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Adjunct Instructors Draw on Career Experiences

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		David Rapp joins the faculty in SESP and in psychology. Rapp, whose research interests center on the processes of multimedia comprehension, has a PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook and has been assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota.

		Michelle Reininger is assistant professor of education policy and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Reininger earned a doctorate in the economics of education at Stanford University.

		Cells to Society director P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, "A Developmental Infrastructure Award for Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research" ($1,132,125).

		Daniel Edelson, Chicago Public Schools, "Meaningful Science: Preparing Chicago's High School Students for Their Future" ($1,304,200); BP Leaders Awards, "Environmental Investigation: My World GIS and Road Salt" ($50,000).

		Barton Hirsch, Searle Fund, "Preparing Young People for Responsible Adulthood: An Evaluation of After School Matters" ($100,000).

		John Kretzmann, Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation, "Asset-Based Strategies for Building Elder-Friendly Communities, Phase 2" ($39,759); Perspectives Charter School, "Building School-Community Connections" ($25,000).

		Eva Lam, National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship ($55,000).

		Greg Duncan was elected president of the Population Association of America, a major scientific organization of professionals working in the field of population research.

		Carol Lee was elected vice president of the Social Context of Education division of the American Educational Research Association and became a member of the governing body of the Association.

		The American Psychological Association selected Dan McAdams to receive the Theodore Sarbin Award for 2006. The award honors innovative theorizing in psychology. In addition, McAdams's new book, The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, won the 2006 William James Award from the American Psychological Association for the best general-interest book in psychology.

		James Spillane was a visiting scholar at the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, Lyons, France, in April and May.

		Daniel Edelson, A. Tarnoff, K. Schwille, M. Bruozas and A. Switzer, "Learning to Make Systematic Decisions," The Science Teacher (2006).

		Daniel Edelson and Brian Reiser, "Making Authentic Practices Accessible to Learners: Design Challenges and Strategies" in R. K. Sawyer (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (2006).

		James P. Spillane, Brian Reiser and Louis M. Gomez, "Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, and Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation" in M. Honig (Ed.), New Directions in Education Policy Implementation: Confronting Complexity (2006).

		Dan McAdams presented two papers at the meeting of the International Society for Dialogical Science in Braga, Portugal, in June. One was based on The Redemptive Self, and the other was entitled "Love, Work and the Dialectic in the Life Stories of College Professors."

		James Spillane gave the opening plenary address, "Getting to Organizations & Systems Without Losing Touch with Learners & Teachers," at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences on June 28.

"While there has been much research on the speaking aspect of teaching through dialogue, there is relatively little on the critical role that listening plays in teaching," says Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, director of the Master of Science in Education program. From October 6 to 8, with the support of the Spencer Foundation, she will host a conference of educators studying the topic of listening.

Haroutunian-Gordon is writing a book on the topic entitled Cultivating Questions: A Focus for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century, which will be released in fall 2007 by the Yale Press. The upcoming conference, to be held at Northwestern, will help to develop subsequent research on the topic.

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