coe-staff: COE Good News

[Mia Tuan]

Dear COE Colleagues,

Very good news to share on numerous fronts. A number of outstanding COE community members have distinguished themselves in recent weeks and congratulations are in order.

First, great news about faculty promotions, effective September 2014:

  *   Gina Biancarosa (EMPL) has been promoted to associate professor with tenure.
  *   Charles Martinez (EMPL) has been promoted to full professor.
  *   Christopher Murray (SPECS) has been promoted to full professor.
  *   Lauren Lindstrom (Associate Dean for Research and Academics) has been promoted to full professor.
For more details visit The Loop<https://coe.uoregon.edu/coe-news/2014/05/02/faculty-promotions-for-spring-2014/>.

Second, As some of you know, several COE researchers have been waiting on official word regarding IES grants. That word has come from the office of Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, and so I am extremely proud to announce the following grants:

  *   Beth Stormshak, Laura Lee McIntyre and Andy Garbacz (SPECS) have been awarded a $3.5M grant to evaluate the efficacy of implementing the Family Check-Up (FCU), a school-based, ecological approach to family intervention, during the transition into elementary school.
  *   Jeff Sprague, Claudia Vincent (IVDB) and CHiXapkaid (EDST) have received a $1.5M grant to explore the relationship between school personnel's use of Native Language and Culture in discipline and instruction and behavioral and academic outcomes for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students.
  *   Joseph Nese (BRT) and Aki Kamata were awarded $1.2M to develop and validate a new computerized assessment system of oral reading fluency, called Computerized Oral Reading Evaluation (CORE).
  *   Gina Biancarosa and Sarah Carlson (CTL) were awarded $1.2M to to refine and validate a measure of individual differences in reading comprehension processes. The outcome of the study will be a practical, reliable, and valid measure of reading-comprehension processes that offers diagnostic information on struggling readers that can be used easily in schools.
Third, Education Studies doctoral student, Leilani Sabzalian, has been awarded a 2014 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. The Spencer fellowships are highly competitive and among the most prestigious in the field of education. Only 30 awards were made from a pool of more than 400 international applicants. The review panel is made up of leading education scholars around the world. As her award letter states "this award is a strong expression of the organizations' confidence in your potential contribution to the history, theory, or practice of education."

Please join me in congratulating our esteemed colleagues on their recent accomplishments!

Best wishes,
Mia


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