Last week’s public presentations by the two final candidates for director, Center for Teaching and Learning, are available for online viewing at the links provided below. The two candidates are Debra Charlesworth, assistant to the dean, Graduate School; and Michael Meyer, senior lecturer, Physics.
This Friday, June 1, is the last application deadline for the 2012 Michigan Tech University Five-Day Summer Teacher Institutes in June, July and August 2012.
On Wednesday, May 9, faculty, staff members and guests gathered at the Rozsa Center for an awards dinner recognizing employees who have 25, 30, 35, and 40 years of service to the University, as well as retirees. Certification Officer Judy Anderson was recognized for 30 years of service.
The Scientific World Journal published an article on the research of Assistant Professor Edward Cokely (CLS) and colleagues on risk literacy, specifically as it regards health. The article is entitled “Using Visual Aids to Improve Communication of Risks about Health: A Review.”
Assistant Professor Ed Cokely’s research on risk literacy was featured in the Salzburger Nachrichten, the daily newspaper of Salzburg, Austria, on April 27. Also, two online publications, Artikelmagazin and lehrer-online, have published stories on Cokely and his work at the Max Planck Institute.
Among the notable accomplishments over the year was the designation as the No. 1 Peace Corps Masters International Program in the nation for the seventh consecutive year. Shari Stockero was promoted from assistant professor without tenure to associate professor with tenure. Paul Ward was promoted from associate professor without tenure to associate professor with tenure.
After 16 years of service, William Kennedy will step down as the director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development in May. He returns to the faculty in Cognitive and Learning Sciences.
The Houghton-Portage Township Schools Board of Education recognized Brad Baltensperger for winning the Michigan Association of School Board (MASB) President’s Award of Recognition. The Board Member Awards Program, with basic certification as its cornerstone, was developed in 1990 with input from both veteran Michigan school board members and representatives from higher education and state administrator organizations. Level 7 is the President’s Award of Recognition.
The vice president for research is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Research Excellence Fund Awards, which total $515,000. Recipients in CLS include:
Scholarship and Creativity Grant
Kedmon Hungwe
Mentoring Grant
Ranjana Mehta
Research Seed Grant
Ranjana Mehta
Assistant Professor Edward Cokely (CLI) has received the Raymond S. Nickerson Best Paper Award, sponsored by the American Psychological Association Division 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology). Cokely and a colleague’s paper, “Effective Communication of Risks to Young Adults: Using Message Framing and Visual Aids to Increase Condom Use and STD Screening,” appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Vol. 17, No. 3, 270–287 (2011).
