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COEHD News:
By Jo Ann Jones | August 27, 2014
Two faculty members from the Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition (KHN) were awarded more than $650,000 in grants for their research projects.
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By Jo Ann Jones | August 26, 2014
Dr. Theodorea Berry, associate professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and director of the African American Studies program, was awarded the 2014 Critics Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
for her book, “The evolving significance of race: Living, learning, and teaching.”
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By Marissa Villa | August 25, 2014
When K-12 students head back to school around the city, chances are good they may be taught by a UTSA alum. The UTSA College of Education and Human Development offers the leading teacher training program in San Antonio. It sends out 500-600 teachers into classrooms
every year.
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By Jo Ann Jones | August 25, 2014
Linda Santos never thought she would be able to come back to school. The 47-year-old mother of two always knew teaching was something she was meant to do. She had more than a decade of experience working with children in the San Antonio Independent School district.
But becoming a teacher required a degree and she didn’t think she would make it through a teacher preparation program; that is, until she came to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
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By Olivia Lopez | August 22, 2014
The UTSA Mexico Center, in collaboration with the UTSA College of Public Policy and the St. Mary’s University Center for Legal and Social Justice, will host a conference, “Central American Young Migrants and the Border Crisis: Causes and Response,” on Tuesday,
Aug. 26 to discuss the factors fueling the recent influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America and the legal, policy and social responses to this humanitarian crisis.
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Research/Grants/Awards:
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VPR Weekly Awards Recap
08/18/14 – 08/22/14
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Co-PI
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Award Amount
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RSC
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Meizi He
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Zenong Yin, Erica Sosa
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COEHD-Kinesiology Health & Nutrition
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Building a Healthy Temple Cancer Primary Prevention Program Amongst Hispanics
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Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)
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$573,095
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EDU
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Erica Sosa
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Sara Oswalt
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COEHD-Kinesiology Health & Nutrition
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Evaluation of Health Education Curriculum and Campaign
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City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
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$40,000
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EDU
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Erica Sosa
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Sarah Ullevig
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COEHD-Kinesiology Health & Nutrition
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Evaluation Services of Sodium Reduction Initiative
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City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
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$50,000
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EDU
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External Media:
By Carl Straumsheim | August 22, 2014
(INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION) -- Can
the billion-dollar ed-tech industry, flush with funds from venture capital firms, keep up its record-setting investment pace, or is it setting itself up for a massive crash?
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By PAUL FLAHIVE | August 25, 2014
(TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO) -- Last
week was a busy one for Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, former chancellor of the University of Texas System. On Monday he found out he won the Julio Palmaz Award for innovation in health care and biosciences, and on Thursday the University of Texas replaced him, confirming
his successor, Admiral William McRaven.
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By Scott Jaschik | August 26, 2014
(INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION) -- Students
heading into their first year of college this year were generally born in 1996. During their initial weeks of kindergarten, this years class of freshmen were upset by endlessly repeated images of planes blasting into the World Trade Center.
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By Carl Straumsheim | August 27, 2014
(INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION) -- A
faculty member at Salem College bans students from emailing her. The goal: increasing student-faculty interaction.
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By Annie Baxter | August 27, 2014
(NPR MARKETPLACE) -- More
students are banking on the generosity of strangers to foot their bills. When Salina Vang begins her studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth next week, loans and scholarships will cover most of her expenses. To cover the rest, she launched a fundraising
campaign on the website GoFundMe, which allows users to pull in donations from friends, family and strangers.
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By Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, National Pre-K and Early Learning Evaluation Center | August 27, 2014
(FRANK PORTER GRAHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTE) -- A new summary of 12 years of research
on North Carolina’s pre-kindergarten program for at-risk 4-year-olds shows that “dual-language learners” make the greatest academic progress in the program. According to the report from UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), while students
in NC Pre-K advance across all spheres of learning, the program is especially beneficial for the state’s dual-language learners.
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By Charlie Tyson | August 28, 2014
(INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION) -- People
get furious with Cynthia Jones. Philosophy is known as the blood sport of the humanities, and Jones, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American, doesn’t shrink from conflict. But she’d been sparring not just with fellow philosophers
in seminar rooms, but with people from all corners of her campus.
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By RYAN POPPE | August 28, 2014
(TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO) -- State
lawmakers took issue with the Texas Education Agency’s plan to keep the standard for writing component of the Texas STAARS exam at a lower level for a third year in a row. Lawmakers voiced concerns with keeping the lower standard and changing the exam while
student performance remains flat.
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By EILEEN PACE | August 28, 2014
(TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO) -- The
UT Health Science Center has been named by Hispanic Business magazine as the top medical school for Hispanics in the U.S.
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By Jonah Newman | August 28, 2014
(NPR MARKETPLACE) -- If
you want to disrupt higher education, you’ve gotta look the part. So when the team at HarvardX, the university’s online learning initiative, began setting up its new offices in Cambridge, down came the walls and the cubicles, in came the long tables and shared
work spaces. And out went the landlines.
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By ANYA KAMENETZ | August 28, 2014
(NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO) -- Kaitlin
Morgan says, this year, her school district is going "full Google." Morgan teaches U.S. and world history and advises the yearbook at Woodlake Union High School in California's Central Valley. At Woodlake, "full Google" means a plan to have one Google Chromebook
for every two students by the spring, running Google Apps.
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