Dr. Beth Lewis, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, is to be one of four featured panelists for a Lecture Series on Interdisciplinary Women’s Health.
Along with Dr. Lewis, featured panelists will include Dr. Patricia Harrison of the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support, Dwenda Gjerdingen, M.D., M.S., of the University of Minnesota Medical School, and Michelle Wiersgalla, M.D., also of the University of Minnesota Medical School.The lecture will cover topics on perinatal issues and women’s mental health from an interdisciplinary behavioral and medical approach. The objectives of the lecture series seek to understand the importance of prenatal and postpartum depression, to understand the practices and treatments of these conditions, and to share the benefits for being screened within the context of other psychosocial risk-factors.
The event will take place on Monday, May 9 from 4:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. in room 5-125 of Moos Tower on the University of Minnesota campus. Refreshments will be provided. For further information on this event, email wmhealth@umn.edu, or call (626) 626-1125.
Davison edits highly cited psychological journal
Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators lists Applied Psychological Measurement, edited by Mark Davison, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods), among highly cited journals in psychology and psychiatry
In addition, Davison and David Weiss, professor in the Department of Psychology, were recently interviewed by Science Watch about the growing influence of the journal Applied Psychological Measurement on the fields of psychology and psychiatry as reflected in the journal’s 10 year citation index.
Weiss is the founding editor of the journal and Davison is the current editor. The full interview can be seen at http://sciencewatch.com/inter/jou/2011/11mayApldPsyMeas/ .
Article on interventions and physical activity to be published in Health Education Research
Tucker Center visiting scholar Maria Miñano Camacho, professor at the University of Madrid, Spain, Tucker Center associate director Dr. Nicole LaVoi, and assistant professor of Kinesiology Dr. Daheia Barr-Anderson have a manuscript accepted for publication in Health Education Research. The article is titled “Interventions to promote physical activity among adolescent girls: A systematic review.” This work was in part completed during Dr. Camacho’s tenure with the Tucker Center during the summer of 2009.
More information about child welfare and technology
People who attended the CASCW conference on how technology is changing child welfare practice were excited to learn about what is happening with technology in other locations. In their April 2011 newsletter, the Annie E. Casey Foundation featured an article from its newsletter about a new Web tool created to help child welfare professionals. You can read about it by linking to the Annie E. Casey Foundation site.
Faculty research undergirds new Minneapolis/Target literacy program
University of Minnesota Center for Reading Research (MCRR) Co-Directors Lori Helman and Matthew Burns and Educational Psychology Professor Jennifer McComas have developed the comprehensive Path to Reading Excellence in School Sites (PRESS) that will be implemented in Minneapolis Public Schools. Aimed at preparing all Minneapolis students to read by the third grade, PRESS is based on a research-based approach to literacy. The district announced its partnership with Target Foundation, which is donating $6 million to district literacy programs over the next three years, in a press conference May 2.
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Weiss and Bolter publish chapter in child development text
Maureen Weiss, professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, along with co-author Nicole Bolter, former doctoral student and now faculty member at San Francisco State University, published a chapter titled, “Moral and Motor Development” in a textbook edited by Payne and Isaacs, Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach. In their chapter, Weiss and Bolter highlight physical activity as a context that provides frequent opportunities to experience and resolve moral dilemmas that naturally arise on the playground, in physical education class, or during organized sport. They discuss theory and research on moral development through physical activity and practical ways in which teachers and coaches can promote character development and fair play behaviors among youth as they engage in sports and physical activities.
Innovative program builds parenting skills of returning soldiers’ families
Family social science professor Abi Gewirtz is leading a first of its kind parenting study with Minnesota National Guard families to strengthen parenting skills of returning soldiers and their families. Funded by a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the five-year study is designed to help people parent effectively despite the difficulties of deployment.
ADAPT (After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools) will recruit 400 families with kids between the ages of 5 and 12 to test the program’s effectiveness over time. ADAPT is based on the Oregon Parent Management Training program. “It’s a parenting intervention that has been shown to be very, very effective at supporting parenting in other contexts, so our test is to see whether it works at promoting children’s resilience in this context,” said Gewirtz in a recent Minnesota Public Radio story.
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OLPD graduate student receives COGS travel award
Millicent Adjei (M.A. student, comparative and international development education), from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), is a recipient of a 2010-11 COGS Travel Award to support her summer research in Ghana, her home country. Congrats!
The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) gives awards to masters and Ph.D. students for travel to conferences and educational programs. This award aims to help students with limited funding to further develop professional skills and contacts.
OLPD graduate students selected to participate in AERA mentoring session
Vanessa Abanu (Ph.D. student, higher education) and Chris Opsal (Ph.D. student, educational administration) from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), were selected to participate in the AERA Division F (History and Historiography) Mentoring Seminar for Junior Faculty and Graduate Students, held during the 2011 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, April 8-12 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Congrats!
OLPD alum wins AERA outstanding poster award
John Asmussen, 2010 alum (Ph.D. in higher education) from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) won third place in the inaugural Outstanding Poster Awards at the 2011 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held April 8-12 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His poster topic was How Might Governors Improve College Graduation Rates?
LaVoi, Calhoun, and Johnson have article accepted to International Journal of Sport Communications
Nicole M. LaVoi, lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director for the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, Austin Stair Calhoun, Kinesiology Ph.D. student, and Alicia Johnson, former Tucker Center intern, recently had their article accepted to the International Journal of Sport Communication (IJSC).
The paper, “Framing with family: Examining online coaching biographies for heteronormative and heterosexist narratives,” examined over 1,800 online coaching biographies of Division I & III NCAA head coaches for textual representations of heteronormativity and heterosexism. The data demonstrates a near absence of GLBT coaches, suggesting digital content of intercollegiate athletic department web sites reproduce dominant gender ideologies and are plagued by homophobia in overt and subtle ways.
The article is set to be published in Volume 4 (Issue 3) of the IJSC.
Stoffregen presents at Brimhall Elementary School
Dr. Tom Stoffregen, professor in Kinesiology, gave a talk at Brimhall Elementary School, in Roseville, on April 27. His topic, “Video games make me sick”, focused on postural prediction of motion sickness and was presented to the 4th grade class.
Alum wins Presidential Award for excellence in teaching
Polly Saatzer, M.Ed. ’95 in early childhood education, will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Saatzer, a kindergarten teacher at Susan Powell of Garlough Environmental Magnet School in West St. Paul, is one of 85 K-6 teachers nationwide to receive the award and the only one from Minnesota. A teacher for 32 years, Saatzer will be honored with the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
See more in the Minneapolis Star Tribune story.
Moravec publishes book on invisible learning
John Moravec, Ph.D., coordinator of Leapfrog Institutes and senior lecturer in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), has had the Spanish edition of his new book (written together with Cristóbal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute), Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible) released by the University of Barcelona (Col·lecció Transmedia XXI. Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius / Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona). The e-book is available at the University of Barcelona website. The print edition will arrive in the coming months and an English edition is forthcoming.
University-YMCA family literacy parthership succeeds at Sheridan Elementary School
Literacy education faculty, students, and preservice teachers from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction partnered with the YMCA to promote family literacy at Sheridan Elementary School on April 14. The goal of the partnership was to create a family literacy event to benefit Minneapolis students of various ages and skill levels, educate students and their families about the importance of literacy, and provide Minneapolis families with tips and activities that they can use at home to work towards these goals.
Tucker Center colleagues to publish in Health Education Research
Tucker Center visiting scholar Maria Miñano Camacho, professor at the University of Madrid, Spain, Tucker Center associate director Nicole LaVoi, and assistant professor of Kinesiology Daheia Barr-Anderson have a manuscript accepted for publication in Health Education Research. The article is titled “Interventions to promote physical activity among adolescent girls: A systematic review.” This work was in part completed during Dr. Camacho’s tenure with the Tucker Center during the summer of 2009.
Ruth Stricker Mind-Body Lecture celebrates 20 years with The Neuroscience of Play
“The Neuroscience of Play” is the theme of this spring’s Ruth Stricker Mind-Body Lecture, May 16-17, 2011, presented by the Center for Spirituality and Healing and co-sponsored by the Henry L. Taylor Professorship in Exercise Science and Health Enhancement. Dr. Arthur Leon, MD, holds the Taylor Professorship in the School of Kinesiology.
Stuart Brown, MD, prolific author and executive producer of the three-part PBS series, The Promise of Play, will deliver two lectures. Dr. Brown first recognized the importance of play by discovering its absence in the life stories of murderers and felony drunk drivers. His independent scholarship and exploration of play led to the establishment of the National Institute for Play.
The Neuroscience of Play lecture will be held Monday, May 16, from 12-1:30 p.m. in Mayo Memorial Auditorium, $15 general admission, $10 students. The Power of Play lecture will be held Tuesday, May 17, from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Marsh, 15000 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN. Register online for the U of M lecture at www.tickets.umn.edu. Contact The Marsh at http://www.themarsh.com/ for more information about the second lecture.
Two School of Kinesiology Ph.D. students receive AKA award
Mr. Tony Mayo, Kinesiology Ph.D. student, and Ms. Ya-wen Yu, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, recently received awards from the American Kinesiology Association (AKA).
Mr. Mayo was nominated by the School’s Graduate Programs Committee in February, and has been selected to receive one of the American Kinesiology Association (AKA) Student Writing Awards for 2011. His paper, “Postural Effects of the Horizon on Land and at Sea,” co-authored by Dr. Michael Wade and Dr. Tom Stoffregen, was published in Psychological Science in January, 2011. It was judged by the AKA Review Committee “to merit national recognition and to serve as an exemplar of graduate student research or scholarship.” The committee noted that the article will make a significant contribution to the literature in the field of kinesiology.
Ms. Yu has been selected as an American Kinesiology Association (AKA) National Graduate Scholar for 2011. The award honors a select number of students whose academic and leadership records are distinctive. These students, who were nominated by faculty, have demonstrated an exceptional interest in the field of kinesiology by undertaking independent or guided research, assuming leadership positions, and having the potential for making a significant impact on the field. Ms. Yu’s work with functional impact of postural control on visual performance in diverse situations is highly innovative and in each case she has assumed primary responsibility for conduct of the research.
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Dengel receives prestigious CEHD award
Congratulations to Dr. Don Dengel, associate professor of exercise physiology in the School of Kinesiology, who has received the prestigious CEHD Marty and Jack Rossman Award, which recognizes a tenured faculty member who has “demonstrated a truly exceptional level of creativity and productivity in scholarship, teaching and service, and who shows great promise of continuing such achievement.”
Dr. Dengel will receive an $8,000 award over two years to support research, travel, or professional development. The award was presented at the CEHD Annual Spring Assembly and Recognition Event yesterday.
Congratulations, Dr. Dengel!
Dengel gives invited presentations
Dr. Donald Dengel, associate professor of exercise physiology, has been busy giving lectures across the map this semester.
His most recent presentation on “Imaging The Effects of Cancer Treatments in Peripheral and Cerebral Vascular Beds” took place at the University of Iowa’s Institute for Biomedical Imaging on April 21.
On March 17, Professor Dengel traveled to Liverpool John Moores University in England to present “Childhood Obesity: Vascular Consequences and Solutions” at a seminar with the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences.
The University of Minnesota hosted a Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship Program seminar on March 7. Dengel presented “The Effects Of Chemotherapy And Radiation On Vascular Function: From Peripheral To Cerebral.”
The University of Minnesota’s Department of Neurology invited Professor Dengel to present “The Effects of Obesity on Vascular Function: From Peripheral to Cerebral” at the Neurology Grand Rounds seminar on February 3.
