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Recent News:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 87

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the influential, Nobel Prize-winning author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera,” has died, his family and officials said.  (CNN)(COEHD/BBL Item of Interest)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/americas/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

No New Stories this Week

No new stories have been posted this week.  However, we do have several stories that we are working on (see below).  If you have a lead on student or faculty recognition, awards or research, or any item that you think would be of interest to COEHD Faculty and Staff.  Please let us know.

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UPCOMING NEWS STORIES
COEHD alumna named NISD First Year Educator of the Year
Northside Independent School District (NISD) recently named Lorena Sandoval, a COEHD alumna, as the 2013-2014 First Year Educator of the Year during their annual district-wide awards ceremony.

ELPS doctoral student accepted into summer scholar program
Elisabeth Krimbill, doctoral student in the College of Education and Human Development and assistant principal at Barbara Bush Middle School in North East Independent School District (NEISD), was accepted into the 2014 Public School Research Scholar's Program.

COEHD students receive University Life Awards
Pamela Bejarano and Adolph 'A.J.' Delgado were named the Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate student, respectively, for the College of Education and Human Development during the 38th annual University Life Awards.



Recent Awards:


COEHD - New Seed Funding for faculty research projects

Juliet Langman, Associate Professor, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Engaging English Learners in the Language of Science (eELsci): A Professional 

Development Program for High School Biology Teachers


Becky Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
The Role of Accent Familiarity in Speaking Assessment: A Cross-Linguistic 

Comparison between Chinese and Spanish Heritage and Non-Heritage Raters


Billie Jo Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
A Practical Approach for Teaching School Personnel to Develop Effective 

Function-Based Behavioral Interventions for Students with Challenging Behaviors


David P. Thompson, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Shattered Lives: What does it Mean When an Educator Sexually Abuses a Student

 






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