David Parker, doctoral student in Educational Psychology (School Psychology), received the Society for the Study of School Psychology’s Dissertation Award Grant. He was one of four recipients across the country to have their dissertation work honored based on the rigor of the design, significance of the question, and potential for innovation.
Star Tribune op-ed article cites Dr. Ancel Keys’ groundbreaking research
An editorial on the U of M’s historical breakthroughs in treating heart disease in the Star Tribune on Thursday, April 14, cites research by Dr. Ancel Keys and associates that defined the relationship between dietary fat and serum cholesterol, which linked cholesterol to heart disease. Dr. Keys founded the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, which is today the School of Kinesiology’s Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science directed by Dr. Arthur Leon, Kinesiology professor.
For the text of the article, see http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/119803084.html
Kampsen honored with undergraduate advising award
Amy Kampsen, who holds a doctoral degree in educational policy and administration from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has been awarded the prestigious John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising at the University for 2010-11. The award is named in honor of John Tate, professor of physics and first dean of University College (1930-41). The Tate Awards serve to recognize and reward high-quality academic advising and to identify professional models and celebrate the role that academic advising plays in the University’s educational mission. Kampsen will be honored with this year’s other Tate winners at a ceremony on April 22.
Stoffregen and two doctoral students have article accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Dr. Thomas Stoffregen, Kinesiology Professor and Director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), and two doctoral students, have had an article accepted for publication. Control of a Virtual Vehicle Influences Postural Activity and Motion Sickness by Xiao Dong, Ken Yoshida, and Thomas A. Stoffregen, was accepted by The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Xiao Dong is a graduate student in Industrial Engineering, and Ken Yoshida is a Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology. Both are members of APAL.
DeWitt’s team wins NJCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship
Under the coaching of David DeWitt, adjunct instructor for the School of Kinesiology, Anoka Ramsey Community College won its seventh national championship in NJCAA Division III Women’s Basketball on March 12.
DeWitt, who teaches Basketball Coaching and Theory for the School’s coaching program, has served as the head coach for Anoka Ramsey for the past four years, making this his second championship.
Congratulations, David!
Bhalla and Rhodes compete in Boston Marathon
Kudos to Jennifer Bhalla, Ph.D, lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology in the School of Kinesiology, and Greg Rhodes, Kinesiology Ph.D. student, for going the distance along with 26,907 others in the Boston Marathon on April 18.
Rhodes completed the race with a time of 3 hours, 10 minutes, followed by Bhalla with a time of 3 hours, 41 minutes.
Goh presents invited lecture at Harvard
Michael Goh, Educational Psychology associate professor, presented an invited lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on April 12. His lecture was titled: Developing Culturally Competent Counselors and Educators: Research on Cultural Intelligence and Practice-Based Evidence.
School psychology program ranked number 1 in the U.S.
A study conducted at the University of Florida has rated CEHD’s school psychology program, in the Department of Educational Psychology, first in the country, both in productivity (i.e., number of articles published over the past five years) and influence (i.e., number of times cited over the past five years). The study examined the research productivity and influence of school psychology programs approved by the American Psychological Association.
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Jensen’s CIS anatomy students show public health expertise
How can teens become advocates for healthy living? Students in a University of Minnesota, Twin Cities College in the Schools (CIS) Anatomy and Physiology course have produced videos and designed multimedia displays that can be used to educate their friends, families, and communities about healthy eating, obesity reduction, atherosclerosis, and diabetes. More than 400 students representing 15 high schools across Minnesota gathered April 18 at the U of M to compete for the most engaging and educational kiosk. The winners will take home the coveted Golden Femur award.
“Our goal for the kiosks is to put the students’ knowledge into action, to show that there is more to anatomy and physiology than learning the names of bones and muscles,” says Murray Jensen, associate professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning. “Many of these CIS students will become health care leaders who will be interacting with the public, helping people stay healthy. The kiosks give students an opportunity to be health care advocates.”
The kiosk competition is the culmination of the yearlong Smart and Healthy Students, Smart and Healthy Families program, funded by the UCare Fund. Using concepts from Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food, high school students learned about healthy eating and also studied the digestive system, obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis.
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Allison speaks at University of Akron on Title IX
Rayla Allison, JD, lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, took part in a two-day presentation at the University of Akron’s College of Education on April 14 and 15. Allison spoke at a workshop for the sociology department on “Workplace Legal Issues and Creating a Healthy Workplace Culture,” and was a featured speaker for the College of Education Diversity Committee speaker series, “We’ve Come A Long Way, Maybe Baby: Title IX Educational Strides.”
Both presentations focused on Title IX issues such as sexual harassment in schools, non-traditional career education, discrimination based upon pregnancy and parenting student, athletics, employment discrimination in education and dropout issues.
Konczak gives invited presentation at UW-Madison
Stoffregen presents at Houston symposium
Dr. Tom Stoffregen, professor in Kinesiology, gave a talk at the 8th Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration, in Houston, TX on April 9th. His topic was “Postural prediction of motion sickness.” The symposium was sponsored by NASA and featured panels with several Space Shuttle and International Space Station astronauts.
Fox 9 News interviews Tucker Center lecture participants
The Tucker Center’s Spring Distinguished Lecture, “The Female Athlete and Concussions: The Untold and Unexamined Story,” is featured in “Concussion Symptoms in Women Could be Different” article and video on the Fox 9 News Web site. Dr. Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director, Kelly Blankenship, former U of M Gopher Women’s Hockey star, and Dr. Jill Books, lecture panelist and a clinical neuoropsychologist in private practice in New Jersey and on the Medical Advisory Board for the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, all spoke on the dangers of concussions, especially among female athletes.
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Albrecht writes that understanding white privilege is vital
School of Social Work Associate Professor Lisa Albrecht wrote an opinion article published in the Minneapolis StarTribune April 14. Albrecht, who is co chairing the 12th Annual White Privilege Conference being held in the Twin Cities on April 13-16, wrote in response to StarTribune editorial columnist Katherine Kersten. Kersten had criticized the decision of Minnesota school districts to pay for teachers to attend the conference. Albrecht’s counterpoint explains why she believes it is vital for U.S. society to understand white privilege and racism.
Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture:
“The Female Athlete and Concussions”
Female athletes and concussions will be the hot topic of discussion during the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport spring distinguished lecture, tomorrow Thursday, April 14.
“Female Athletes and Concussions: The Untold and Unexamined Story,” will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, West Bank Campus, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Tucker Center at 612.625.7327.
Research findings on the rising incidence of sport-related concussions have ignited a national conversation about this injury, but for the most part, the discussion and research focuses on male athletes at the professional level. The Tucker Center aims to change that by raising awareness of the realities about female athletes and concussions.
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Graduate student selected as Concordia University president
Rev. Thomas Ries, Ph.D. student (Higher Education) in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has been selected as the ninth president of Concordia University-St. Paul. Ries is currently president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Foundation, splitting time between his home and school in the Twin Cities and his work in St. Louis, MO. He was vice president for finance and operations at Concordia from 1999 to 2004. See the full story in the Minnesota Daily.
OLPD Faculty and students attend AHRD International Research Conference
Several faculty members and students from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) presented at the 2011 AHRD International Research Conference in the Americas. The conference was held February 23-26 in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Participants included:
Alexandre Ardichvili (Professor)
Kenneth Bartlett (Associate Dean for Graduate, Professional, and International Programs; Associate professor)
James Brown (Professor)
Louis Quast (Associate department chair; Hellervik/PDI Endowed Chair in Leadership & Adult Career Development)
Denise A . Bonebright (HRD graduate student)
Sanghamitra Chaudhuri (HRD graduate student)
Renada Goldberg (HRD graduate student)
Elizabeth Bechtel Jayanti (HRD graduate student)
Chang-Wook Jeung (HRD graduate student)
Jeong Rok Oh (HRD graduate student)
Sunyoung Park (HRD graduate student)
JiHyun Shim (HRD alumni)
Bai Vu (HRD undergraduate student)
Joseph M. Wohkitel (HRD graduate student)
Hea Jun Yoon (HRD graduate student)
Kelly A. Zimmerman (HRD undergraduate student)
Topics presented included:
The Changing Role of Leaders in Workplace Learning through CoPs
Advancing the Affective Domain and its Interventions for HRD
Identifying Organizational Knowledge Creation Enablers through Content Analysis: The Voice from the Industry
The Impact of the Learning Organization Environment on the Organizational Learning Process: Does the Better Learning Process Occur in the Better Learning Organization?
A Feminist Perspective on Women’s Employment in South Korea: Implications for HRD
Using Multi-Rater Feedback to Predict Managerial Career Derailment A Model of Self-Boss Rating Patterns
Leadership Development in Korea: A Delphi Study
Transcending the Learning Organizations and Becoming a Corporate Socially Responsible Organization
The Business Case for Human Resource Development: A Strategic Overview
Mountains as Places of Learning: An Autoethnographic Exploration
Positive Psychology: An Overview and Discussion of its Impact on Work and Human Resource Education
Work-Life and Family Issues of Expatriate Employees: The Lived Experience of Not Being Able to Work When Offered an Opportunity to Work
Reverse Mentoring: A Social Exchange Tool for Keeping the Millenials Committed and the Aging Workforce Engaged
The Current State of Human Performance Technology: A Citation Network Analysis of Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1988-2010
A Content Analysis of the Websites of HRD Academic Programs in the United States
Theorizing Models of Corporate Universities
The Experience of Dislocated Workers under the Workforce Investment Act
Organizational Learning Style: A Conceptual Model
Nonlinear Learning Styles: A Conceptual Model
Edleson named to national academy on social work
School of Social Work Professor Jeffrey Edleson, Ph.D., has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Edleson is one of 11 scholars who will be inducted into the academy at a ceremony on May 6, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
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TERI Partner Network Reception – April 6, 2011
On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, over 80 people attended a TERI Partner Network gathering at Eastcliff, the home of the President of the University of Minnesota. Attendees included superintendents and school principals from our TERI school partners, and additional representatives from districts that also collaborate with the U in teacher preparation with Clinical Cluster Sites.
At this event, representatives from the CEHD Dean’s office, the EDRC, and the Bush Foundation connected with our partners, celebrated our work this year, and acknowledged the faculty and staff of both the school partners and the University who have gone above and beyond their regular work to engage in the redesign. This event was hosted by Jean Quam, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development.
Speakers included:
-Jean Quam, CEHD Dean, UMN
-Robert Jones, Senior Vice President for System Academic Administration, UMN
-Peter Hutchinson, President of the Bush Foundation
-Michael Lovett, White Bear Lake Superintendent
-Keith Lester, Brooklyn Center Superintendent
Dean Quam welcomed everyone to the gathering and thanked our partners and faculty for their work during this pivotal year in the TERI work.
Robert Jones shared his connections both with CEHD and as a board member of the Bush Foundation, and he described how transformational TERI is in creating better teachers and helping all learners achieve in Minnesota schools.
Peter Hutchinson spoke of his past experience as a first-year teacher, and how inadequate his preparation had been to prepare him for the realities of the classroom. He spoke about the Bush Foundation’s vision of teaching and learning, and thanked all those involved in this important work. He commended the Bush Foundation, the University, and all the school partners in their willingness to take risks together, to do the hard work of changing programs,and to create working relationships that put student learning at the center of this process.
Michael Lovett also spoke about his first year as a new teacher and how this experience helped him understand the extensive expertise teachers need. He spoke of the positive impact of TERI in White Bear Lake and about the engagement of four elementary schools as professional development schools beginning this fall.
Keith Lester thanked Dean Quam for her leadership throughout this process and about the positive impact of TERI in Brooklyn Center schools. Dr. Lester described how partnership-developed relationships have brought three UMN centers (the Educator Development and Research Center, the Minnesota Reading Center, and the Center on Early Education and Development) to collaborate with faculty at Earle Brown Elementary School to propose a literacy project to the McKnight Foundation. Such collaborations are made possible by TERI partnerships.
( Pictured above from feft to right: Jerry Robicheau, Interim Superintendent for East Metro Integration District, Peter Hutchinson, President of the Bush Foundation, Linda Madsen, Superintendent of Forest Lake Area Schools, Charlie Kyte, Executive Director of MN Assoc. of School Administrators (MASA), Bernadeia Johnson, Superintendent, Minneapolis Public Schools, Michael Lovett, Superintendent, White Bear Lake Area Schools, Keith Lester, Superintendent, Brooklyn Center School District)
Gewirtz gives tips on talking with children about disasters
Abigail Gewirtz, associate professor of Family Social Science, joined the morning show hosts on KARE 11 to share tips about talking with children about disasters, both natural and man-made.
“It’s hard to switch yourself off from all of the media coming [to us],” Gewirtz said, “It’s hard to cut it off.” She stressed the importance of simply listening to children, and letting them talk about their concerns or worries instead of trying to guess how they are feeling.
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