February 8th, 2012, 10:02
Robert A. Garda Jr., an expert in education law from Loyola University in New Orleans,discussed his recent publication, “The White Interest in School Integration,” in a seminar at the University of Georgia College of Education on Friday, Feb. 3. A video of his lecture is now available online on the COE You Tube Channel.
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September 20th, 2011, 11:09
Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, gave the 2011 Fall COE Invited Lecture at the Fall Faculty Meeting on Sept 14 at the Georgia Museum of Art. You can now see his lecture titled, “Education Schools in an Era of Profound Change.” online.
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August 4th, 2011, 10:08
A University of Georgia study led by Mike Ferrara, a professor of exercise science and head of UGA’s athletic training education program, involving athletes at 25 Georgia high schools could define when risks rise for heat-related deaths and injuries when it’s completed next year, reports Atlanta’s WXIA-TV (11 Alive) on August 3.
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August 3rd, 2011, 10:08
A freshly minted University of Georgia College of Education Ph.D. graduate won more than $18,000 during a two-night run on the television quiz show “Jeopardy!” July 26 and 27. Video link inside: Fox on making the Winner’s Circle.
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June 27th, 2011, 08:06
The University of Georgia Study Abroad program in Russia, led by COE faculty member Gwynn Powell, in which students serve as counselors in summer youth camps in the Mari-El Republic, was featured recently on El-Mari News television broadcasts.
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May 11th, 2011, 12:05
Getting in better shape can make a healthy pregnant woman even healthier. And a new study indicates low to moderate intensity weight training can help. Patrick O’Connor, a University of Georgia exercise science researcher, saw it in a study of 32 women who took up weight training, reports the HHS HealthBeat, an audio production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on May 10 titled, “Making Moms-To-Be Stronger.” The podcasts air on radio and posted on websites across the country.
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May 10th, 2011, 12:05
Georgia is among several states declining to participate in a survey on teacher education quality being conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality in cooperation with U.S. News & World Report. University System Vice Chancellor Lynne Weisenbach is quoted in a May 10 NPR story. (You can also listen to the story in the Morning Edition [...]
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April 11th, 2011, 08:04
Garry Hoban, an associate professor in education from the University of Wollongong in Australia who was a visiting speaker in the COE last week, stopped by OIT studios for an interview about his award-winning SLOWMATION programs. See the interview on either the UGA YouTube page or the COE Lecture Series podcast channel.
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March 28th, 2011, 09:03
One of the nation’s top researchers in cognitive neuroscience, Mark Beeman of Northwestern University, discussed the spark that results in sudden human insight in the 2011 E. Paul Torrance Lecture on March 24 at the University of Georgia. The lecture titled, “Insight in the Brain – The Cognitive and Neural Bases of ‘Eureka!’ Moments,” can be viewed on the COE Lecture Series Podcast channel or on the UGA channel on YouTube.
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March 20th, 2011, 10:03
Brian Bordainick‘s (AB/BSED ’07) efforts to bring hope and dignity back to New Orleans’ 9th Ward which involved becoming a Teach for America participant then helping to raise funds to build a new football stadium for Carver High School, reports a feature article in the March 2011 issue of Georgia Magazine.
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