New Faces
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Ryan Brown joins the School of Education and Social Policy as assistant professor of human development and social policy. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in health policy research at the University of California, San Francisco/Berkeley. |
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David Figlio comes to SESP from the University of Florida, where he was Knight-Ridder Professor of Economics. He is an expert on education policy and public economics. |
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Grants
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Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, "Careers and University Commerce," $5,000. |
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Kemi Jona and Dean Grosshandler with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation, "CI-Team Implementation Project - The iLab Network," $429,024. |
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John Kretzmann. Chicago Community Trust, "Building the School-Community Connector Role," $360,000; Deborah Puntenney and Kretzmann, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, "Neighborhood Health Status Improvement," $90,000. |
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Steven McGee and Linda Brazdil, Boeing Company, "Development of an Online Lesson-Planning Tool for the Meaningful Science Consortium," $50,000. |
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Miriam Sherin and Bruce Sherin, Martinson Family Foundation, "Freezing Time: Using Digital Video to Help Teachers Reason about Classroom Events," $499,928; Miriam Sherin, Spencer Foundation, "Characterizing the Nature and Development of Mathematics Teachers' Noticing," $28,475. |
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James Spillane and Michelle Reininger, Spencer Foundation, "School Principal Preparation, Recruitment, Retention and Career Paths," $510,875. |
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David Uttal, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Greg Duncan and James Spillane, Institute of Education Sciences, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences, $4,116,861. |
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Michael Wolf and David Rapp, National Institute on Aging ($1,900,000) and Satter Foundation ($100,000), "Health Literacy and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults." |
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Honors and Awards
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Dan McAdams received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Valparaiso University. |
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Andrew Ortony was selected to serve on the international review panel for the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology & Research awards. |
Publications
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Fay Cook, M. Delli Carpini and L. R. Jacobs, "Who Deliberates? Discursive Participation in America" in Shawn Rosenberg (Ed.), Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: Can the People Govern? (2007); Cook and T. Bolsen, "Public Opinion on Energy Policy 1974-2006," Public Opinion Quarterly (2008). |
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Louis Gomez, Miriam Sherin, J. Griesdorn and L. Finn, "Exploring the Role of Technology in Pre-Service Teacher Preparation," Journal of Teacher Education (2008). | |
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Jody Kretzmann and Deborah Puntenney, "Neighborhood Approaches to Asset Mobilization" in G. P. Green (Ed.), Mobilizing Communities (2008). | |
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Dan McAdams, foreword in H. A. Murray, Explorations in Personality: 70th Anniversary Edition (2008); "American Identity," The General Psychologist (2008); "Generativity, the Redemptive Self, and the Problem of a 'Noisy' Ego in American Life" in H. Wayment and J. J. Bauer (Eds.), Transcending Self-Interest (2008). | |
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David Rapp, "How Do Readers Handle Incorrect Information during Reading?" Memory & Cognition (2008); Rapp and C. A. Kurby, "The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of Learning" in J. K. Gilbert, M. Reiner and M. Nakhleh (Eds.), Visualization (2008). | |
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Miriam Sherin and Bruce Sherin, "Moving from Shared Data to Shared Frameworks," Journal for Research in Mathematics Education Monograph (2008); E. A. van Es and Miriam Sherin, "Mathematics Teachers 'Learning to Notice' in the Context of a Video Club," Teaching and Teacher Education (2008). | |
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James P. Spillane, E. M. Camburn, J. Pustejovsky, A. Stitziel Pareja and G. Lewis, "Taking a Distributed Perspective," Journal of Educational Administration (2008); Spillane, R. R. Haalverson and J. B. Diamond, "Théorisation du Leadership en Éducation," Éducation et Sociétés (2008) |
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Lois Trautvetter, "Undergraduate Perspectives about Religion in Higher Education" in M. R. Diamond (Ed.), Encountering Faith in the Classroom (2008); Trautvetter, "Developing Students Searching for Meaning and Purpose" in G. Kramer (Ed.), Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community (2007). |
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Presentations
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Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon gave a lecture at Stockholm University in Sweden in May on her forthcoming book, Cultivating Questions. |
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Barton Hirsch presented the keynote address, "A Place to Call Home - Studies Documenting the Crucial Support that Programmes Provide to Youth," at a conference organized by the Welsh Assembly Government in Cardiff, Wales. |
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Kemi Jona gave a keynote address, "Educating the Future STEM Workforce," to the education organization Engage New Mexico in April. |
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Dan McAdams in recent months gave invited addresses including a keynote address for a conference sponsored by Yale University and University of Pennsylvania on "Narrative and the Construction of Self," the Joshua A. Rothstein Lecture at Lake Forest Academy and a workshop on clinical uses of narrative for the Michigan Group Psychotherapy Society. |
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Deborah Puntenney presented "Social Change, Social Justice" at the meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in August. |
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Miriam Sherin gave an invited presentation, "Video as a Resource for Investigating Mathematics Teachers' Professional Vision," for the University of Granada in Spain. |
Pioneering Health Literacy Project Receives $2M Grant
When some people with asthma try to use an inhaler, they can't figure out the directions. Others have the same trouble with prescription drug labels. Now with a new grant, associate professor David Rapp and Feinberg School of Medicine and SESP faculty member Michael Wolf (MS07) are collaborating on a groundbreaking initiative to improve patients' understanding of medical information.
David Rapp demonstrates an eye tracker machine he uses to pinpoint where patients falter as they read medical communications.
Photo by Andrew Campbell
"The real issue is how we can design materials and learning experiences that will foster comprehension," says Rapp of his work on the Health Literacy and Learning Program (HeLP). Northwestern is among the first institutions to pair education and medicine in an effort to simplify the health care experience. HeLP research has linked low literacy with a greater risk of poor health care and death.
With a new $1.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, Wolf and Rapp will study a large sample of 500 elderly patients with low literacy. They will identify types of communications that aid in understanding medical communication. In addition, a gift from Northwestern Trustee Muneer Satter and his wife Kristen Hertel (BS86) will extend the study into design work, such as a more visual presentation for medical instructions and prescription labels
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Larry Hedges Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Larry Hedges was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. Hedges, a national leader in the fields of educational statistics and evaluation, is Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. |
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Carol Lee Receives Walder Award
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Professor Carol Lee was named the recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. The award recognizes Lee's scholarly research, which centers on urban education, cultural supports for literacy, classroom discourse and instructional design. Lee also is being honored in October with the 2008 LAS Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois. Lee is the recently elected president of the American Education Research Association (AERA), the nation's most prominent organization for education researchers. |
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