Assistant Professor Dorothea Anagnostopoulos (TE), Assistant Dean Sonya Gunnings, and Assistant Professor Chris Dunbar (EAD) have been awarded a grant from the Skillman Foundation of Detroit to establish an academic enrichment/urban education project for Detroit high school students.

Professor Marilyn Amey (HALE ) served as guest editor of a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. She also authored an article in the issue titled "Leadership as learning: Conceptualizing the process." In addition, Amey was appointed to the Michigan Secondary to Postsecondary Transitions Task Force.

Clifford Erickson Professor Ann Austin (HALE) has co-authored a book with Mary Dean Sorcinelli of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and two hale alumni Pamela Eddy (PhD 02) of Central Michigan University and Andrea Beach (PhD 03) of Western Michigan University. The book is titled Creating the Future of Faculty Development: Learning from the Past, Understanding the Present (Anker Press, 2006). Austin also co-authored a chapter with alumna Benita Barnes (PhD 05) of the University of Massachusetts Amherst titled "Preparing doctoral students for faculty careers that contribute to the public good" in Higher Education for the Public Good: Emerging Voices from a National Movement (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

Professor Gail Burrill (Division of Mathematics and Science Education) has co-edited with Mike Camden (Statistics New Zealand) Curricular Development in Statistics Education: International Association for Statistical Education 2004 Roundtable (International Statistical Institute, 2005). The book is available online (www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase).

Associate Professor Mark Conley (TE) has co-authored with College of Education instructor Michael Kerner and J. Reynolds "Not a question of 'should' but a question of 'how:' Integrating literacy knowledge and practice into secondary teacher preparation through tutoring in urban middle schools" in Action in Teacher Education, 27(2), 22-32.

Assistant Professor Matt Diemer (CEPSE) has received a $20,000 grant from the American Educational Research Association to conduct a study titled "Pathways to occupational attainment among lower-SES Adolescents of Color: The role of sociopolitical development."

Assistant Professor Chandra Donnell (CEPSE) has been elected president of the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns (NAMRC).

Associate Professor Martha Ewing (KIN) has co-authored with doctoral student Todd Gilson Psychology of Coaching: Adult learning module for the MHSAA Coaching Advancement Program (MHSAA, 2005).

Chairperson Deborah Feltz (KIN) has co-authored with Castleton State College Professor Craig Payment (PhD 06) "Self-efficacy beliefs related to movement and mobility" in Quest, 57, 24-36. She also co-authored two book chapters: "Applying social psychology to sports teams" in Applied Social Psychology: Understanding and Addressing Social Problems (Sage, 2005) and "Psychological consulting with figure skaters" in Sport Psychology: Improving Performance in Different Sports (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).

Professor Susan Florio-Ruane (TE) has been elected president of the National Council on Research in Language and Literacy (NCRLL).

Professor Dan Gould (KIN), director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, was one of 17 athletes and sports administrators honored by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) with its 2005 Citizenship Through Sports Alliance Award.

Assistant Professor Mary Juzwik (TE) has been appointed to the Standing Committee on Research for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Associate Professor John Powell (KIN) and Professor Roger Haut of the College of Osteopathic Medicine have been awarded a $125,000 grant from the National Football League Charities to determine the biomechanical properties of the ankle at failure level loads using an experimental cadaver model of syndesmotic ankle sprains.

Professor Tenko Raykov (CEPSE) has published "Studying group and time invariance in maximal reliability for multiple-component measuring instruments via covariance structure modeling" in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 58, 301-317. He also co-authored with Spiridon Penev (University of New South Wales) "Estimation of multiple-component measuring instrument reliability in test-retest designs" in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 58, 285-299.

Professor Emeritus Sam Reuschlein (KIN) was inducted into the Burlington (Wis.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Assistant Professor Jon Star (CEPSE) has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences to conduct a study with co-principal investigator Bethany Rittle-Johnson (Vanderbilt University) titled "Using Contrasting Examples to Support Procedural Flexibility and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics." He also published "Reconceptualizing procedural knowledge" in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 36(5), 404-411.

In Memoriam

Professor Emeritus Calhoun C. Collier died on January 24, 2006. He was 89. Professor Collier was one of the first faculty members of the college, serving from 1956 until his retirement in 1981. His role included serving as chairperson of the Department of Elementary and Special Education, and was the author of Teaching in the Modern Elementary School (Macmillan, 1967).

Elizabeth Drobac died on November 2, 2005. She was 83. Mrs. Drobac was an outstanding athlete, selected 11 times as an All American in field hockey and lacrosse. She played with the United States teams in international competition. She taught in the public schools and at Cortland State Teachers College before accepting a teaching position at MSU in 1950. Her husband, Stan, was MSU's longtime tennis coach and also taught in the Department of Kinesiology.

Longtime Professor Jacquelyn Nickerson died on January 11, 2006. She was 75. Dr. Nickerson was among the first African Americans to attend Calvin College and received her Ph.D. in elementary education from MSU in 1980. She served on the faculty of the Department of Teacher Education from 1966 until her retirement in 1993. A gifted educator, she was honored by the College of Education Alumni Association with its Outstanding Faculty Award in 1989. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, who served in the College of Education as assistant dean for student affairs.

Margaret Lorimer Parsons died January 7, 2006. She was 92. Dr. Parsons joined MSU in 1956 after receiving her Ph.D. in higher education administration. Her long career was spent as a researcher and administrator in the Office of Institutional Research and teaching graduate-level courses in higher education in the College of Education. She would go on to serve as interim director Office of Institutional Research and retired in 1981. She also served as interim president of Missouri Valley College.

Blanche Simon died January 11, 2006. She was 92. Mrs. Simon joined the physical education faculty at Michigan State College in 1947 and would go on to teach and advise students for 43 years. She retired in 1983.

Teacher-Scholar Award

Assistant Professor Dorothea Anagnostopoulos (TE) was one of six professors from throughout the university selected to receive the Teacher-Scholar Award. The award is presented to faculty members who early in their careers have earned the respect of students and colleagues for their devotion to and skill in teaching and who have shown scholarly promise. In honoring her, the university noted that her "interests in education policy, urban youth, and the discourses around urban schools require an interdisciplinary approach that is refreshingly new, theoretically rich, and methodologically rigorous. She . . . is emerging as a leading scholar in education policy and the sociology of education."

Academic Staff Award

Academic specialist Gertrude ("Trudy") R. Sykes (TE) was honored with the Academic Staff Award. The award is presented to academic specialists and MSU Extension academic staff for extraordinary achievement, excellence, and exceptional contributions in advising, curriculum development, outreach, extension, research, and teaching. Sykes, who serves as the lead coordinator of the secondary teacher preparation program, was lauded for work with school district administrators, teachers, faculty, and teacher candidates. "Ms. Sykes embodies the land-grant mission of Michigan State University, communicating and upholding program standards and supporting both teacher candidates and practicing teachers in their growth as professionals."

Robert Floden Honored by AACTE

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's (AACTE) presented Professor Robert Floden its Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education in February.

In honoring him, AACTE noted that "He has influenced the way people think about central concepts such as teacher effectiveness, teachers' knowledge growth over time, and the relationships of research, practice and policy.

AACTE is a national voluntary association of higher education institutions and other organizations and is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality preparation and continuing professional development for teachers and school leaders in order to enhance PK-12 student learning. The almost 800 member institutions prepare more than two-thirds of the new teachers entering schools each year in the United States.
The award is sponsored by the AACTE Committee on Publications and the Journal of Teacher Education.

"Bob is one of the most respected scholars and intellectual leaders in the field of education across a range of areas from teacher learning and development to the relation between policy and actual classroom practice," Dean Carole Ames said. "Bob's work dating back to the Institute for Research on Teaching to his leadership of the National Center for Research on Teaching Learning to MSU's Teachers for a New Era today represents more than 20 years of remarkable insights into teaching and learning and distinguished service to the field."

Floden is the second College of Education faculty member to receive the award in as many years. Last year, Professor Mary Kennedy was honored with the award for her contributions to teacher education research.

In addition, a book for which Floden, professors Suzanne Wilson and Peter Youngs, and doctoral student Marco Meniketti wrote two chapters was honored with AACTE's Outstanding Publication Award. Floden and Meniketti wrote "Research on the Effects of Coursework in the Arts and Sciences" and Wilson and Youngs authored "Research on Accountability Processes in Teacher Education" in Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005).

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