Faculty Awards

• Assistant professor of kinesiology Joe Eisenmann was appointed to the NACHRI Obesity FOCUS Group, a national task force working to address childhood obesity through hospital-based programs.
• Matthew Wawrzynski, assistant professor of higher, adult and lifelong education, was named an American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Diamond Honoree.
• Leigh Graves Wolf, coordinator of the educational technology master’s degree program, and Korine Wawrzynski, an adjunct faculty member in educational administration, were accepted into the inaugural cohort of the Walter and Pauline Adams Academy for Instructional Excellence and Innovation at MSU.
• Samantha Caughlan and Mary Juzwik, assistant professors of teacher education, received the Bates-Byers Endowment for Technology and Curriculum.
• Anne-Lise Halvorsen, assistant professor of teacher education, received a Lilly Teaching Fellowship from MSU for the 2008-09 year.
• Instructor Cindy Covell received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the MSU Senior Class Council for the 2007-08 academic year.
• Post-doctoral fellow Edna Tan received the first runner-up award for outstanding doctoral dissertation at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST).
• Associate professors of educational technology Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra received first place among fully online courses in the AT&T Awards Competition in Instructional Technology at MSU. Timothy Tansey, assistant professor of rehabilitation counseling, also received an honorable mention in the blended course category.
• Kinesiology Professor Gail Dummer was chosen as the Outstanding Professional of the Year by the Adapted Physical Activity Council of AAHPERD (the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance).
• Teacher education Professor Patricia Edwards was elected vice president of the International Reading Association (IRA).
• James S. Fairweather, professor of higher, adult and lifelong education, received an Erasmus Mundus visiting professorship from the European Union to teach at University of Tampere in Finland and University of Oslo in Norway from March through June 2008.
• Associate professor of teacher education Guofang Li received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Division G, which focuses on social contexts of education.
• Kinesiology Professor James Pivarnik was named president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine.
• Karin Pfeiffer, assistant professor of kinesiology, was named president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine, Midwest chapter.
• Susan Printy, associate professor of K-12 educational administration, was named an
  Outstanding Reviewer for Educational Administration Quarterly.
• Mark Reckase, professor of measurement and quantitative methods, was elected president of the National Council on Measurement in Education.
• Kristen Renn, associate professor higher, adult and lifelong education, received the Annuit Coeptis Award for professional excellence from the American College Personnel Association.
• Associate professor of teacher education Maria Teresa Tatto was elected vice president of the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES).
• Reitumetse Mabokela, associate professor of higher, adult and lifelong education, was named chair of the Comparative & International Education Society’s Gail P. Kelly Dissertation Award Committee.
• Peter Youngs, assistant professor of teacher education, was named an Outstanding Reviewer for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (AERA).
• Mary Juzwik, assistant professor of language and literacy, was elected publications chair and an executive board member for the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy through 2010.
• Punya Mishra, associate professor of educational technology, was co-recipient of third prize for best paper from the American Society for Engineering Education.

Students

• Two 2007-08 teaching interns, Meghan Callahan and Lisa Phillips, won top awards in the Michigan Association of Teacher Educators 23rd Annual Michigan Student Teacher/Intern of the Year Award competition. Callahan received second place for her exemplary internship year, while Phillips won the third-place award. A third teaching intern, Sarah B. Martin, earned an honorable mention in the competition.
• Michelle Mwalimu, a doctoral student in educational policy, received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship to conduct research in Zambia.
• Lanay Mudd, a kinesiology doctoral student, received a $35,000 fellowship from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study exercise during pregnancy.
• Amanda Gray Idema, a doctoral student in higher, adult and lifelong education, was elected president-elect of the Michigan Academic Advising Association, or MIACADA. Fellow HALE doctoral student Shannon Burton is currently president of the association.
• Two student athletes, Cole Malatinsky and Kate Burdick were honored with the President’s Award at the MSU Student Athlete Support Service’s Academic Excellence Gala.
• Doctoral student in K-12 educational administration, John Oliver, was named chair-elect of the AERA Graduate Student Council for the 2008-09 year.
• Eric Jessup-Anger, a doctoral student in higher, adult and lifelong education, received the Annuit Coeptis Award from the American College Personnel Association.
• Cedric Tai, who completed his K-12 art education certification in spring 2008, received the Students Making a Difference through Artistic Expression award from MSU.
• AERA honored Marisa Cannata, who received her Ph.D. in educational policy during spring 2007, with an Outstanding Dissertation Award in Division L: Education Policy and Politics.