2009.

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Steve Ross, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management, was quoted in two publications related to the fan attention garnered by Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, despite the negative publicity around Favre's on-again, off-again retirement. See the stories in Canadian Press and Brownsville Herald.

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Henry Wellman, Ph.D., (ICD 1975) professor in psychology and research professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan, was recently named a Collegiate Professor. As part of this distinctive award, the recipient names their "chair" in honor of someone who was important to them in their field, and Wellman chose Harold W. Stevenson, PhD, professor and director of ICD from 1959-1971 and professor at the University of Michigan thereafter, and someone Dr. Wellman describes as a "mentor, friend, and foundation" for his career.

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The Family Social Science Roundtable is sponsoring a discussion with Tracy Templin, assistant director of admissions for the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She will provide undergraduates with information about the school's master's degree programs in social work and public health.

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Jens Omli, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development, will be presenting a paper titled "The Emotional Experience of Youth Sport Parenting" at the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Conference on September 18th. The paper was co-authored with Nicole LaVoi, PhD, Associate Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, and recent Kinesiology graduates Sarah Hammon and Erin Morris.

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On Monday, September 7th, members of the Institute of Child Development staffed a booth for the ICD Participant Pool (IPP) at the Minnesota State Fair, and it was a smashing success! Albert Yonas, PhD, professor, and Stephanie Carlson, PhD, associate professor, had stage time during which they presented testing tasks they typically use in their research labs. The IPP registered 237 children, mostly preschool and early school-age. Booth staffers handed out 500 puzzles and 500 rattles with contact information on them, and lots of people took registration cards to mail back. They also were able to tell people about the brand-new online enrollment form and are already receiving responses that indicated they heard about the IPP at the state fair!

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Michelle Everson, Ph.D., lecturer in Educational Psychology, recently published an article, "10 Things I've Learned about Teaching Online" in eLearn Magazine.

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Stephanie Carlson, Ph.D., associate professor in the Institute of Child Development, gave an invited address entitled "Executive Function: Normative Development and Individual Differences" at the 2009 annual American Psychological Association convention in Toronto, Canada. Her presentation was selected as a "Highlight of the APA Conference" and featured online in About Kids Health, an online news and information outlet for of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.

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Kinesiology doctoral candidate Jane Yank is presenting at the International Graphonomics Society meeting at the University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, September 13-16, 2009. The topic of her talk is "Visuomotor Tracking in a Pursuit Loop-drawing Task," in which she discusses the effects of concurrent visual feedback on timing and fluidity in hand movements.

Ms. Yank co-authored the paper with Arend Van Gemmert, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Ms. Yank's adviser is Dr. Michael Wade.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a colleague and a graduate student in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Yawen Yu is a graduate student in APAL.

Stoffregen, T. A., Villard, S., & Yu, Y. (2009). Body sway at sea for two visual tasks and three stance widths. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, in press.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor of Kinesiology, will be in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 16 - 18, 2009 to participate in the International Consensus Conference on "Performance in Sports involving Intense Exercise." Thirty internationally acknowledged researchers together with representatives from the world of sport will take part in this consensus conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen and Team Denmark, culminating in the production of a series of statements and recommendations that can be used by decision makers in sport, politics, and economy. Wiese-Bjornstal will be speaking on the roles of psychology and socioculture in sport injury risk, response, and recovery in high intensity athletes.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, and Jens Omli, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development and former advisee of Wiese-Bjornstal, have been awarded a $212,000 grant over two years from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. The grant will implement the International Sport Connection Soccer Coach Education program in collaboration with the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. Wiese-Bjornstal and Omli will travel to Uganda January 2010 and 2011 with a delegation of U.S. coaches. They will host a delegation of Ugandan coaches, who will travel to Minnesota for advanced training this October, and again in October 2010.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, and Jens Omli, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development and former advisee of Wiese-Bjornstal, have been awarded a $212,000 grant over two years from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. The grant will implement the International Sport Connection Soccer Coach Education program in collaboration with the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. Wiese-Bjornstal and Omli will travel to Uganda January 2010 and 2011 with a delegation of U.S. coaches. They will host a delegation of Ugandan coaches, who will travel to Minnesota for advanced training this October, and again in October 2010.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, will present Body Sway and Motion Sickness at the Department of Otolaryngology Research Seminar at 5:00 PM on September 16, 2009 in the Phillips Wangensteen Building room 8-335.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a research group from the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the Italian Institute of Technology. This work was performed during Konczak's single-semester leave last spring in Genova, Italy.

Sciutti A, Squeri V, Gori M, Masia L, Sandini G, & Konczak J. Predicted sensory feedback derived from motor commands does not improve haptic sensitivity. Experimental Brain Research, 2009 Sep 4. [Epub ahead of print]

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The Clinical and Translational Science Institute of the Academic Health Center has named Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, as the Director of Human Performance Core and Densitometry Services for the next year. Dengel will oversee the development of densitometry services for the Institute.

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Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., teaching specialist in sport management at the School of Kinesiology, had his paper Ambush Marketing in Major League Baseball: Are Loyal Fans Fooled? accepted for presentation at the 7th Annual Sport Marketing Association (SMA) conference in Cleveland, Ohio, October, 28-30, 2009.

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Jill Steinbach, undergraduate major in Kinesiology, is the featured employee in the September issue of the Recreational Sports Member newsletter. See Jill in Faces of Rec Sports

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, and former Tucker Center Program Associate Erin Becker will present their research "Coaching Youth Soccer as a Token Female" at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference in Ottowa, Ontario, November 4-7, 2009.

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President Bruinink's Welcome Back address is set against the backdrop of the new TCF Bank Stadium and features comments from two Kinesiology majors, Karen Heggernes and Kristina Hefty. The Welcome Back video highlights the new stadium's multiple uses, including future Kinesiology courses that will be held in the facility.

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Art Leon, M.D., professor of Kinesiolgy, has published an article with former doctoral advisee Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., research associate in the U of M School of Nursing.The article was based on data from Bronas' doctoral dissertation.

Treat-Jacobson, D., Bronas, U., & Leon, A. S. Efficacy of arm-ergometry versus treadmill exercise training to improve walking distance in patients with claudication. Vascular Medicine 2009, 14, 203-213.

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Lisa Kihl, Ph.D.,assistant professor of sport management at the School of Kinesiology announces a new publication with doctoral student Vicki Schull and former Tucker Center Fulbright Scholar Sarah Leberman:

Kihl, L. A., Leberman, S., & Schull, V. (2009). Stakeholder constructions of leadership in intercollegiate athletics. European Sport Management Quarterly. In press.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is currently featured on the School of Public Health's Health Disparities Working Group Web page. The organization's mission is to give greater visibility to health disparities research at the School of Public Health (SPH) and nationally, develop collaborations with faculty and community partners, and ensure that SPH students are well- trained to work in our diverse society.

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Catherine Solheim, Ph.D., associate professor in Family Social Science, was featured in a Minneapolis StarTribune article about teaching college students how to stay out of financial trouble. Solheim teaches a course called Personal and Family Finances, which looks at the impact of financial management on individuals' and families' quality of life. Read the StarTribune article.

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The Teaching in Action program, initiated by associate professor Frances Vavrus, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has received the Ashoka Changemakers Champions of Quality Education in Africa award. The award, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation, went to three programs drawn from a pool of 400 international entrants.

Teaching in Action is based at Mwenge University College of Education in northern Tanzania, and it brings together Tanzanian and U.S. educators to help the country's high school teachers use more inquiry-based, student-centered methods in core teaching subjects. The goal is for the university's faculty and the participating high school teachers to become models of active, participatory pedagogy in a country where rote memorization and formalistic teaching are the norm. The program grew out of the sabbatical Vavrus spent at Mwenge University as a Fulbright Scholar in 2006-2007. Teaching in Action is funded by AfricAid, a non-profit organization that promotes girls' education in Tanzania.

This year, two CEHD Ph.D. students--Brent Ruter and Matthew Thomas--accompanied Vavrus and helped to facilitate the program. They were joined by associate professor Lesley Bartlett of Teachers College, Columbia University and Bethany Hinsh, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vavrus also received support from the University of Minnesota to explore further collaboration between the University and Mwenge University. She was the recipient of a CEHD grant for international engagement and a summer travel grant from the Office of International Programs.

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Knoll area lockers are now available for students to rent for a semester, academic year, or calendar year. Lockers are located in Peik Hall. The locker rental contract form [pdf] should be completed and returned to 125 Peik Hall along with payment for the rental term.

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Drawing on data from their year-long ethnographic study, Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D. (Curriculum and Instruction) and Jessica Dockter explore the social politics of emotion in a diverse high school classroom where students analyzed and discussed racial representations in the media. The talk focuses on classroom discourse, students' perceptions, and students' media productions to show how emotion functioned to position students as critically engaged learners.
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Tuesday 9/29/2009
12:00 p.m. - 1 p.m.
40 Peik Hall
Please bring a bag lunch if you like!
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Diversity Dialogues are monthly gatherings sponsored by the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Each features a presentation by faculty, staff, student, or community members. Time is allotted for conversation.

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Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, and his former graduate student, James Hackney Ph.D., have published a new article.

Hackney, J. M., Wade,M. G., Larson, C., Smith, J. P., & Rakow,J., Impairment in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed subjects in adjusting ground reaction forces in running. Physical Therapy Theory and Practice, in press.

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Xiaojia Ge, professor of the Institute of Child Development, best known for his seminal findings of puberty onset on adolescent developmental outcomes, passed away on August 26, 2009. Ge joined ICD in the fall of 2006. He was an exceptional scholar and a dedicated educator. He was a wonderful addition to Child Development and he will be missed by all who knew him. We extend our sympathy to the family of Jenny Li, his wife, who works in Financial Services in the CEHD Dean's Office.

The Star Tribune obituary is available at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/startribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=132072199

A memorial service dedicated to the celebration of his life and our love for him will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Coffman Theatre, Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Avenue, SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has published two new articles in the field of movement science. Several of his current and former students also contributed to these articles.

Fu-Chen Chen and Ya-Wen Yu are kinesiology graduate students in working in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Chunggon Kim, Ph.D., received his doctoral degree under Stoffregen's guidance. Drs. Ito and Bardy are (respectively) Japanese and French research collaborators.

His most recent articles follow.

Stoffregen, T. A., Villard, S., Kim, C., Ito, K., & Bardy, B. G. (2009). Coupling of head and body movement with motion of the audible environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1221-1231.
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Stoffregen, T. A., Chen, F.-C., Yu, Y., & Villard, S. (2009). Stance width and angle at sea: Effects of sea state and body orientation. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, in press.

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Associate professor Yvonne Gentzler, Ph.D., (Curriculum and Instruction) helps Goldy Gopher learn to do laundry and manage his time. See Goldy learn new skills in the videos at the links below.

Goldy's laundry dilemma Goldy Gopher suffers from a lack of laundry knowledge. Can he wash maroon and gold together? Will a Badger shirt ruin his other clothing? Good thing U of MN Family Education Professor Yvonne Gentzler is there to lend a helping hand! Take a look ...you might even pick up a few tips yourself!

Goldy learns time management skills Poor Goldy Gopher ...so much to do and so little time to do it! There are football games at the new TCF Bank Stadium, classes to attend, events with alumni ...he's one busy rodent! Fortunately for Goldy, U of MN Family Education Professor Yvonne Gentzler knows a thing or two about how college students can better manage their time as they head back to school.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., exercise physiology instructor at the School of Kinesiology, presented on Muscle, Tendon and Bone Responses and Considerations Related to Exercise and Injury to OSI Physical Therapy Clinics from Minnesota and Wisconsin on August 26, 2009.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, has a new publication:

Dengel, D. R., Hearst, M. O., Harmon, J. H., Forsyth, A., & Lytle, L. A. Does the built environment relate to the metabolic syndrome in adolescents? Health & Place, 15:946-951, 2009.

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Christopher Watson, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), was selected to serve on the Professional Development Committee for the Minnesota Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC). The ECAC makes recommendations to the Governor and legislature, including proposed legislation on how to create a high-quality early childhood system in Minnesota in order to improve the educational outcomes of children. The goal of the council is to ensure that all children are school-ready by 2020.

The Professional Development Committee is charged with making recommendations that will establish a statewide professional development and career advancement system. These recommendations will be presented to the ECAC in October to be included in the overall strategic plan. The Professional Development Committee is charged with focusing on the pre-service system (i.e., 2 and 4 year public and private institutions of higher education) and in-service system for statewide professional development and career advancement.

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Daniel Hess, graduate of the doctoral program in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology program in Educational Psychology, won two Outstanding Graduate Student Research Awards at the 117th American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada, August 7, 2009. APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) and Division 52 (International Psychology) both awarded Dan separately for his dissertation research titled: "The Mental Health Sequelae and Treatment of Massive Community Violence in West Africa".

Dan's dissertation was advised by Michael Goh, Associate Professor in Educational Psychology, and co-advised by Jon Hubbard, an alum of the Institute of Child Development. Dan just completed a post-doc at University of California Berkeley Counseling and Psychological Services.

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Roberto Solbavarro, instructor for Foil Fencing, Saber Fencing and Intermediate Foil Fencing in the Physical Activity Program at the School of Kinesiology, has been chosen to coach the Women's Epee National Team.

Solbavarro was previously the National Coach for Women's Epee for the USFA and most recently was the coach who led the Junior National Team to a world championship in 2008 and a second place in 2009. His teams and students have consistently placed internationally and recently one of his students won the USA National Championship in Women's Epee.

For more information see USA Fencing.

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