COEHDnews Week of Fri, September 26, 2014 Recent News: Norma Guerra named Director of Faculty Engagement<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/norma_guerra_named_d... By Jo Ann Jones | September 24, 2014 Dr. Norma Guerra, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was named Director of Faculty Engagement. Her nine-month appointment began Sept. 1 with the start of the school year and will continue through May. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/norma_guerra_named_direct... ________________________________ National School Success Month: Accelerated Schools Program Model implementation<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/national_school_... By Joan Vasbinder, Director, National Center for Accelerated Schools | September 23, 2014 This final article in the National Center Accelerated series highlights the implementation of partial and full partnerships of the Accelerated Schools Program (ASP) Model. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/national_school_success_m... ________________________________ UTSA celebrates inaugural National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/utsa_celebrates_inaugural_... By Jo Ann Jones | September 18, 2014 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will join hundreds of universities from around the United States to celebrate the inaugural National Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Week. The weeklong celebration began on Sept. 14 and continues through Sept. 20, coinciding with the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/utsa_celebrates_inaugural... ________________________________ How I become a therapist: Angelica Tello<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/how_i_become_a_therapist_... By Angelica Tello | September 18, 2014 Mexican American counselor and COEHD student, Angelica Tello, explains how she found her voice to speak up for disadvantaged people. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/how_i_become_a_therapist_... ________________________________ Call for nominations: education research awards<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/call_for_nominations_edu... By Jo Ann Jones | September 18, 2014 The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is seeking nominations for the 2015 AERA Awards recognizing exemplary contributions to education research. The awards will be presented at the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago, IL. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/call_for_nominations_educ... ________________________________ [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/newspaper.png] All News stories<http://education.utsa.edu/news/> Research/Grants/Awards: COEHD FIVE MOST RECENT RESEARCH AWARDS Department of Education $2,584,850 Sustainable Support System for Student Success (S5) - (Academy for Teacher Excellence) Principal Investigator: Lorena Claeys Co-Investigator: Margarita Machado-Casas City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District $ 50,000 Evaluation Services of Sodium Reduction Initiative - (Kinesiology, Health, & Nutrition) Principal Investigator: Erica Sosa Co-Investigator: Sarah Ullevig City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District $ 40,000 Evaluation of Health Education Curriculum and Campaign - (Kinesiology, Health, & Nutrition) Principal Investigator: Erica Sosa Co-Investigator: Sara Oswalt Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) $ 573,095 Building a Healthy Temple Cancer Primary Prevention Program Amongst Hispanics - (Kinesiology, Health, & Nutrition) Principal Investigator: Meizi He Co-Investigator: Zenong Yin, Erica Sosa Contact Us Byron Spencer<mailto:byron.spencer@utsa.edu> Sr. Communications Specialist COEHD Office of the Dean The University of Texas at San Antonio T: 210.458.7396 Jo Ann Jones<mailto:Joann.Jones@utsa.edu> Communications Specialist COEHD Office of the Dean The University of Texas at San Antonio T: 210.458.4486 Marissa Villa<mailto:Marissa.Villa@utsa.edu> Multimedia Editor III Office of University Communications and Marketing The University of Texas at San Antonio T: 210.458.4937 External Media: Measuring Students’ Self-Control: A ‘Marshmallow Test’ for the Digital Age<http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/measuring-self-control-a-m... By Ingfei Chen | September 22, 2014 (MIND/SHIFT) -- The “marshmallow test” invented by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and colleagues in the 1960s is famously known as a measure of willpower. The experiment gave preschoolers the option of either eating one mini-marshmallow right away or waiting 15 minutes to get two mini-marshmallows. Decades later, those who were better at delaying gratification, and resisted immediately snarfing the treat, ended up with stronger SAT scores, higher educational achievement and greater self-esteem and capacity to cope with stress in adulthood. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/measuring-self-control-a... ________________________________ Jargon-Free History Of The Universe Finds Beauty In Ordinary Words<http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/09/21/143774/jargonfree_hist... By WADE GOODWYN | September 25, 2014 (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO) -- A couple of years ago in Switzerland after years of searching, scientists finally found the so-called God particle, the Higgs boson, which holds our universe together. This was arguably the biggest discovery in all of science in decades. But here's how they announced it. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOE INCANDELA: If we combine the ZZ and Gamma-Gamma in the region of 125GV, they combine to give us a combined significance of five standard deviations. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/09/21/143774/jargonfree_hist... ________________________________ South San ISD Kids Now Hooked Up With e-Readers And BiblioTech<http://tpr.org/post/south-san-isd-kids-now-hooked-e-readers... By EILEEN PACE | September 25, 2014 (TPR NEWS) -- Many of the students in South San Antonio ISD have never had access to a Nook or a Kindle, but thanks to the Hidalgo Foundation, 200 kids at a time will be able to read their favorite books from BiblioTech. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://tpr.org/post/south-san-isd-kids-now-hooked-e-readers-and-... ________________________________ Texas University Faces Trial for Ousting Employee Who Defied Congressman<http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-University-Faces-Trial/... By Peter Schmidt | September 25, 2014 (CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) -- A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a former art-galleries director at Stephen F. Austin State University to try to paint several administrators there as having trampled his First Amendment rights in order to appease a U.S. congressman he had defied and harshly criticized. In a ruling handed down last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the administrators’ bid to have the former galleries director’s lawsuit dismissed, saying the administrators should have known they risked violating his free-speech rights in pushing him out of his job after his clash with Rep. Louis B. (Louie) Gohmert Jr., a Republican. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-University-Faces-Trial/148951... ________________________________ Many Children With Asthma, Food Allergies Lack School Emergency Plans<http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113230896/children-with-ast... By Marla Paul | September 25, 2014 (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) -- Only one in four students with asthma and half of children with food allergies have emergency health management plans in place at school, leaving schools inadequately prepared to manage daily needs and handle medical emergencies related to often life-threatening medical conditions, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study in partnership with Chicago Public Schools (CPS). [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://education.utsa.edu/features/coehdnews_news/Read%20more%20... ________________________________ Higher Risk of Autism Found in Children Born at Short and Long Interpregnancy Intervals<http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-jo... By American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | September 25, 2014 (EUREKALERT!) -- A study published in the MONTH 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that children who were conceived either less than 1 year or more than 5 years after the birth of their prior sibling were more likely to be diagnosed with autism than children conceived following an interval of 2-5 years. [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journa... ________________________________ When the digital classroom meets the parents<http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/when... By Adriene Hill | September 25, 2014 (NPR MARKETPLACE) -- Parents can track their kids academic performance like never before. Should they? [http://education.utsa.edu/images/uploads/news-read.png] Full Story<http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/when-d... ________________________________ Upcoming Events: [Women’s History Month 2015 Information Meeting]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/womens_history_month_... Women’s History Month 2015 Information Meeting<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/womens_history_month_2... Thu, September 25, 2014 Time: 11 a.m. Location: Main Campus Building: University Center Mesquite Room, 2.01.14 [Dr. Freeman Hrabowski Lecture]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/dr._freeman_hrabowski... Dr. Freeman Hrabowski Lecture<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/dr._freeman_hrabowski_... Thu, September 25, 2014 Time: 6 p.m. Location: Main Campus Building: Main Building Auditorium, 0.104 [TExES Workshop]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/texes_workshop> TExES Workshop<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/texes_workshop> Sat, September 27, 2014 Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Location: Main Campus Building: University Center: Mesquite Room (2.01.24), Oak Room (2.01.20), Pecan Room (2.01.26) [Teaching Geometry Through Quilts]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/teaching_geometry_thro... Teaching Geometry Through Quilts<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/teaching_geometry_throu... Tue, October 7, 2014 Time: 6 - 8 p.m. Location: Institute of Texan Cultures Building: 801 E. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78205 [Literacy Education Colloquium: Literacy in a Multimodal World]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/literacy_education_coll... Literacy Education Colloquium: Literacy in a Multimodal World<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/literacy_education_collo... Sat, October 11, 2014 Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Location: Downtown Campus Building: TBD [COEHD Graduate Studies Open House]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_graduate_studies_... COEHD Graduate Studies Open House<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_graduate_studies_o... Sat, October 11, 2014 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Main Campus Building: Main Building, Ground Floor [COEHD Faculty Workshop on Military Culture]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_faculty_worksho... COEHD Faculty Workshop on Military Culture<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_faculty_workshop... Fri, October 17, 2014 Time: 1 - 3:15 p.m. Location: Main Campus Building: John Peace Library Faculty Center Conference Room, JPL 404.12C [COEHD Faculty Workshop on Military Culture]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_faculty_worksho... COEHD Faculty Workshop on Military Culture<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/coehd_faculty_workshop... Mon, October 20, 2014 Time: 1 - 3:15 p.m. Location: Downtown Campus Building: Durango Building, 2.304 [Decolonial Epistemologies: Identity, Memory, and Belonging in Education]<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/decolonial_epistemo... Decolonial Epistemologies: Identity, Memory, and Belonging in Education<http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/decolonial_epistemol... Fri, October 24, 2014 Time: TBD Location: Downtown Campus Building: TBD Page 1 of 2 pages 1 2<http://education.utsa.edu/features/coehdnews_news/P9> ><http://education.utsa.edu/features/coehdnews_news/P9> COEHDnews is produced by the Dean's Office every friday morning. News, Announcements, Upcoming Events, and Recent Events should be sent to Byron or Jo Ann as early as possibe to maximize exposure.