Crowell

University of Georgia College of Education graduate student Candice Crowell has received the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Psychological Association (APA).

Crowell, of Atlanta, is a third-year doctoral student in counseling psychology whose research focuses on African-American male sexuality education. Her dissertation will qualitatively investigate sexual health among heterosexual black men of Caribbean descent.

Crowell’s advisor, Edward Delgado-Romero, a professor in the department of counseling and human development services, will serve as her mentor in this APA Minority Fellowship Program.The fellowship includes funding that covers her tuition, as well as a stipend of $22,000 for the academic year. It also provides funding to attend the 2013 APA Convention July 31-Aug. 4 in Honolulu, Hi., where she will participate in professional development workshops and present a research poster.

Crowell received her M.S. in professional counseling and M.Ed. in English education, both from Georgia State University and her B.A. in English from Spelman College.

Scott

University of Georgia College of Education graduate student Ciera Scott received the 2013 Mary Frances Early Award at the 13^th annual Mary Frances Early Lecture on April 2.

The lecture honors Mary Frances Early, the first African American to earn a degree from UGA, and her legacy at the university. The award is presented to a student at the lecture and recognizes their accomplishments at UGA.

Scott is a first-year doctoral student in the counseling psychology program at UGA.  She received her bachelor of arts degree in psychology with a Spanish minor from Mercer University in Macon in 2008. She then earned her masters of science degree in clinical mental health counseling from Mercer University in Atlanta in 2012.

Scott expects to graduate from her doctoral program in May 2016. Her research interests include depression and childhood trauma in minority women. After earning her doctorate, Scott plans to continue conducting research on childhood trauma in ethnic minority women, pursue a clinical career in a community mental health center conducting group therapy, and write books about her research.

The annual lecture recognizes Mary Frances Early’s dedication toward making UGA an institution of higher learning for all people. The lecture and award demonstrate the progress that has been made in achieving her vision as well as to identify the work that remains to be done.

The Mary Frances Early Lecture and Mary Frances Early Award is sponsored by the UGA Graduate School, Graduate and Professional Scholars and the Office of Institutional Diversity.

Fox

“Researching and living paradoxical knowledges: Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches.”

Fox teaches courses on the human-nature relationship, leisure and community development, environmental education and ethics.

She has engaged in numerous studies with Central American immigrants and refugees, native Hawaiians, and urban Aboriginal hip hop artists in an attempt to rethink the leisure experience, believing that these cultures engage in performative practices that integrate leisure more holistically than the dominant Western views of leisure.

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A reception will immediately follow the presentation.

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Bazelon

Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, will speak at the Safe and Welcoming Schools Conference hosted by the University of Georgia College of Education at UGA Gwinnett on Friday, March 1.

Bazelon, who is also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale University Law School, has been recently featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Colbert Report and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Before joining Slate, she worked as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Each conference participant will receive a copy of her book.

The conference will feature UGA researchers and practitioners from the fields of education, counseling, law and public health who will provide information on using a wealth of resources that include websites, videos, books and surveys.  Presentations will be interactive, with hands-on demonstrations of how to use each resource. Participants will receive a compendium of the highlighted resources to assist in their own bullying prevention and intervention efforts.

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Fox

Karen Fox, an expert in indigenous perspectives on leisure, will speak on “Researching and living paradoxical knowledges: Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches,” on Thursday, March 7 at the University of Georgia College of Education.

Fox, a professor of leisure studies at the University of Alberta in Canada, will speak from 4-5 p.m. in Room G-5, Aderhold Hall, as part of the Ramsey Lecture Series. A reception will immediately follow the presentation.

Fox teaches courses on the human-nature relationship, leisure and community development, environmental education and ethics.

She has engaged in numerous studies with Central American immigrants and refugees, native Hawaiians, and urban Aboriginal hip hop artists in an attempt to rethink the leisure experience, believing that these cultures engage in performative practices that integrate leisure more holistically than the dominant Western views of leisure. This has led to her current interest in embodiment and the challenge to engage in leisure experiences more deeply.

In this presentation, she rethinks theories about leisure from indigenous and yogic perspectives. She is interested in decentering dominant conceptions of leisure through holistic, arts-based and ecological understandings of the world.

Fox is an elected fellow in the Academy of Leisure Studies, an honorary association that acknowledges scholars who have demonstrated excellence throughout an extended career in leisure studies.

The event is sponsored by the recreation and leisure studies program in the department of counseling and human development services.

Bazelon

Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, will speak at the Safe and Welcoming Schools Conference hosted by the University of Georgia College of Education at UGA Gwinnett on Friday, March 1.

Bazelon, who is also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale University Law School, has been recently featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Colbert Report and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Before joining Slate, she worked as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Each conference participant will receive a copy of her book.

The one-day conference is designed to help education administrators, counselors and teachers use free and low-cost resources to prevent childhood bullying. UGA researchers and practitioners from the fields of education, counseling, law and public health will provide information on using a wealth of resources, including websites, videos, books and surveys. Presentations will be interactive, with hands-on demonstrations of how to use these resources. Participants will receive a compendium of the highlighted resources to assist in their own bullying prevention and intervention efforts.

Speakers will include the following UGA faculty:

• Andy Horne, dean emeritus, College of Education
• Pamela Orpinas, professor, department of health promotion & behavior, College of Public Health
• John Dayton, professor, lifelong education, administration & policy, College of Education
• Corey Johnson, associate professor, department of counseling & human development, College of Education
• Anneliese Singh, assistant professor, department of counseling & human development, College of Education
• Kat Raczynski, director, safe and welcoming schools project, College of Education

The registration cost is $149 which includes conference materials, lunch, two refreshment breaks and a copy of Bazelon’s book. Deadline for registration is February 26. For more details and online registration, visit:
www.coe.uga.edu/events/

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Singh

Anneliese Singh, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services at the University Of Georgia College Of Education, has been appointed associate editor of the international section of The Journal of Counseling and Development.

A peer-reviewed academic publication of the American Counseling Association (ACA), The Journal of Counseling & Development publishes empirical research in areas such as counseling activities, career development and vocational psychology, and diversity and underrepresented populations in relation to counseling activities. Her appointment is for three years.

Singh is currently serving as president of the Southern Association of Counselor Education and Supervision through June 2013. She will serve as past-president through June 2014.

She received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Education at the university’s Honors Day in 2012 and the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 44 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Minority Issues award. She also received the Group Work Practice Award – Early Career from the Association of Specialists in Group Work, a division of the ACA in 2011.

Singh conducts participatory research and interventions in middle school aimed at reducing anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) bullying and violence.

She joined the UGA faculty in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Georgia State University.

Pendleton

Megan Pendleton, a student in the College Student Affairs Administration program in the College of Education’s Department of Counseling and Human Development won an online audition of her poetry/spoken word piece to be the opener for  poet Maya Angelou who spoke at the UGA Chapel on February 5.

Pendleton won the honor by being the student who gained the most “Likes” on the Week of Soul Facebook page.

See the video of her demo.