Professor G. Michael Barnett works with students in his Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project. Photo: Lee Pellegrini
Associate Professor Karen Arnold and Jennifer May-Trifiletti 鈥�10 (Secondary Education), M.A. 鈥�11 (Higher Education), discuss the dynamics of college life for first-generation college students in a 亚色影库 News article. May-Trifiletti is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. The article includes Mitchell Strzepek, M.A. 鈥�20 (Higher Education), talking about his experience as a first-generation college student.
础谤苍辞濒诲鈥檚 on what happens to high school valedictorians after graduation was included in a on 鈥淲hat Straight-A Students Get Wrong.鈥�
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Professor G. Michael Barnett a grant of $1.52 million鈥攈is second NSF grant in six months鈥攖o support environmental science teachers as they guide their students through authentic science inquiry. Read more in 亚色影库 News 禄
Barnett, Professor Belle Liang, and Senior Research Associate Helen Zhang teamed up with the Watertown (Mass.) Children鈥檚 Theatre and received a two-year, $300,000 NSF grant to engage local middle school students鈥攑articularly those from populations underrepresented in STEM鈥� in science-learning theater experiences. Read more in 亚色影库 News听禄
Professor David Blustein received a 2018 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award from the American Psychological Association. Justin Perry, M.A. 鈥�01, Ph.D. 鈥�06 (Counseling Psychology), nominated Blustein for the award, which is given for motivating a former student to make a difference in his/her community. Perry is the Dean and Kauffman Endowed Chair at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Education.
Boisi Professor Henry Braun, Professor Larry Ludlow, and doctoral students Ella Anghel and Olivia Szendey (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) and other Boston College faculty received a Boston College Research Across Departments and Schools grant for the LAMP Measurement Project. They will study how to measure meaning and purpose and develop an instrument with the goal of helping institutions generate evidence regarding their students鈥� trajectories toward purposeful lives.
Assistant Professor Andr茅s Castro Samayoa was named a faculty fellow at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Castro Samayoa is also a senior research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education鈥檚 Center听for Minority Serving Institutions.
Marilyn Cochran-Smith was named on the 2018 the list of top scholars who help shape educational practice and policy.
The Association of International Education Administrators recognized Professor Hans de Wit with its 2019 for outstanding service to the field of international higher education. De Wit was also appointed for World Education Services in January. The non-profit organization is dedicated to helping international students and professionals achieve educational and professional goals in the US and Canada. At Boston College, de Wit serves as director of the Center for International Higher Education.
Tiffeni Fontno, head librarian at the Educational Resource Center, presented 鈥淟ibrarians, Pre- Service Teachers, and Public Schools: A Collaborative Approach to Creating OER K-12 Curriculum鈥� at the Open Education Southern Symposium at the University of Arkansas in October.
Anderson J. Franklin, the Lynch School鈥檚 Nelson Professional Chair, presented 鈥淐oalition Building for Collective Impact upon Caribbean Health and Wellness鈥� at the in Jamaica in November.
Assistant Professor Emily Gates co-authored 鈥淭he 2016 Tips from Former Smokers庐 Campaign: Associations With Quit Intentions and Quit Attempts Among Smokers With and Without Mental Health Conditions,鈥� an article in on the effectiveness of a national tobacco education campaign by the Centers for Disease Control, where she was an Office on Smoking and Health evaluation fellow.
Gates and Assistant Professor听Raquel Mu帽iz received a Boston College Research Incentive Grant for 鈥淓quitable Systems Change: Learning from Education and Health Cases,鈥� a project to develop practice-based evidence by examining how two education and health compensatory programs envision, enact, and evaluate equitable systems change.
Joan Wasser Gish, the Center for Optimized Student Support鈥檚 director of strategic initiatives, addressed student achievement and the successes of Boston College鈥檚 City Connects program in an essay for the
Professor Emeritus Andy Hargreaves was named number 19 on the 2018 the list of top scholars who help shape educational practice and policy. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Education University of Hong Kong in November and co-authored an opinion piece in on math competency among teachers in primary and elementary schools.
Augustus Long Professor Janet Helms will receive the 2019 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest from the Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest and the American Psychological Foundation. She will be recognized at the 2019 American Psychological Association conference in Chicago, in August.
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