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Foundations in Learning (FIL), the University of Iowa’s Department of Psychology and DeLTA Center, and the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) at Florida State University will collaborate to bring the science of reading to the classroom through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) and the U.S. Department of Education.
Carolyn Brown and Jerry Zimmermann, FIL’s founders and adjunct professors in the UI’s Department of Communication Science, announced the $150,000 Phase I award to develop and test a much needed tool to assess reading skills of struggling readers in middle school. The tool will help identify foundational deficits in the knowledge and skills of persistently struggling readers in middle schools across the country.
UI Department of Psychology and DeLTA Center faculty members Bob McMurray and Eliot Hazeltine also are involved with the project.
IES received more than 250 proposals for this round of SBIR awards. Brown and Zimmermann and their team were one of only 12 awarded.
Faculty—
Kathryn Chaloner, professor and head of biostatistics, has received the 2014 Elizabeth L. Scott Award, presented by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. A complete version of the announcement is available here.
The National Communication Association (NCA) has selected Isaac West, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, as the 2014 recipient of the NCA Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award.
West will be presented with the award during the 100th Annual Convention Nov. 21-23 in Chicago, Illinois.
Alumna—
Wendy Xu (BA, '10) is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Xu's debut collection, You Are Not Dead, was published in 2013 by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Hyperallergic, Gulf Coast, and Denver Quarterly.
For more information on Xu's award, see this story on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website.
Olivia Clare (MFA, '08) has been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. The award will be presented on Sept. 18 in New York City.
Carmelita Pickett, collection development officer at Texas A&M University Libraries, has been named associate university librarian for the University of Iowa, effective Oct. 13.
Pickett will succeed Edward Shreeves who had served as associate university librarian for nearly 25 years until his retirement in 2012. Michael Wright has served as interim associate university librarian since Shreeves’ retirement.
As associate university librarian, Pickett will be an integral part of the Libraries’ administrative team and provide leadership to a group of subject specialist librarians who represent every discipline at the University of Iowa. A complete version of the announcement is available here.
Faculty—
Jeong-yoon Jang (Ph.D. ’11), post-doctoral research and teaching associate at the University of Maine, and UI College of Education Science Education Professor Brian Hand received the Best poster presentation award at the 2014 Korea Association for Science Education conference. The poster is titled, "Tracking improvement of students’ critical thinking skills through an Argument-based inquiry approach."
Ibrahim Demir, assistant research faculty engineer at IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering and adjunct assistant professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering, attended the White House Innovation for Disaster Response and Recovery Demo Day on July 29, to share his work on flood information systems.
Demir's research focuses on hydroinformatics, environmental information systems, scientific visualization of geo-spatial data, user interface design, and information communication.
Alumna—
Jeong-yoon Jang (Ph.D. ’11) and UI College of Education Science Education Professor Brian Hand received the Best poster presentation award at the 2014 Korea Association for Science Education conference. The poster is titled, "Tracking improvement of students’ critical thinking skills through an Argument-based inquiry approach."
Faculty—
Educational Measurement and Statistics professor Michael Kolen has a new book recently published, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.
Educational Measurement and Statistics Professor Emeritus David Frisbie was also involved with the book…representing NCME on Management Committee.
Reborn Again, by Leslie Margolin, professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been accepted for publication by Second Wind Publishing.
Charles F. Williams, visiting lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, reviewed the book, Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom by Luc Herman and Steven Weisenberger, University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Mary Trachsel, associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was the guest editor for the summer issue of the Journal of Critical Animal Studies.
Ye, S-Y; Gurnett, DA; Kurth, WS; Averkamp, TF; Morooka, M; Sakai, S; Wahlund, J-E: an article, "Electron Density Inside Enceladus Plume Inferred from Plasma Oscillations Excited by Dust Impacts." Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 119, pp. 3373-3380, doi:10.1002/2014JA019861, May 7, 2014.
Menietti, JD; Hospodarsky, GB; Shprits, Y; Gurnett, DA: an article,"Saturn Chorus Intensity Variations." Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 119, pp. 4656-4667, doi:10.1002/2014JA019914, June 4, 2014.
Dieval, C; Morgan, DD; Nemec, F; Gurnett, DA: an article, "MARSIS Observations of the Martian Nightside Ionosphere Dependence on Solar Wind Conditions." Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 119, pp. 4077-4093, doi:10.1002/2014JA019788, May 27, 2014.
Duru, F; Gurnett, DA; Morgan, DD; Lundin, R;Duru, I;Winningham, D; Frahm, R; an article,"Dayside Episodic Ion Outflow from Martian Magnetic Cusps and/or Magnetosheath Boundary Motion Associated with Plasma Oscillations."Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 41, pp. 3344-3350, doi:10.1002/2014GL059954, May 29, 2014.
Morgan, DD; Dieval, C; Gurnett, DA; Duru, F; Dubinin, F; Fraenz, F; Andrews, DJ; Opgenoorth, H; Ulusen, D; Mitrofanov, I; Plaut, J; an article, "Effects of a Strong ICME on the Martian Ionosphere as Detected by Mars Express and Mars Odyssey. "Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 119, pp. 5891-5908, doi:10.1002/2013JA019522, July 22.
Staff—
Jeri King, assistant to the associate vice president for UI Facilities Management, recently edited a book for the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers entitled, Effective and Innovative Practices for the Strategic Facilities Manager. The association, whose acronym is APPA, is the professional organization of facilities management professionals.