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Faculty/Student
Research Collaboration Grants
This
section, a new addition to Transitions, is designed to
keep us all informed of COEHS faculty and staff activities.
Department Chairs will send out a call for items to be included each
month, so please share information about your recent activities so
we can include them.
This month
we are featuring faculty/student research grants supported by the
University’s Differential Tuition Grant Program and Small Research
Projects’ Grants that are being actively pursued during this
academic year.
Communication
Sciences and
Disorders
Linda
Carpenter
"Performance Equivalencies Across Two Measures of
Phonology"
Lisa La
Salle
"Use of a Weighting System to Improve Recommendations
for
Children Who
Stutter"
Kris
Retherford and Kay Hagedorn
with Todd
Stephens
(SPED)
"A Comparison of Language Production,
Language,
Comprehension and Cognitive Functioning in Identical
Twins
with Williams
Syndrome"
Kris
Retherford
"Linguistic Forms Critical for Academic Success in Pre-School-Aged
Hmong Children"
Diversity Mentoring Project
Larry
Solberg
"Acoustic Analysis of Resonant vs. Pressed
Voice"
Curriculum
and Instruction
Bob
Hollon
"Community Case Studies in Collaborative
Leadership"
Maureen
Mack
"New Age
Schooling"
Ken
Schmidt
"Professional Learning Communities: Are They Are Used Locally and
How is Their Effectiveness
Measured?”
Robin
Umber
"Reading Partners: Building Success for English Language
Learners"
Foundations
of Education
Cynthia
Gray
"Exploring Teen Pregnancy Through a Documentary Case
Study"
Kinesiology
Lance
Dalleck
"Identifying the Optimal Energy Expenditure Requirements of
Healthy
Adult Females"
Social
Work
Ardyth
Duhtshek-Krause
"Social Work Services for Persons with Mental Health Disabilities:
A
Consumer Perspective--Part II"
Special
Education
Vicki
Snider
"Effects of Corrective Reading-Decoding for High School Students
with
Learning Disabilities"
Todd
Stephens with Kay Hagedorn and Kris Retherford
(CSD)
"A Comparison of Language Production,
Language,
Comprehension and Cognitive Functioning in Identical
Twins
with Williams
Syndrome"
Welcome
Mary Beth Kelley-Lowe
Mary Beth
Kelley-Lowe was recently named the new grant development specialist,
a position shared with the Eau Claire Area School District and the
College of Education and Human Sciences. Dr. Kelley-Lowe earned a
Ph.D. from the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University
of North Dakota in 2004 and holds an M.S. in Museum Education from
the University of Iowa and an B.A. in Environmental, Population, and
Organism Biology from the University of Colorado. She brings
excellent professional experience in writing and managing grants.
Her office is in HSS 169.
UW
System PK-16
Teacher Quality Initiative Grant
Bob Hollon
has secured a $58,913 UW System grant, “Preparing Collaborative
Leaders at UWEC: A Community Responsibility,” for 2006-2007. He is
recruiting faculty members to participate on teams of four that
include one COEHS faculty member, a faculty member from a content
area, one field-based professional, and one student to engage with a
consultant on collaborative leadership at a four-day summer
institute in June with continued activities extending into the
academic year. Participants will receive a stipend. This is an
outstanding opportunity for cross-departmental collaboration that
links directly to the COEHS mission and vision.
Faculty
College
Participants
Deb Pattee
and Robin Umber, C&I, have been selected as two of the four
faculty members from UW-Eau Claire to attend UW System’s Faculty
College 2006 at UW-Richland May 30-June 2.
Upcoming
Events
Please
mark your calendar for the following events!
College
Scholarships and Awards Celebration and Reception
– Wed., April 26, 4:00-5:30 p.m. , Tamarack
University
Research Day-Mon.& Tues., May 1&2 Council Fire
COEHS
College Meeting
and Luncheon Honoring Retirees-Fri., May 5, noon-2:30 p.m. Library
2023 A/B
Student
Research Expo, FED385 Social Foundations of Human Relations and
SW405 Ethnic-sensitive Social Work Practice- Thurs., May 11, 4:00-5:15 p.m., Couuncil
Fire
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the final gasps of the spring
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