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Eric Anderman,
from the Department
of Educational & Counseling Psychology, is Co Principal Investigator
on a five-year grant that has been funded by the National Institute
for Nursing Research (NINR), in the amount of $2,086,866. The study
will examine the effects of teachers' motivational strategies on student
learning about HIV/STD prevention in high school health education classrooms.
Ron Atwood, science education professor in the Department
of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I), was a co-developer of a
proposal, Appalachian Mathematics and Science Partnership, which resulted
in a $22 million grant to the University of Kentucky from the National
Science Foundation (NSF). Truman Stevens, Jim Rinehart and Doug
Jones from the College of Education also contributed to the proposal,
as did several faculty members from the College of Arts and Science.
As Co-P.I., Atwood will lead the science initiatives of the Partnership.
The project is intended to strengthen mathematics and science education
in pre-K -16 classrooms in Appalachia, including coursework taken by
pre-service and in-service teachers. Partners in the project include
52 school districts, nine higher education institutions and other organizations.
The grant's PI is Paul Eakin, Professor of Mathematics in the College
of Arts and Sciences. Other Co PI's include Wimberly Royster, former
UK vice president for research and graduate studies and professor emeritus
of mathematics; Steve Henderson, ARSI project director; and Carl Lee,
UK mathematics professor. The five-year grant is the largest single
award in UK's history.
Bill Berdine, chair of the Department of Special
Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, received acknowledgement
and thanks from President George W. Bush for his work as a member of
the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education. The report
the Commission developed and submitted last spring, 2002 will be used
in the re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA).
Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Department
of Administration and Supervision (EDA), received news from the
US Department of Education that the grant application, School Leadership
Development Program: Kentucky s Collaborative Model for Developing School
Leaders for Rural High-Need Schools, was approved for funding in
the amount of $475,874. EDA professors Keith Gurley and Bonnie C.
Johnson, who will serve as project Co-Investigators, assisted Ferrigno,
the project Principal Investigator. The three-year funding grant is
to support advanced leadership development for practicing and non-practicing
certified administrators in Pike County, Kentucky. The grant application
was ranked 7th nationally out of 175 evaluated by the technical reviewers.
Only 19 projects were funded.
Pat Carlin presented three workshops at Kentucky Conference for
Teachers of Foreign Languages (KCTFL),
the statewide conference for Foreign Language teachers, on September
20-21 in Louisville, KY. She also presented two workshops for teachers
at KAEA on October 4th and 5th at Morehead State University.
Jody Clasey of the Department of
Kinesiology and Health Promotion gave the opening research presentation
at the International Body Composition Conference in Rome, Italy on Thursday,
October 3rd.
Belva Collins of the special education and rehabilitation counseling
department was the guest speaker for a conference in Moline, IL, on
Oct. 18. The conference was on "Accomodating Persons with Special
Needs in Inclusive Community Activities." Last month Collins
and John Schuster were keynote speakers for the Utah State Instructional
Technology Institute in Logan, UT, on Aug. 27. Their topic was "Measuring
Instructor Behaviors in Distance Education Courses."
The Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation,
and Dance (KAHPERD) named Vonnie
Colvin, of the Department of Kinesiology
and Health Promotion, the 2002 University Physical Educator of the
Year by. She received news of this recognition in September.
Alan DeYoung, professor in the educational policy studies and
evaluation department, is co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming
chapter on Education in Appalachia in the National
Endowment for the Humanities sponsored ENCYCLOPEDIA OF APPALACHIA,
a major project coordinated by East Tennessee State University.
Kim Miller from the kinesiology and health promotion department
(KHP) published an article on theoretical applications to understanding
physical activity behaviors in the American
Journal of Health Behavior, a publication of the American Academy
of Health Behavior.
Melody Noland and Kim Miller of the Department of Kinesiology
and Health Promotion were invited guest co-editors for The Health
Education Monograph Series on Mentoring. The Health Education Monograph
Series is a publication of Eta Sigma Gamma, a profession health education
honorary.
Melody Noland, along with Ellen Hahn and Mary Kay Rayens from
the College of Nursing, recently had a paper published in the Journal
of School Health. The paper addressed the efficacy of training and
fidelity of implementation of the Life Skills Training Program,
a drug prevention curriculum.
Liz Spalding (Department
of Curriculum and Instruction) published two articles in October,
2002. The first was a collaboration with Angene Wilson entitled
"Demystifying Reflection: A Study of Pedagogical Strategies that
Encourage Reflective Journal Writing" in the October 2002 issue
of Teachers College Record. The second was "Of Organelles
and Octagons: What do Preservice Secondary Teachers Learn from Interdisciplinary
Teaching?" in Teaching and Teacher Education.
John R.Thelin, professor in the educational
policy studies and evaluation department and University Research
Professor, had his paper on University Presidents accepted for presentation
at the Association for the Study of Higher Education in November in
Sacramento, California.
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STUDENTS
Lisa Collins, doctoral student in Higher Education and assistant
dean of the UK Graduate School, is one of 20 graduate students in the
nation who was accepted to participate in the Higher Education and Public
Policy Forum sponsored by the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
The Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation,
and Dance (KAHPERD) named Jessica
Hamilton Health Education Student of the Year. Hamilton is a student
in the Department of Kinesiology
and Health Promotion. It is the second year in a row that a student
from the University of Kentucky has been selected for the honor.
Kathy McDonald, a LBD major in special education, was recently
awarded a scholarship through the Midwest Symposium on Leadership in
Behavioral Disorders. This is a nationally competitive award for undergraduate
students. Kathy will be recognized for her leadership, scholarship,
and service in Kansas City this spring at the national conference.
Adrienne McMahan, doctoral student in EPE
collaborated with colleague Cindy Iten in Salt Lake City, Utah to make
a presentation last week at the National
Academic Advising Association entitled, "Faculty and Support
Staff: Coaches and Trainers for Student Success." Adrienne also
won a National award in Utah for Advising Administration.
Shirley P. O'Brien published two articles in national education
publications last month. Graduate education: Role and value at a public
comprehensive university in Kentucky, was published in The Eastern Scholar.
The lonely hearts club: Research within a teaching institution? was
included in the 15th Annual Midwest Dean's Occupational Therapy Research
Conference Abstracts.
Jo Smith, a physical education student in the Department of Kinesiology
and Health Promotion, was named the 2002-2003 Physical Education
Student of the Year by the Kentucky Association for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation, and Dance (KAHPERD).
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ALUMNI
Amy Hack Johnson, a 1993 graduate from the counseling psychology
program at the College of Education, is the chief psychologist of Tennessee
Oncology. She helped create the psychological services division and
recently published two articles in Hematology
Oncology News & Issues.
Amy E. Wells, recent Ph.D. from UK's EPE
Department and now Professor at the University of New Orleans, had an
article published in the "History of Higher Education Annual."
The title of her article is "Contested Ground: Howard Odum, the
Southern Agrarians, and the Emerging University in the South During
the 1930s."
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