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| Gallagher
Recognized for International Leadership in Research 
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Jim Gallagher, professor (TE), received the highest award presented by the National Association for Research in Science Teaching for his distinguished contributions to science education through research. The association is a professional organization with world-wide membership devoted to improvement of teaching and learning in science through research. The award was presented before an audience of more than 700 researchers from many nations. Presentation was made by Dr. David Treagust, professor of science education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, President-elect of the association. The award citation read in part, "Professor Gallagher is an outstanding researcher and educator who has consistently provided leadership and made seminal contributions to science education research... Through his vision, experience, charisma, and extensive knowledge, Dr. Gallagher has made an indelible impression on science education research in numerous countries, inspiring, empowering, and guiding many others to become highly productive researchers." Gallagher has been involved in research
and teaching at home and abroad since coming to MSU in 1976.
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Kielbaso
Selected as "Boss of the Year"  |
Gloria
Kielbaso, co-director of the Michigan Center for Career and Technical
Education (MCCTE), was selected as Boss of the Year by MSU’s Business
Women’s Association.
Kielbaso received the recognition for the many years of outstanding performance in her position. Kielbaso, who has worked at the College of Education for 17 years, has mentored and supported many faculty members, staff, and students, as well as advising numerous graduate students. She has taught courses in the College of Education, College of Business and at Lansing Community College. Kielbaso, who has been co-director of MCCTE since 1989, has published widely in the are of workplace literacy, career development, and learning in adulthood. Over the years, she had been active in curriculum development for the Michigan Department of Education. She is past president of the Faculty and Professional Women’s Association at MSU. ......................... |
| Faculty News | Dean
Carole Ames received the Distinguished Education Alumni 1998
Friend of Education Award from Purdue University’s School of Education. ............................. |
| Ann
Austin, associate professor (EAD), was named recently as
one of the 40 Young Leaders of the Academy by the American Association
of Higher Education and Change magazine. ............................... |
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| Alfiee
M. Breland, assistant professor (CEPSE), published "A
model for defferential perceptions of competence based on skin tone
among Africa Americans" in the October issue of the Journal
of Multicultural Counseling and Development. ................................ |
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| Jere
Brophy, university distinguished professor (TE) was elected
as a lifetime Fellow of the International Academy of Education. .................................. |
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| Nancy
Crewe, professor (CEPSE), was re-elected president of the
Council on Rehabilitation Education, the national body that accredits
graduate programs in rehabilitation counselor education. .............................. |
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| Deborah
Feltz, department chairperson (KIN), has published with one
of her graduate students, Deborah Garza (M.S. ’96). "Effects
of selected mental practice on performance, self-efficacy and competition
confidence of figure skaters," in The Sport Psychologist.
She also has written with Melissa Chase (Ph.D. ’95) a chapter titled
"The measurement of self-efficacy and confidence in sport"
in Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology Measurement"(J.
Duda, Ed.). ................................. |
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Jeanne Foley,
assistant professor (KIN), received the Senior Class Council Award
for Outstanding Faculty member. |
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| Linda
Forrest, associate professor
(CEPSE), was presented the Woman of the Year Award by the American Psychological
Association's Division of Counseling Psychology. At the annual APA meeting
in August, she spoke on "Building Feminist Houses and Neighbouhoods:
Conscious Attention to Our Differences." She has also selected
as a fellow in the APA, and has been appointed to a three-year term
as the associate editor of The Counseling Psychologist. ................................. |
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| Fred
Lopez, professor (CEPSE), presented a paper at the First
Luso-American Symposium in Psychology, which was held in Maia, Portugal
in May. The title of the presenation was "An attachment-theoretical
program of research in counseling psychology: What have we learned? .................................. |
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| Robert
Malina, professor (KIN) and director of the Institute for
the Study of Youth Sports, was the invited lecturer at a symposium on
"Genetics of Health-related Physical Fitness" at the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. His lecture was titled "Genetic
considerations in motor development and performance." He also lectured
at the annual meeting of American Society for Clinical Nutrition in
San Francisco. He lectured on "Age-, sex-, and maturity-associated
variation in subcutaneous fat distribution." ....................................... |
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| Anna
Neumann, associate professor (CEPSE), has been awarded a
three-year grant through the Spencer Foundation's Major Research Grants
Program to study professors’ learning and scholarly identity development
in the early post-tenure career. The study represents an extension of
her current work on professors' intellectual and personal development
at early mid-career, and intellectual identity development throughout
the course of scholarly careers. .................................... |
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| Peggy
Riethmiller, professor (TE),was recently reelected as co-chair
of the education section of the Michigan Academy for Science, Arts,
and Letters. .................................. |
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| Vern
Seefeldt, professor emeritus and former director of the Youth
Sports Institute, was presented the Margie R. Hanson Award at the American
Alliance of Human Performance, Exercise, Recreation, and Dance convention
for his contribution to physical education for children ................................... |
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| David Steward, professor (CEPSE), was appointed to the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees. Gallaudet is in Washington, D.C., and is the only liberal arts university for the deaf in the world. | |
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