Subscribe<http://eepurl.com/bckAEX> | Archive <http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=136171bc13e56eae0ccfa44e1&id... | Online Version<http://education.utsa.edu/coehdnews/2016_COEHDnews/> education.utsa.edu<http://education.utsa.edu/> [COEHDnews] <http://www.facebook.com/UTSACOEHD><http://twitter.com/intent/follow... COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, November 11, 2016 Spotlight COEHD doctoral student receives national award for research<http://education.utsa.edu/spotlight/article/coehd_doctoral_st... [20161103 082528-2] Elizabeth Cook, doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the 2016 - 2017 Gaye Theresa Johnson African American Studies Doctoral Fellow, was selected to receive the 2016 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) – Taylor & Francis Past President’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Dissertation Research. Nominated by Dr. Theodorea Berry, Cook's application was chosen from a national applicant pool and her writing has demonstrated exceptional potential in the area of educational studies. Additionally, her research paper was also selected and highlighted as the 'Reviewer's Choice' Critical Race Studies and Women in Education presentation this year and is based on her dissertation titled, "Black Faces in Brown Spaces: Black Women Graduate Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions in the South." (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Cook) [Facebook]<https://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/facebook/offer... [Twitter] <https://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/twitter/offer?url=http://ed... [Email] <https://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/email/offer?url=http://educ... [Print] <https://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/print/offer?url=http://educ... 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Dissertation Title: Read Aloud Discussions: Influence of Teacher Understanding of Visual Text Date & Time: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 at 4:00pm Location: Main Campus Room: Main Building 2.014 Dissertation Chair: Dr. Miriam Martinez Committee Members: Dr. Lucila Ek Dr. Janis Harmon Dr. Misty Sailors Presentation is open to the public Researchers: New and Improved Disclosure of Financial Interests Form Launched November 7!<http://education.utsa.edu/awards_announcements/article/researchers_... Vice President for Research In response to researchers’ request, the Office of Research Integrity teamed with the Office of Information Technology to develop a software system for financial disclosure that looks and feels more like TurboTax®. Although the questions are the same, the enhanced website navigation reduces the amount of time spent completing this essential task. Your previous year’s data is now preloaded so this update will have minimal impact on you. 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[http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/clock.png] 6:30 pm [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/globe_earth.png] DT Campus - Buena Vista Building, 1.328 NOV 16 Student Success Transition Series: Know Your Student Rights<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/student_success_transit... [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/clock.png] TBD [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/globe_earth.png] Main Campus - TBD [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/rowdy_close.png] External News New exhibit pays tribute to the immigrant tradition of elaborately painted churches<http://www.expressnews.com/news/religion/article/New-exhibit-... by ELAINE AYALA - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 11/10 Immigrant groups that landed in Texas in the 19th century had neither the money nor materials to replicate the ornate churches of Europe they knew and loved. But what they had was paint, and they used it expertly to trick the eye, creating a grandeur that reminded them of the sacred spaces in their memories. “The Painted Churches of Texas,” a photo exhibit that pays tribute to them, opens at the Institute of Texan Cultures on Nov. 19 and will be open through March 5. It showcases what curator Sarah Gould calls the ingenious work of immigrants: Czech, German, Polish, Spanish and Mexican, among others. Out Of Options, This School Got Uber To Pick Up Its Students<http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/11/06/499601212/out-of-op... by LYDIA EMMANOUILIDOU - NPR | Pub: 11/10 When Patricia Gentile was settling in as the new president of North Shore Community College in Massachusetts — about twenty miles north of Boston — she remembers looking out her window and seeing something strange. SAISD Students Are The Big Winners Of A Bond And Tax Rate Increase<http://tpr.org/post/saisd-students-are-big-winners-bond-and-t... by LOUISA JONAS - Texas Public Radio | Pub: 11/10 The San Antonio Independent School District celebrated a decisive victory last night with more than 70 percent of voters approving two measures on the ballot—a $450 million bond, and a 13 cent property tax rate increase. Blueprint UTSA details university’s next steps toward Tier One<http://www.utsa.edu/today/2016/11/blueprintutsa.html> by COURTNEY CLEVENGER - UTSA Today | Pub: 11/09 University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) President Ricardo Romo has unveiled Blueprint UTSA, the strategic framework that will guide UTSA as it advances toward Tier One recognition. Bexar County high school attrition rate stays high<http://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Bexar-County-hi... by LAUREN CARUBA - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 11/07 By their senior year, more than a quarter of high school students in San Antonio will have left school, and the rate for Texas as a whole is only slightly better, according to a new report. International conference begins with ceremonial call to ‘the heart of the sky’<http://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/International-c... by SILVIA FOSTER-FRAU - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 11/07 Using torches, a conch, a jug of water and husks of corn to represent Earth’s four elements, a small group of indigenous people from across Texas performed a traditional dance Friday morning to open up a sacred space at the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus. ________________________________ Publications Signaling meaning through punctuation in writing: children transitioning from oral to written… ROSALIND HOROWITZ - Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching | UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works: 10/26 Abdul-Baki L, Ochoa M, Torres-Cruz L, Morales J, Flores C, Franco I, Guerrero S, and Horowitz, R. (2016). Signaling meaning through punctuation in writing: Children transitioning from oral to written argumentation. 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Research CITL Literacy Coaching at Barrera Veterans Elementary in Somerset ISD<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> Somerset Independent School District Submitted: $1,800 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Misty Sailors Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: A Non-Invasive Elderly Sensor Platform<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> Wise Wear Inc Submitted: $6,274 Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI: Sakiko Oyama Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI: Employment Patterns in Educator Sexual Misconduct<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> Spencer Foundation Submitted: $46,634 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies PI: David Thompson Educational Leadership and Policy Studies CI: Catherine Robert Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Designing Academic Conversations: Effects on Writing and Reading Argumentation in Science and…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $10,000 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Rosalind Horowitz Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: The Contributions of Language Skills to Bilingual Children’s Literacy Development in Early…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $9,980 Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI: Becky Huang Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI: Nicole Wicha Other Academics Youth Affinity Group and Reading: Its Effect on Increasing Literacy<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $9,924 Other Academics PI: Jeffrey Halley Other Academics CI: Alicia Villareal Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Inferential Thinking in Early Childhood Classrooms<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $9,938 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Misty Sailors Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: Guan Saw Educational Psychology Engaging Preschoolers in Literacy through Parent-Created Stories<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $10,000 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Miriam Martinez Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: Janis Harmon Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching The Use of Postmodern Picture Books to Promote Close Reading by Fourth Grade Latino/a Students<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> VPR- Achieving Literacy Initiative (ALI) Submitted: $10,000 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Janis Harmon Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: Miriam Martinez Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Exploring the Pedagogical Language Knowledge of Secondary Science teachers<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI: Jorge Solis Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI: Assessing Protective Health Factors among bisexual Latinxs in South Texas<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: $5,000 Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI: Phillip Schnarrs Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI: Sara Oswalt Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition Coping with Academic Distress: Measuring College Students’ Behavior Change Using the…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $4,947 Educational Psychology PI: Kara Styck Educational Psychology CI: Detection of fatigue using a wearable sensor in baseball pitchers<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $4,901 Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI: Sakiko Oyama Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI: Preparing Bilingual Teachers to Support Scientific Biliteracy<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI: Jorge Solis Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI: Exploring Moral Panic and Transgender Rights in the U.S.: Development of the Moral Panic…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $2,500 Counselling PI: Derek Robertson Counselling CI: Allison Pow Counselling Dietary Supplement Intake, Potential Medication- Supplement Interactions, and Sarcopenia in the…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: $4,995 Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI: Sarah Ullevig Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI: Whether and Under What Conditions Inclusive STEM High Schools influence Student Outcomes?<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $5,000 Educational Psychology PI: Guan Saw Educational Psychology CI: An Investigation of the Validity of a University-Level ESL Placement Assessment<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $4,912 Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI: Becky Huang Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI: Juliet Langman Bicultural-Bilingual Studies L.E.A.P.S. (Learning Engineering, Acoustics, and Physics with Synthesizers)<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: $4,995 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Vittorio Marone Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: Digital Literacy Practices of 1st Generation Multilingual Hispanic Students: Understanding the…<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: $4,945 Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI: Martha Sidury Christiansen Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI: Universal Mental Health Screening: Implications for School-Based Evaluation and Intervention<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Submitted: $4,267 Educational Psychology PI: Victor Villarreal Educational Psychology CI: Jeremy Sullivan Educational Psychology Culturally Responsive Applied Behavior Analysis<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> COEHD Faculty Research Award Awarded: $5,000 Educational Psychology PI: Leslie Neely Educational Psychology CI: Aerobic exercise and central pain inhibitory processing in African Americans<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> National Institutes of Health R21 Submitted: $373,786 Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI: Masataka Umeda Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI: Examining Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior<http://education.utsa.edu/research/subs_and_awards/> National Institutes of Health R21 Submitted: $274,008 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI: Lee Mason Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI: ________________________________ [https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/education.utsa....] <http://www.facebook.com/UTSACOEHD><http://twitter.com/intent/follow... 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