Department of Family Social Science graduate student Jennifer Doty published “Parents’ of Adolescents Use of Social Networking Sites” in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, along with Professor Jodi Dworkin.
Doty’s research interests include parents’ access to social capital online and offline and the relationship between parents and adolescents. She also has an interest in family based prevention and intervention.
The Economist quotes Kane on media coverage and women’s sport
Dr. Mary Jo Kane, faculty in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, is quoted in The Economist article “Game, sex and match” regarding sexualized images of female athletes.
Kane & LaVoi on selling sex in surfing’s The Inertia
An article in The Inertia online surfing magazine on “Does Sex Actually Sell Surfing?” extensively quotes Drs. Mary Jo Kane and Nicole M. LaVoi, School of Kinesiology, and director and associate director, respectively, of the Tucker Center, along with Tucker Center Affiliated Scholar Janet Fink (University of Massachusetts—Amherst).
Dengel presents at U of M’s Pediatrics Grand Rounds
Professor of kinesiology Dr. Donald Dengel recently presented at the University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics Ground Rounds. The title of Dr. Dengel’s talk was, “Pediatric Vascular Health: Growing Up.”
Watch the entire talk below:
MPR’s “Daily Circuit” features Mary Jo Kane on the question of character in professional sports
With the NFL season just getting underway, Minnesota Public Radio’s (MPR) “Daily Circuit” radio show with host Kerri Miller will broadcast a 9:00am roundtable discussion this Friday, September 6, on the question, “Should character matter in sport?” with Dr. Mary Jo Kane sport sociology faculty in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, Dr. John Tauer, professor of psychology and head of the men’s basketball team at St. Thomas University, and Esera Tuaolo, former NFL player and author of the book “Alone in The Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL.” The roundtable is a follow-up on an early-July New York Times article, “Room for Debate.”
ICD alumna honored with Curt Richter Award for research
Emma Adam, Ph.D. ’98, professor at Northwestern University, has been honored with the 2013 Curt Richter Award by the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE). The award was presented at the ISPNE 43rd Annual Meeting in Leiden, the Netherlands, on August 23, 2013. The award recognizes the research of distinguished young investigators whose submitted manuscripts report original, never-published research in basic or clinical psychoneuroendocrinology. Adam presented her awarded paper in a talk entitled Social Influences on Child and Adolescent Cortisol in Naturalistic Settings: Implications for Mood and Anxiety Disorders at the meeting.
“Rusty” Barcelo Scholarship recipients in Family Social Science
Congratulations Department of Family Social Science graduate students Veronica Deenanath and Phoua Xiong, as well as undergrad Fanny Jimbo-Llapa (who is also a 2013 McNair Scholar) for being among the recipients of the Dr. Nancy “Rusty” Barceló Scholarship for 2013-14.
The scholarship assists female students with financial need in completing their education at the University, with a special focus on women of color, new immigrants, and first generation college students.
Veronica, Phoua, and Fanny will be presented with the awards at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on September 27.
Lewis named co-editor of Expanding Literacies in Education Series
Cynthia Lewis, Emma Birkmaier Professor in Educational Leadership, has been named a co-editor for the Expanding Literacies in Education Series, published by the Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
From the Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group: The Expanding Literacies in Education Series features books that highlight the changing landscape and explore new directions and theoretical tools in literacy studies as it is transforming education–including material, embodied, affective, and global emphases; digital and virtual worlds; and transcultural and cosmopolitan spaces. Some books in the series locate emerging literacies in practices that extend or trouble their historical uses and functions. Others cross disciplinary borders, bringing new epistemologies to bear on evolving practices that question the very foundations of literacy scholarship. Polemical and forward-looking, encompassing public and vernacular pedagogies as well as formal education, these books engage researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators with new and emerging theoretical approaches to literacy practices in all of their complexities, challenges, and possibilities.
Lewis has also recently been appointed to the editorial board of Research in the Teaching of English, the research journal for the National Council of Teachers of English. Research in the Teaching of English (RTE) is a multidisciplinary journal composed of original research and scholarly essays on the relationships between language teaching and learning at all levels, preschool through adult.
To follow the Expanding Literacies in Education Series, bookmark the series’ webpage.
Ji and Kang to publish set of articles
Li Li Ji, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science (LPHES) along with postdoctoral fellow Choughun Kang, Ph.D., have recently had two articles accepted for publication.
The first article is entitled, “Muscle Immobilization and Remobilization Down-regulates PGC-1α Signaling and Mitochondrial Biogenesis Pathway,” and will be published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The second article is titled, “Exercise training attenuates aging-associated mitochondrial dysfunction in rat skeletal muscle: Role of PGC-1α,” and is set to be published in Experimental Gerontology. Both papers represent a major research focus of the LPHES.
FSOS Kayla Anderson will present at IFFS/ASRM in Boston
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kayla Anderson will present at the conjoint annual meeting of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Boston this October.
Anderson’s paper, “Outcomes of ART Multiples and Their Families: A Look at Middle Childhood” examines parent and child adjustment, marital quality, and parent-child relationship quality in assisted reproduction families with 6-12 year old singletons, twins, or triplets.
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Children’s Hospitals and ICD co-sponsor discussion about bullying
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and the Institute of Child Development will co-sponsor Breaking down Bullying: A conversation with New York Times best-selling author Emily Bazelon on September 11, 2013 at 6:00 pm at the Minnesota Children’s Museum.
Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones, which has been described as a major new contribution to the national conversation on bullying. She will speak about the social, emotional and legal ramifications of bullying, the use of new technologies in bullying and effective school programs and strategies to handle bullying. Bazelon is a senior editor at Slate and a Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School.
The Institute of Child Development is sponsoring the talk to honor the work and legacy of Dr. Nicki Crick, professor at the Institute, who passed away last year. Crick was internationally known for her groundbreaking work on relational aggression.
Ji publishes in special issue of Journal of Sport and Health Science
Li Li Ji, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science, published and served as a guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Sport and Health Science. The issue is titled, “Healthy aging: Role of exercise and reactive oxygen species.”
Within the issue Ji’s editorial piece was titled, “Healthy aging: Cellular insights.” Dr. Ji and post doctoral fellow Chounghun Kang, Ph.D., had a review article published called, “Role of PGC-1α in muscle function and aging.” Additionally, Ji was a co-author of a review article titled, “Mitochondrial redox metabolism in aging: Effect of exercise interventions.”
Saving students money: CEHD’s open textbook catalog featured on KARE 11
“We’ve been trying to get faculty to understand that open textbooks exist, and they’re out there, and they can be freely distributed, and they’re quality textbooks just like the textbooks they already use,” said David Ernst, academic technology director for the College of Education and Human Development. He was interviewed recently by KARE 11 for a story on how “Open textbooks could mean more money for college students.”
Ernst, who led the development of the college’s open textbook catalog, also explains how open licensing works and how easy it is to find more than 140 open textbooks that faculty can adapt and use for their courses.
“And these textbooks tend to be for high enrollment courses, where the impact would be huge — introductory courses that freshmen take, that thousands of students here at the University take,” said Ernst.
See the KARE 11 story below. Also see Ernst’s KSTP interview about use of educational technology in teaching and learning.
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