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STUDENT NEWS Six new Spencer fellows were selected for fellowships. They are: Jo Allen Lesser (TE), who will be working with Jack Schwille; Beth Herbel-Eisenmann (TE), who will be working with David Pimm and Jack Smith; Richard Ferdig (CEPSE), who will be working with Yong Zhao; Kara Lycke (CEPSE), who will be working with David Pearson and Laura Apol; Gwen McMillon (TE), who will be working with Pat Edwards; and Ruth Berry (CEPSE), who will be working with Carol Sue Englert. The College received the $1 million Spencer Foundation grant last year to support the preparation of doctoral students. Spencer fellows are in their middle years of doctoral work and are teamed with faculty members.
Of the 21 student teacher/interns who were recognized in the 1997-98 Michigan Association of Teacher Educators Student Teacher/Intern of the Year contest in May, 11 of them were MSU graduates who had recently completed their internship. Kumud Khattar, who did her internship at the Center for Language, Culture, and Communication Arts in Lansing, was selected Outstanding Student/Intern Teacher during the 1997-98 academic year. Runner up in the contest was Maria Gabriel, who interned at Waterford Village Elementary in Waterford. Shelila Persails, who interned at Attwood Elementary in Lansing, was selected as a semifinalist. Honorable mentions were Jennifer Arseneau, Courtney Endres, Jessica Grunow, Tiwanya Hart, Becky Kley, Kirsten McHugh, Miranda Skula, and Lauri Wiegand. Lisa Joy Ballenger was selected to represent MSU at the Michigan Association of Governing Boards (MAGB) Awards banquet. Ballenger is a student-athlete who has maintained a 3.5416 GPA while competing in track, cross country, and crew. She taught sports skills to children with disabilities in the Sports Skills Program and to elementary school children in the Motor Performance Program. She also assists in an anatomy course for MSU undergraduate students, and on a research project on exercise expenditure in pregnant women. Ballenger was also honored as an outstanding senior by the Senior Class Council. Keri Biniecki, a kinesiology major, was one of 13 MSU students to receive an outstanding senior award by the Senior Class Council. |
Karyn Boatwright won the 1998 MSU Outstanding Woman Graduate Student Award given by the MSU Faculty Professional Women's Association. She was honored at the FPWA Awards Banquet on April 7. Boatwright will receive her Ph.D. from the Counseling Psychology Program this summer, is currently completing her American Psychological Association-accredited internship at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center, and recently accepted an assistant professor position in the Psychology Department at Kalamazoo College. Renee Fiott, a senior in Secondary Education majoring in Earth Science and minoring in English, is the recipient of the the President's Scholarship offered by the Kappa Delta Pi Educational Foundation. Renee's essay on the society's theme, Education: Windows of Hope and Opportunity, was selected by officers of the Epsilon Kappa Chapter of KDP at MSU as their submission for the international competition. Renee was one of five winners at the international level. This summer she will be an Astronomy instructior for 4th and 5th grade participants of Kid's College at MSU. Sharon Gizara won the College of Education Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award. Her dissertation, entitled "Supervisors' Constructions of Intern Impairment and Incompetence at APA-Accredited Internship Sites," involved analyzing interview data from counseling supervisors about the facilitators and barriers to identifying and working with trainees who were making inadequate professional progress. She presented her dissertation findings to College of Education faculty and graduate in April. Gizara received her Ph.D. from the Counseling Psychology program in June 1997. Jocelyn Glazier, a doctoral student in teacher education and a Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant Fellow, received the Shatil Nomi Fein Social Justice Fellowship. This fellowship will enable Glazier to conduct dissertation research in Israel. Jocelyn's project extends work she has done with Teacher Education Professor Susan Florio-Ruane on the Culture, Literacy and Autobiography Project. Glazier will research innovative Israeli curricula and instructional practices that allow Arab and Jewish students to dialogue by means of literature study.
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