Janae Dimick, Nicol Howard, and Christopher Lewis, all Ph.D. students in the 2011 cohort, will be presenting at the 2012 International Diversity Conference this June. The conference will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the study of diversity today. Janae
The Counseling and School Psychology faculty along with five doctoral students and ten Ed.S. students will be presenting at the California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) spring conference from March 21st to the 23rd. Two of our own Doctoral student, Stephanie Domzalski and Courtney Matz, are co-chairs of the conference. With faculty, the CSP group accounts for 14 workshops, papers and posters. Way
In May, students and faculty from Chapman University’s Athletic Training Education Program will travel to Taiwan for a three week study abroad course in sports medicine. In conjunction with the National Taiwan Sport University, ATEP students will participate in traditional Chinese medicine workshops on acupuncture, Tui Na therapy, and herbal medicine. They will also perform
Drs. Michael Hass and Kelly Kennedy recently came back from the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) in Philadelphia. The meeting was attended by over 6,000 school psychologist from around the country and the world. Not only did 25 of our School Psychology students attend – a record number – but 8 Ed.S. and 3 doctoral students
This past weekend, Brian Alters became President of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). The President for the past 18 years was Kevin Padian, Professor of paleontology at U.C. Berkeley. NCSE is frequently in the middle of heated national controversy. With the addition of the teaching of climate change to
The CES’s very own Dr. Judy Montgomery is working with President Jim Doti and Lisa Mertins on their blog about their new children’s book endeavor. President Doti will write the story and Lisa will illustrate it. They collaborated on their first children’s book, A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy in 2010. It is the story of little
The CES’s very own Dr. Alters has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) This is a very prestigious honor and the CES sends our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Alters for all his achievements and this wonderful honor! For more on this wonderful award please visit the Happenings article.
On January 7, 2012, at one of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional associations of its kind, Dr. Brian Alters, College of Educational Studies and the Schmid College of Science and Technology, gave the closing plenary lecture to the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) which was formed in 1902. Dr. Alters delivered
Our very own Dr. Brian Alters was quoted in two separate articles this past week! One in the Los Angeles Times titled Biology test omits creation theory, complains Kentucky educator and then in an article from Orange Coast College about the retirement of one of Dr. Alter’s mentors, Dr. Tom Garrison.
Three Ph.D. students, Janae Dimick, Darla Hagge, and Nicol Howard recently received Faculty-Sponsored Student Scholarly/Creative Research grants. The grants will be used to present their research at professional conferences. Janae’s research topic, sponsored by Dr. Anna Wilson, is Battling for the Dream: Best Practices to Improve Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Students Residing in