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Dr. Bonnie Cramond received the E. Paul Torrance Creativity Award from the Creativity Network of the National Association for Gifted Children at their annual conference in St. Louis last week. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge and reward significant contributions of individuals and groups whose work facilitates the enhancement and spread of creativity, especially among gifted children. Past recipients of this award include Bill Moyers, Teresa Amabile, Mark Runco, Mary Frasier, and Robert Sternberg. Congratulations!

Dr. Neuharth-Pritchett Named President-elect. Dr. Neuharth-Pritchett was recently elected as the President-elect of the Georgia Association on Young Children. Congratulations!

Dr. Mike Orey received a USDA grant from the Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Plant Breeding and Education Program. The title of the grant is: Translational Genomic Approaches for Enhancing Disease Resistance in Plants, an Internet-Facilitated Education Program for Training Plant Breeders. The AFRI grant includes a 20-hour Graduate Assistantship (GA) for the next 3 years to work on a Wiki Book on Plant Breeding and some online educational materials designed to help recruit students to the Plant Breeding program. Congratulations!

Dr. Nancy Knapp has been appointed to the position of Associate Head for the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology (EPIT).

The University of Georgia has approved the promotion of the following professors for the EPIT department: Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett to Full Professor and Ikseon Choi to Associate Professor.

Mike Hannafin has been elected as the new Research Editor for Educational Technology Research and Development effective July 1 2009. Congratulations, Mike!

The College of Education Faculty Senate Awards Committee has selected Dr. Martha Carr as the winner of the 2009 Aderhold Distinguished Professor Award.  Congratulations Dr. Carr!

Al Cohen Named EPEC Interim Director
Dr. Allan Cohen, faculty member in the Department of Educational Psychology and director of the Educational Research Laboratory at the Georgia Center for Assessment, has been named interim director of the Education Policy and Evaluation Center. Dr. Cohen came to UGA in 2003, following a 24-year tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he served as director of the UW-System Center for Placement Testing and director of the Office of Testing and Evaluation Services.

Dr. Cohen is a widely respected expert in the field of educational psychology and measurement, and his work currently focuses on examining methodological issues in educational measurement primarily with respect to applications in test development. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Purdue University, and Pennsylvania State University prior to joining the faculty at UGA

Colleagues Pay Tribute to Gifted Education Pioneer Mary M. Frasier
Mary Frasier earned national recognition for her work in identifying and teaching students who are under-represented in gifted education programs.

The educational psychology faculty of the University of Georgia have been ranked 8th in the U.S. in productivity based on a survey of published articles in major educational psychology journals over the past five years. The survey, which examined publications by faculty at 342 institutions, appeared in the July 2003 issue of the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology. The national ranking of 8th represents a move up from a ranking of 10th in an earlier survey.

 

Students


EPIT Student Wins AERA Award. Gita Taasoobshirazi is the winner of the AERA Division C 2009 Graduate Student Award. Congratulations!

EPIT Student Receives APA Awards. Katherine Raczynski, a doctoral student in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (REMS) program, received the Society of Counseling Psychology Prevention section’s Graduate Student Prevention Research Award and Research Proposal Award at the recent American Psychological Association convention last month in Toronto, Canada. The awards recognize outstanding research by a graduate student and provide funds to pursue her research in the future. Katherine has directed the GREAT Schools and Families Project, served as an interventionist with the school violence reduction program, supervised bully prevention projects and is currently the project director for the Healthy Teens Project in UGA’s College of Public Health. Congratulations!

AERA Division I Established Investigator Award
Brian Hess, a PhD graduate of the REMS program, was the recipient of the AERA Division I Established Investigator Award for the paper, A Methodology for Setting Performance Standards for Physicians in Clinical Practice, along with his colleagues, Rebecca Lipner and Weifeng Weng, presented in April, 2009 in San Diego.

EPIT Students Win Awards.  Matthew Lovelace and Donald Markle received the University's Outstanding Teaching Award.  Congratulation!

 

 

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Congratulations to the School Library Media program. This year, five school media center programs were named as Exemplary in the state – a high honor, certainly. Two of our alumni are among those honored media specialists: Cindy Brooks, Harbins Elementary (Gwinnett) Adria Gravely Whitworth, Norcross High (Gwinnett).

 

 
 
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