Grants and Awards
Daniel C. Edelson, Toyota USA Foundation, WorldWatcher Project ($260,000); DuPont Corporation, WorldWatcher Project ($10,000).
Louis M. Gomez, MacArthur Foundation, Stanford University, "MacArthur Technology Initiative: Research Network on Teaching and Learning" ($126,054).
G. Alfred Hess Jr., Renaissance Learning Inc., "Evaluating the Renaissance Learning Program at Revere Elementary School" ($49,500).
David E. Kanter, National Science Foundation, "Developing teacher leaders in science: Profession development for the 'I, Bio' Curriculum" ($49,937).
Dan A. Lewis, Joyce Foundation, Illinois Families Study ($250,000).
Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Malone Foundation, Civic Education Project ($70,000); Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Young Scholars Program ($190,259).
Brian J. Reiser and Daniel C. Edelson, National Science Foundation, Center for Curriculum Materials in Science ($2.5 million).
James E. Rosenbaum, Spencer Foundation, "Mechanisms for improving labor market entry of disadvantaged students in community colleges" ($400,000).
Miriam Gamoran Sherin, Kappa Delta Pi/AERA Division K Award for early career achievements in research on teaching and teacher education.
James P. Spillane, Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar Award from the New Zealand Fulbright Committee for a lecture tour in New Zealand on distributed leadership. Spillane will be a visiting scholar at the National College of School Leadership in England in June.
Honors and Appointments
Greg J. Duncan was honored by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "Highly Cited Researcher."
James E. Rosenbaum has been appointed by Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, to a task force to advise him on policies to improve students' post secondary careers. He spoke to Chicago Mayor Daley's staff on "Education and workforce issues" and to the U.S. Congress on special education.
Publications and Presentations
Emma K. Adam, "Cortisol activity in the everyday lives of working parents," B. Schneider and L. Waite (Eds.), Families Working: Time Apart, Time Together (2002); Adam and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, "Home sweet home(s): Parental separations, residential moves and adjustment in low-income adolescent girls," Developmental Psychology (2002).
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, "Welfare, children and families: A three-city study," Science, March 7. Results of the $20 million study suggests that at least in the short run and during good economic times, children in low-income families are not harmed, on average, when their mothers leave welfare or move into the workforce. The study also reports some evidence that mothers' entry into the labor force was related to improvements in adolescents' mental health, while exists from employment were linked with teenagers' increased behavior problems. In other words, the basic thrust of welfare reform-requiring mothers to make the transition from welfare to work-may not be as harmful to children as many people feared when the legislation was passed in 1996, and may even be beneficial to teenagers' mental health.
Greg J. Duncan, "Welfare reform and children," presentation at Evanston Township High School.
Dan A. Lewis, policy briefings: "Mental health and welfare reform: What facilitates employment among those with depression?" and "Putting food on the table after welfare reform: What protects families from food insecurity?"
Miriam Gamoran Sherin, "A balancing act: Developing a discourse community in a mathematics classroom," Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (2002).
James P. Spillane, Brian Reiser, and Todd Reimer, "Policy implementation and cognition: Reframing and refocusing implementation research," Review of Educational Research (2002); Spillane, John Diamond, et al, "Managing in the middle: School leaders and the enactment of accountability policy,"Educational Policy (November 2002).
Transitions
Gunhild Hagestad, an award-winning researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on generational, family and life course issues, retired in December. The associate professor of human development and social policy and of sociology joined the Northwestestern University faculty in 1987 and maintained a part-time affiliation at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, where she hosted a summer Field Studies program for Northwestern students in 2001.
Hagestad received a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging and a Distinctive Creative Achievement Award from the Gerontological Society of America, where she was made a fellow in 1995.