Faculty News & Notes

November 2015

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Faculty Awards & Honors:

John Allegrantereceived the Mayhew Derryberry Award from the American Public Health Association's Public Health Education and Health Promotion section at the annual meeting.

Noah Drezner is the 6th Annual Barbara Townsend Lecturer at theAssociation for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference this month. His talk is entitled “Fundraising and Institutional Advancement: Theory, Practice, and New Paradigms”.

Noah Drezner will be honored with the Phillip Merrill Presidential Scholar Mentor award at the University of Maryland.

HenryM.Levinreceived the "Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Education Research Award" by the Ming Yuan Education Foundation, the first foreign recipient of this award.

Henry Levin gave an invited address at Beijing Normal Universitythis past October entitled “A Broad View of Economics of Education in China”.

Henry Levin delivered the keynote address this past October at the International Conference on Financing World Class Universities at Peking University entitled “Financing Elite Universities in the U.S”.

Henry Levingave an invited address this past October at the Lemann Brazilian Center at Stanford University entitled “A Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Program to Increase Community College Graduation Rates”.

Xiadong Lin has been invited to be a keynote speaker by the National Academy of Sciences for an upcoming symposium on hard-to-measure competencies in December 2015.

Janet Miller presented a keynote address at the European Conference on Curriculum Studies, held this past October in Porto, Portugal,entitled"Curriculum Communities without Consensus: Disunities of Collaboration”.

Sandra Schmidt received the College & University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) Scholar Award.

Sandra Schmidtreceived the Early Career Award of the National Council for the Social Studies-College and University Faculty Assembly this pastThursdayin New Orleans.

Faculty Publications of Books and Refereed Journal Articles:

Mulqueeny, K., Kostyuk, V., Baker, Ryan. S., Ocumpaugh, J. (2015). Incorporating effective e-learning principles to improve studentengagement in middle-school mathematics. International Journal of STEMEducation,2(15).

Cortina, Regina. & De La Garza, K. (Eds.). (2015).Educación, pueblos indígenas e interculturalidad en América Latina [Education, indigenous peoples and interculturality in Latin America]. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya Yala.

Marneweck, M, Knelange, L, Lee, T, Santello, M,Gordon, Andrew, M. (2015). Generalization ofdexterous manipulation is sensitive to the frame of reference in which it is learned.PLoS One

16;10(9):e0138258. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138258. eCollection.

Wolff, A, Raghavan, P, Kaminski, TR, Hillstrom, HJ,Gordon, Andrew, M. (2015) Differentiation ofhandposture to object shape in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.ResearchDevelopmentalDisabilities45-46, 422-330.

Bleyenheuft, Y, Dricot, L, Gilis, N, Kuo, HC, Grandin, C, Bleyenheuft, C,Gordon, Andrew, M, Friel, KM. (2015). Capturing neuroplastic changes after bimanual intensive rehabilitation in childrenwith unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: A combined DTI, TMS and fMRI pilot study.Researchin DevelopmentalDisabilities43-44,136-149.

Bleyenheuft, Y, Arnould,C, Brandao, MB, Bleyenheuft, C,Gordon, Andrew, M.(2015). Hand and arm bimanual intensive therapy including lower extremity (HABIT-ILE) in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: A randomized trial.Neural Rehabilitation and NeuralRepair29,645–657.

Lena, Jennifer, C.(2015).Genre: Relational approaches to the sociology of music. In L. Hanquinet & M. Savage (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of the sociology of art and culture (pp. 149-160). New York: Routledge.

Miller, Janet. L. (2015). Maxine's voice and unfinished conversations.Educational Studies, 51(5),413-416.

Schmidt, Sandra. J., & Kenreich, T. (2015). In a space but not of it: Uncovering racial narratives through geography.In P. Chandler (Ed.),Doing race in social studies. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Lena, Jennifer C. ( 2015).Genre: Relational approaches to the sociology of music.In L. Hanquinet & M. Savage (Eds.),Routledge international handbook of the sociology of art and culture (pp. 149-160). New York: Routledge

Sue, D., Sue, Derald. W., Sue, D. & Sue, S. (2017). Essentials of understanding abnormal behavior(3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage.

Neville, H. A., Gallardo, M. E., & Sue, Derald. W. (2016).The myth of racial color blindness: Manifestations, dynamics and impact. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association.

Public Communication:

Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts:

New grant monies

Project Director / Project Title / Grantor / Grant
Thomas Bailey /
Evaluation of Supportive Blended Learning to Improve Transfer Outcomes /
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation /
$ 599,998
Thomas Bailey/ Elisabeth Barnett / Landscaping Scan of Developmental Education Assessment and Alternative Assessment Designs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa / Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation / $ 51,525
Alex Bowers / BIG DATA: Eager: Using Big Data to Investigate Longitudinal Education Outcomes through Visual Analytics /
National Science Foundation /
$ 299,680
Jeffrey Henig /
Center for Public Research and Leadership Expansion /
Columbia University /
$ 28,823
Henry Levin /
Design Paper for Study of Costs of Communities in Schools /
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation / $ 20,046
Sharon Lynn Kagan /
Promote Cultural Competence in Early Childhood Classrooms by Advancing Cultural Responsiveness in State Learning Standards /
Foundation for Child Development / $ 28,300
Mary Mendenhall /
Global, National and Local Intersections: Educational Policies and Schooling Practices for Urban Refugees /
United States Department of State /
$ 193,295

Renewal grant monies

Project Director / Project Title / Grantor / Grant
Peter Coleman / Fortune Participatory Action ICCCR / Columbia University / $ 111,420
A. Lin Goodwin / Teacher Residents at TC 2 / United States Department of Education / $1,625,019
Andrew Gordon / Neural Predictors of Hand Therapy Efficacy in Children with Cerebral Palsy / Masterson-Burke Medical Research / $ 141,814

Supplement grant monies

Project Director /
Project Title /
Grantor /
Grant
Alex Bowers / Collaborative Proposal: A Data-Intensive Exploration of the Links Between SES and STEM Learning Outcomes / Duke University / $ 12,706
Edmund Gordon / A Study Group on Diversity, Equity and Excellence in Achievement and Assessment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education / National Science Foundation / $ 59,001