Kamphaus Receives 2003 Yeany Research Award Four Others Recognized in College Faculty Awards   Randy Kamphaus, who co-developed a  testing and assessment instrument now used around the world to help educators address effective child learning and behavior, has been named recipient of the College’s 2003 Russell H. Yeany, Jr. Research Award. Kamphaus, a professor and head of educational psychology, spent seven years (1985-92) developing the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC) with his frequent collaborator, UGA alumnus Cecil R. Reynolds, now a professor at Texas A&M University. The BASC has become one of the dominant psychological testing systems used for the diagnosis and classification of child and adolescent behavioral and emotional problems in the United States. The BASC has brought considerable notoriety to the university. Components of the BASC are used with thousands of children each day by clinicians in hospitals, private and public schools and Department of Defense schools in Europe. Kamphaus has personally trained pediatric and psychology staffs in its use at the Yale Child Study Center and the National Naval Medical  Center in Bethesda, Md. The BASC is widely used by most major school districts in the U.S. including those in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston. It is also used in Fulton, Gwinnett and Clarke counties in Georgia. The instrument has also been used in Germany, New Zealand, Australia and England. Not only did the BASC effectively challenge previously accepted standards in the field, it also extended the field by adding behavioral competencies in areas such as social, leadership and study skills. Kamphaus also contributed to the development of other assessment instruments including the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) and has authored or co-authored several texts that have become standards for academics and practitioners in school psychology, psychological evaluation and tests/measurement training.     He has served as principal investigator, co-investigator or consultant on several federally funded research projects dealing with early intervention and prevention, child classification methods, prevalence of ADHD and Conduct Disorder in Latin America, and violence prevention in schools. Kamphaus also helped develop A.C.T. Early: Advancing the Competencies of Teachers for Early Behavioral Interventions of At-Risk Children, a project focused on reducing bullying and violence in schools which has been supported by $10 million in U.S. Department of Education grants over the last several years. Kamphaus, who received his Ph.D. in educational psychology at UGA, joined the faculty here in 1984. He got his master’s in general psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield and his bachelor’s in psychology at Quincy University in Quincy, IL. The Russell H. Yeany, Jr. Research Award was established in 1998 to recognize outstanding cumulative research and is made possible by a gift from Russell H. Yeany, Jr., dean emeritus of the College. The recipient of the award receives a plaque, a one-time cash award of $1,000, and a $2,000 grant for professional development.       In other College of Education faculty awards for the 2002-03 academic year:     * Juanita Johnson-Bailey received the 2003 Glickman Faculty Fellow Award.     Johnson-Bailey has established an impressive national reputation on issues of race and gender in education through dissemination of her research through books and journals since 1994.     Her critically acclaimed book, Sistahs in College: Making a Way out of No Way, received the 2002 Frandson Award from the University Continuing Education Association, the highest acknowledgment for scholarship in the field.     Johnson-Bailey has developed several innovative courses including Race and Gender in the Workplace for the graduate program in adult education and its undergraduate counterpart, Diversity and Globalization in the Workplace. As a core member of the Women’s Studies faculty, she created the undergraduate course, Multicultural Perspectives on Women’s Lives.     Her teaching excellence was recognized by her 1998 selection for a Lily Teaching Fellowship.     The Glickman Faculty Fellow Award was established in 1997 to recognize distinguished accomplishments and potential for future contributions of faculty through teaching, research and service. The recipient receives a plaque, a cash award of $1,000 and a $2,000 grant for professional development. The recipient is also named College of Education Faculty Fellow and retains the tile for one year. The award was named in honor of Carl Glickman, professor emeritus of social foundations.     * Joe Wisenbaker, an associate professor in educational psychology and director of the Academic Computing Center, received the COE Award for Teaching Excellence.     * Nancy Knapp, an associate professor in educational psychology, received the COE Outstanding Teaching Award for the University’s Honors Day.     * Rose Chepyator-Thomson, associate professor of physical education and sports studies, received the Faculty Senate D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence. Tuesday, April 8, 2003 WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu CONTACT: Lisa Vander Kooi, 706/542-3865, lvanderk@coe.uga.edu