CEHD Inside / Out

CEHD communicators received two awards yesterday at the U of M Communicators Forum annual conference:

2008 Gold Award for Best in Multimedia
Higher Ground: The Dedication of Direct Support Professionals During and After Hurricane's Katrina and Rita

Jerry Smith, director/producer/editor
Connie Burkhart, graphic designer
James Dreher, camera
Angela King, executive producer
Michael Loonan, original score

The Gold Award is the Communicators Forum's highest honor. Four Gold Awards are given for the best single entry in each of the writing, multimedia, print, and campaign/series categories.

2008 MARGO Award
Connect! magazine

Diane Cormany, editor
Rebecca Noran, graphic designer
Nance Longley, art director
Anitra Budd, contributing writer
Jessica Franken, contributing writer

One MARGO Award is bestowed annually for the most elegant solution within the means available (the most bang for your buck).

Congratulations everyone!

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Professor Don Dengel (Kinesiology) has published an article with former students Thomas Olson (Ph.D.) and Jennifer Tracy (M.A.) in the recent issue of Open Sports Medicine Journal on "Validity of a Low-Flow Pneumotach and Portable Metabolic Measurement System." Download article [.pdf].

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Professor Mark Umbreit is in Israel and Palestine (the occupied territories) this week providing restorative justice training and consultation to the Israeli Ministry of Justice and the Juvenile Probation Services. He will also be meeting with the Parents Circle, an organization of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents who have lost their loved ones in the conflict and have come together to support each other and speak out for ending the conflict and violence.

Mark will also meet with a colleague at the Hebrew University School of Social Work who will be a visiting scholar in the School of Social Work next year during his sabbatical. In addition, Mark will be meeting colleagues on the West Bank and working on a sniper shooting case in which an Israeli mother wants to meet the Palestinian prisoner who killed her son who was in the Israeli Defense Force. Finally, Mark will be providing a keynote address at the first Israeli Forum for Restorative Justice Conference at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.

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Associate Professor Yat-sang (Terry) Lum, who is currently on sabbatical in Hong Kong, was the keynote speaker at the April 30, 2008, Henry Leong Symposium on Elderly Care. He spoke on “The Global Trend in Elderly Care”. The symposium was funded by an Endowment from the Leong family to the University of Hong Kong.

Terry was co-principal investigator of two research projects funded by the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government: one to study the change in family values and attitudes in Hong Kong; the second to study the antipoverty policy in five developed countries.

Terry was also appointed an Honorary Associate Director of the Sau Po Center on Aging at the University of Hong Kong, and was appointed guest editor of a special issue of the Social Development Issue on "Population Aging and Development."

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Carol Leitschuh, Kinesiology lecturer and research associate, can count published poet among her community engagement activities. In April, Carol's book Harmony with God, Choral Prayer and Preparation was published by Liturgical Press at St John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. Each poem is complemented by an original choral refrain composed by Dr. Lynn Trapp. The refrain is vocal pedagogy and spiritual enhancement for all involved: directors, singers, and instrumentalist.

This month, Carol's prayer Spirit of Unity is the text used in a commissioned musical arrangement for drums and organ. On May 10, Dr. Kathy Romey in the School of Music conducted a 250-person choir at St. Olaf Church in the world premier of Spirit in Unity set in the Voices of Africa concert with the Minnesota Chorale along with the choirs of St.Olaf, Central Lutheran, St. Peter Claver, and the Twin Cities African choirs.

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Field Coordinator MJ Gilbert (Social Work), along with Sarah Axtell (Family Social Science) has accepted the position of co-chair of the University's Transgender Commission. The commission is associated with the GLBTA Programs Office, and reports to the Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity.

The University of Minnesota Transgender Commission works to create equity, access, and an inclusive environment for people of all genders through education, advocacy, and institutional change. The Commission strives to honor transgender people and celebrate gender diversity; make visible the systems of gender that profoundly affect all our lived experiences; and eliminate the discrimination faced by transgender and gender non-conforming students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members.

More information about the Transgender Commission can be found at http://glbta.umn.edu/trans. Anyone interested in the work of the commission, or in becoming involved, should contact MJ at 612-624-4259 or mgilbert@umn.edu.

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Sara Axtell, Community-Campus Health Outreach Liaison in the School of Social Work, has received an Outstanding Partners in Engagement award from the Campus Community Coordinators Alliance. Sara received the award for facilitating more than 70 new collaborations between individual and organizational partners to enhance the education of health professionals at the University and to improve the health of Minnesota communities.

Congratulations, Sara!

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Associate Professor Liz Lightfoot (Social Work), who is in Namibia on a Fulbright Scholarship, was the keynote speaker at the Namibia Social Work Association annual meeting held on April 15, World Social Work Day. She spoke on “Social workers making a world of difference: Social workers as leaders in social development." Liz also has made presentations in the last few months at events sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the African Girls Scholarship Program, the University of Namibia, and local community agencies.

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George Veletsianos (Ph.D. candidate, learning technologies), Cassie Scharber (Ph.D. candidate, learning technologies and literacy), and Assistant Professor Aaron Doering, have contributed a paper titled "When Sex, Drugs, and Violence Enter the Classroom: Conversations between Adolescent Social Studies Students and a Female Pedagogical Agent" for the latest issue of Interacting with Computers.

The paper investigates the discourse between a female conversational pedagogical agent and 59 adolescents in the context of a social studies lesson. A close look at learner–agent discourse revealed that learners readily misuse and abuse virtual characters while treating them as subordinate and inferior objects.

Veletsianos, G., Scharber, C., & Doering, A. (2008). When sex, drugs, and violence enter the classroom: Conversations between adolescent social studies students and a female pedagogical agent. Interacting with Computers, 20(3), 292-301.

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Assistant Professor Mistilina Sato, Assistant Professor Benjamin Jacobs, and Professor Patricia Avery published “Preparing Minnesota Teachers for Diverse Contexts” [PDF] in the Spring 2008 issue of CURA Reporter. The article summarizes initial findings from an ongoing study being conducted by the Minnesota Teacher Education Research Consortium (MNTERC)—a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minnesota State University-Mankato, and the College of St. Catherine—on how teacher preparation experiences contribute to the instructional practices of teachers in Minnesota’s increasingly diverse schools. The first phase of the project was supported by a Faculty Interactive Research Program grant from the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs here at the University. Other members of the research team include Mary Bents (UMN), Linda Distad (St. Kate’s), Jane Gilles (UMN), Taeho Jung (UMN), Daria Paul Dona (MSU-Mankato), Maia Sheppard (UMN), and Ken Vos (St. Kate’s).

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Assistant Professor Bic Ngo (Curriculum and Instruction) has been named one of the University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty Teaching Fellows for 2008-10. Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty Teaching Fellowships are intended to foster and support best practices in interdisciplinary graduate research, teaching, and writing at the University. Faculty fellows engage with each other as members of a mutual interdisciplinary intellectual community while simultaneously working to develop and teach new interdisciplinary graduate dissertation seminars. The seminars seek to exemplify best practices in interdisciplinary graduate education and to serve as institutional models for interdisciplinary pedagogy and dissertation writing support.

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David R. Johnson, associate dean for research and policy, is a 2008 recipient of the University's President's Award for Outstanding Service. The award is presented each year in the spring and recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member. Recipients of this award have gone well beyond their regular duties and have demonstrated an unusual commitment to the University community.

Congratulations, David!

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Assistant Professor Karen Miksch (Postsecondary Teaching and Learning) recently presented her paper "Academic Freedom and the Diversity Rational" at the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in New York. She was also named the Program Chair for the AERA Law and Education SIG for the 2009 annual conference and Legal Counsel for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). She will begin her duties at the summer board meeting in June.

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Jeanne Higbee, professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, presented on the topic of "Assessing the Implementation of Universal Instructional Design: Multiple Approaches" at the Pacific Rim Conference on Disability in Hawai'i this month.

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The new bachelor of science degree in youth studies (begun in Fall 2007) has its first two graduates: Catalina Carbonell and Laura DeRung. Youth studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program that prepares graduates for work in community youth development and human service fields, with a focus on serving urban and marginalized young people.

Congratulations Catalina and Laura, and best wishes on all your future endeavors!

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Assistant Professor Irene Duranczyk (Postsecondary Teaching and Learning) was an invited, keynote speaker for a conference sponsored by the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science (funded by the Pew Foundation) held in Colorado Springs at Colorado College from April 18 to 20. The focus of the three-day workshop was “Sharing best practices for serving students and faculty at Science and Math Teaching and Learning Centers.” Irene’s keynote address and workshop was “Implementing Universal Instructional Design (UID) in Math and Science Teaching and Learning Centers.”

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Assistant Professor Sue Staats (Postsecondary Teaching and Learning) was recently an invited presenter at a symposium on "Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms" in Johannesburg, South Africa. She led teaching workshops for high school and undergraduate teachers and consulted with graduate students on their discourse research in mathematics classrooms in South Africa, Swaziland, and Malawi.

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Assistant Professor Misty Sato (Curriculum and Instruction) recently received a Young Scholars Research Fellowship from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation. One of only four awarded nationally, the award provides support for the recipient’s research over a two-year period.

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In April Tom Skovholt, professor of counseling and student personnel psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology, was an invited speaker at the University of Washington Psychology Department and Counseling Center. He presented on: Counselor Development: Elevated Stressors of the Novice Practitioner; Portrait of the Master Therapist; and Competent Clinical Supervision at Varying Developmental Levels.

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Michael Wade, Kinesiology professor, was invited to give the keynote address at the First International Conference on Physical Education, Sport, and Health in Kuwait City, Kuwait, April 1-3. This was an inaugural event for the State of Kuwait. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Kuwait Public Authority. Kinesiology Ph.D. graduates Husain Al-Makaimi, Salman Mohammed, and Mubarak Redah were involved in the conference organization and all three hold faculty appointments at the College of Education in Kuwait. Michael also participated in the local TV program "Good Morning, Kuwait."

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Jane Gilles, coordinator of assessment initiatives and DirecTrack to Teaching in the College's Preparation to Practice Group, has been elected to represent the University of Minnesota system on the Executive Committee of the Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE). MACTE’s mission is to bring together schools, colleges, and departments of education to provide leadership in the preparation of highly qualified professional educators. The association collaborates with organizations and agencies to promote quality standards in professional educator development. MACTE is a state unit for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).

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The Tucker Center has been recognized by the General Mills Foundation and Community Action program's Communities of Colors Grantees as serving a pivotal role in providing in-kind support in the arts, education, health, and social services. The Tucker Center will participate with a group of other recipients to discuss opportunities, challenges, and support available to deliver more effective programming to metro communities of color.

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Educational Psychology Professor John Romano's article "Preserving Emotional Wellness" appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of the University's Wellness Works magazine. Download the entire issue [.pdf].

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James and Pamela Toole, community faculty members in the School of Social Work, received the Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award at the 19th Annual National Service-Learning Conference in Minneapolis on April 11. The citation read: "James and Pamela Toole have been the standard-bearers for service-learning practice since the early 1990s, when they composed the National Youth Leadership Council's professional development department. With backgrounds in teaching and counseling, they are beloved as trainers nationally and internationally. They continue to work for systemic improvements in education and communities." The Tooles received onstage congratulations from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was a keynote speaker at the conference.

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Professor Scott McConnell (Educational Psychology) has been named the 2008-09 holder of the University's Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs. Scott received the chair because of the work he's done over his career in early childhood education and development and his proposed project to extend this work to children living on Minneapolis's north side and to integrate the educational issues with health care concerns. Scott will be officially honored at a reception during the fall.

Congratulations, Scott!

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Carol Leitschuh, Kinesiology research associate and lecturer, was named Fulbright Scholar Alternate for 2008-09. Further awards for Carol's proposal are contingent on agency resolution of financial disparities between the dollar and the euro. If funded Carol will work in the Czech Republic lecturing at Palacky University in Olomouc and conducting pilot research on motor development for infants and toddlers living in orphanages.

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Professor Emeritius Pauline Boss (Family Social Science) is speaking at UC Berkeley’s Tribute to Jim Gray on May 31. Jim Gray, a Silicon Valley legend, is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert, and Microsoft engineer. Gray’s work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, e-commerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. Jim Gray disappeared without a trace on a sailing trip to the Farallon Islands on January 28, 2007.

Speakers at the tribute will address the attributes and accomplishments that contributed to Gray’s world renowned reputation.

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Teaching Specialist Peggy DeLapp (Curriculum and Instruction) was recently awarded one of only 15 prestigious State’s Impact on Federal Education Policy (SIFEPP) Conference Fellow Awards. This honor is for doctoral candidates, advanced degree recipients, and persons engaged in early career research, and recipients will participate in the SIFEPP conference, which takes place at the Holiday Inn Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 8 and 9, 2008.

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Professor B. Jan McCulloch and doctoral student Sara Lassig, both from the Department of Family Social Science, are invited speakers at the Minnesota Gerontological Society’s 2008 Annual Conference “Aging and the Family . . . It’s all in the Genes!” on April 25. Their topic is Rural Issues in Caregiving.

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Professor Mark Umbreit (School of Social Work) is serving April 13 to 23 as a U.S. State Department Fulbright Senior Specialist providing lectures about his restorative justice research and conducting training seminars at the Catholic University Law School in Piachenza, Italy (near Milan). Mark is the Director of the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking in the School of Social Work.

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Associate Professor Michael Goh (Educational Psychology) and community partners David McGraw Schuchman (People, Incorporated) and Kathryn McGraw Schuchman (Fraser Child and Family Center) presented a two-day workshop “Working with Immigrants and Refugees: Culture, Language, and Practice“ in Lincoln, Nebraska April 4-5, 2008. In the 1990s, Lincoln was selected by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement as a preferred community for newly arrived refugees. Now they are one of the top twenty cities in America for new arrivals from abroad, the story of which is the highlight of bestselling author Mary Pipher’s book The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community. The workshop was organized by the College of Education and Human Sciences and the Psychological Consultation Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor in Kinesiology, presented at and chaired the symposium titled "Innovative methods for examining mediators in randomized controlled intervention trials" at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), San Diego, CA, in March 2008.

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Professor Michael G. Wade (Kinesiology) will join an interdisciplinary conversation titled "Time and Embodied Cognition" along with scholars Ursina Teuscher (Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego), Even Selinger (Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology), Wade Savage (Philosophy, University of Minnesota), and moderator Arun Saldanha (Geography, University of Minnesota). The panel is an interdisciplinary research project funded by the University's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and the Office of the Vice President for Research as part of the University Symposium on Time. The free conversation is part of IAS's "Symposium on Time" and will take place on Friday, April 25, in room 125 Nolte Library.

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On Thursday, April 10, Research Associate Carol Leitschuh (Kiniesiology) will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Conference Together We Will Create Motor and Movement Experiences for Young Children held in Connecticut. Her keynote presentation title is “Children's Movement: The So Essential Contributor to Positive Development!! (Yes, even the brain!)”. This presentation will address the importance of movement and how we as a nation have veered away from that focus. Carol will also be doing a workshop titled, “Development and Validation of Functional Movement for Young Children.”

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Associate Professor Frank Symons (Educational Psychology) was among the 2007-08 Minnesota Futures Grant Program awardees. As part of this award, Frank co-sponsored a symposium at the beginning of January titled “Pain in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Analgesic Failure and the Promise of Biomarkers” with Dr. Lois Kehl, D.D.S., Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, Department of Anesthesiology).

Frank's longstanding clinical interest in the assessment and treatment of severe self-injury among children and adults has led to the development of a program of translational research addressing the problem of pain in neurodevelopmental disorders. He is co-editor with Dr. Oberlander of the only book specific to pain and developmental disabilities and was recently awarded an NIH/NICHD Career Development Award (K02) to support his work.

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Stephanie Carlson, associate professor in the Institute of Child Development, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Washington in recognition of her service on the faculty there, prior to joining the University of Minnesota.

Congratulations, Stephanie!

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Marti Erickson, director of the Harris Programs in CEED, says connecting kids and the outdoors has a positive impact in this U of M Moment.

Case of "Nature Deficit Disorder?" Try a "Green Hour"
April 3, 2008

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor of kinesiology, has been awarded a three-year $232,577 subcontract for her role as a co-investigator on an NIH-funded multisite trial examining the efficacy of stent vs. exercise for treating peripheral artery disease (PAD) titled "Claudication: Exercise Versus Endoluminal Revascularization (CLEVER)." Beth will be responsible for delivering the telephone-based exercise maintenance interventions to participants across all of sites in the study.

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In mid-March, CEED Senior Fellow Marti Erickson traveled to Arusha, Tanzania to launch a child rights project she is co-leading with Gerison Lansdown, a child rights expert from England. The project will work with leaders from Tanzanian government agencies and NGOs to develop a system for training health, education, and human service workers to use a child rights framework to understand and promote the health and development of young children (birth through age 8) throughout Tanzania. This was the first of four trips Marti will make to Tanzania over the next year and a half as part of this project.

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Professor David Johnson (Educational Psychology) has received the 2008 Distinguished Contributions to Education Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The award honors an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and success in education research. David was presented with the award on March 26 during AERA's 2008 Annual Meeting Awards Presentation and Presidential Address.

Congratulations, David!

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Sandy Christenson, professor of educational psychology, received the Minnesota School Psychologists Association (MSPA) 2007-08 Ysseldyke Best Practices Award. This award is given in recognition of her principles, standards, and dedication that have enhanced the profession of School Psychology.

Congratulations, Sandy!

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Marti Erickson (Director, Harris Programs, CEED) will be speaking at the upcoming "Nature, Children, and Families: A Necessary Connection" conference. In her presentation, "Healing the Broken Bond between Children and Nature," Marti will discuss today's relationship between children and the outdoors and the importance of strengthening that bond.

Nature, Children, and Families: A Necessary Connection
Friday, April 4, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
MacMillan Auditorium
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska

Read the full press release.

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Professor John Romano (Eductional Psychology) and several of his colleagues were awarded the Best Major Contribution in Volume Award. The award recognizes the following paper by John and colleagues, which appeared in the Counseling Psychologist:

Hage, S. M., Romano, J. L., Conyne, R. K., Kenny. M., Matthews, C., Schwartz, J. P., & Waldo, M. (2007). Best practices guidelines on prevention practice, research, training, and social advocacy for psychologists. The Counseling Psychologist, 35, 493-566.

The award will be presented at the APA convention in August.

Congratulations, John and colleagues!

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Assistant Professor Shonda Craft (Family Social Science) is a winner of the 2008 President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award. The award, sponsored by the University's Office for Equity and Diversity, is designed to encourage and support research on issues related to people of color, particularly in a North American context.

Congratulations Shonda!

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The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), the oldest multidisciplinary non-partisan professional organization focused solely on family research, practice, and education, has elected two members from the Department of Family Social Science:

Professor and Department Head B. Jan McCulloch has been named Chair of the NCFR Family and Health section. The mission of the Family and Health Section is to promote the health of diverse families and their members through interdisciplinary activities that facilitate excellence in family health practice, research, education, and policy development.

Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist Jodi Dworkin has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Education and Enrichment section. The Education and Enrichment section shares information on effective family life education, teaching materials and methods, and marriage enrichment interests. Focus Groups include Marriage and Family Enrichment, Certified Family Life Educators, Sexuality, Parent Education, Families and Grief, and Peace.

Congratulations Jan and Jodi!

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Long-time youth studies community faculty member and high school teacher Jan Mandell is the recipient of the inaugural Facing Race Ambassador Award given by The Saint Paul Foundation. Jan and 12 nominees were honored at a March 8 ceremony at the Science Museum of Minnesota. A nonprofit organization or public entity of her choice will receive a cash award of $10,000 to further work in creating an anti-racist East Metro community.

Continue reading "Mandell receives Facing Race award" »

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Chris Bremer, Donna Johnson, and Joe Timmons (all researchers in the Institute on Community Integration) recently published an article.

"Improving Access, Transition, and Success: Meeting the Challenges Facing College Students with Disabilities"
Update on Research and Leadership 19(1)

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Research associate Pat Salmi (Institute on Community Integration) has received the Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management Award of Excellence for Outstanding Teamwork for her work on CMIST, an interagency volunteer organization that advocates and acts for inclusion in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery for persons who have disabilities, are elderly, or have barriers to participation.

UPDATE: Pat and her award were mentioned in the