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News & EVENTS

College Alum Receives Prestigious Award

Mickey L. Ibarra (M.Ed. ’80) served as Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House from 1997-2001.  Mickey Ibarra & Associates, a leading government and public affairs firm that specializes in Washington advocacy, Hispanic outreach and intergovernmental support, was just selected to receive the prestigious Top 100 Minority Business® Enterprise Award.  In its fourth year, this program is designed to acknowledge and pay tribute to outstanding minority business owners in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia.
 
A panel of distinguished judges chose Mickey Ibarra & Associates from fourteen hundred nominations.  Selection was based on entrepreneurs who demonstrated outstanding achievement in four key areas: entrepreneurship, client satisfaction, professional and community contributions.   "Mickey Ibarra & Associates represents the best of what our region's minority business community has to offer," said Sharon R. Pinder, CEO of the Center for Business Inclusion and Diversity and founder of the Top 100 MBE® Awards Ceremony.  "This award is the culmination of sacrifice, dedication and hard work and will inspire future minority business entrepreneurs to strive for the same level of success."

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CSME AND URBAN INSTITUTE RECEIVE NSF GRANT TO PREPARE NEW MATH TEACHERS

Project SMART (a collaborative program of the U Center for Science and Math Education (CSME) and the UofU Urban Institute for Teacher Education (UITE) in partnership with Utah State University and the Park City Mathematics Institute) has been awarded $799,400 in funding from the NSF Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The NSF funding will be supplemented by an additional $250,000 in seed funding from Math for America, a non-profit organization based in New York.  Under the direction of Hugo Rossi (CSME Director) and Mary Burbank (UITE Director), Project SMART will meet the needs of school districts throughout Utah to increase the number and quality of new math teachers.  SMART (Support and Mentoring in an Alternative Route to Teaching) will provide funding for two cohorts of 10 Teaching Fellows equivalent to that of a University graduate assistant for one year, while these students take the basic courses necessary for licensure and spend time in the classroom as a student teacher under the supervision of a mentor. SMART Teaching Fellows then enter the teaching profession, having contracted to remain in the schools for an additional four years. During those four years mentoring and oversight continues, and participants follow a program of study leading to a Master's degree; thus becoming Master teachers. By bringing content-knowledgeable professionals into classrooms, developing strong mentoring relationships with experienced teachers, and offering through professional development workshops (integrated across levels of experience in the profession and across levels of scholarly commitment to the discipline such as provided by the Park City Mathematics Institute),  SMART will create strong professional learning communities in Utah schools.

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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY RECEIVE TWO NSF GRANTS

Professors Kirsten Butcher. Anne Cook, and Robert Zheng have received a three-year $329,000 grant award from the National Science Foundation to study the potential cognitive and educational value of digital tools and services that seek to connect learners to high-quality, online materials for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. The research will evaluate tools and services from the National Science Digital Library (www.nsdl.org), a digital library funded by the National Science Foundation with the mission to support innovation in teaching and learning through organized access to high-quality digital resources and tools. The research funded by this grant will provide a rigorous evaluation of the educational impact of digital library services, and will provide critical data about how new online technologies can promote effective learning with distributed learning objects on the World Wide Web.

Professor Butcher has also received a separate three-year grant award from NSF for $146,000 to develop more advanced forms of computer-based personalized instruction – instruction that targets individual students’ unique learning needs and builds upon their individual profiles of prior knowledge -- and to investigate the effects of such instruction on students’ learning processes and knowledge outcomes. Understanding how computer-based technology can promote individual learning has profound implications for K-16 education, in which diverse populations of learners present major instructional challenges for teachers. Computer-based, personalized instruction may help ensure educational success for all students, from struggling learners to those who need new, more advanced challenges. Overall, findings from this research will inform the design of meaningful educational technologies for the classroom and for lifelong learning.

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A Tribute To Eunice Kennedy Shriver from
the National Center for Community of Caring

It is with deepest regret that the faculty and staff in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring at the University of Utah share the news of the passing of our founder, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on August 11, 2009. Her unparalleled vision, leadership, and advocacy will live forever as the guiding force for Community of Caring Schools throughout the United States and Canada.  We promise to carry on her legacy and to express her dreams every day for every child in every Community of Caring School. 
 
As the staff of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring, we send our prayers to Mrs. Shriver's family in this time of sorrow and reflection. Although she is gone, her spirit will live on forever through the millions of children, families, and schools she will continue to inspire now and into the future.

The EKS National Center for Community of Caring
at the U has created a tribute page  on the
Community of Caring website at  http://www.communityofcaring.org/remembrance.html

Please read more about Eunice Shriver's vision for Community of Caring and share your tribute by emailing contact@communityofcaring.org.  
Your tribute will be posted on the website.

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Engaged Faculty Fellowship Awards

In coordination with the University Neighborhood Partners (UNP), faculty from the College of Education, College of Architecture and Planning, and the Honors College have been awarded Engaged Faculty Fellowships for the coming year. These faculty members are engaged in community-based and community-engaged scholarship through their research, activism, and teaching. 
As Faculty Research Fellows, the team will come together to learn from each other’s teaching and research; to continually (re)center the assets and concerns of the community; and to create opportunities to discuss new and emerging methodological and epistemological frameworks for conducting and engaging in research for social justice.
In alignment with UNP’s mission to facilitate mutually-beneficial and reciprocal relationships between the University of Utah and west Salt Lake City organizations, residents, families, and youth the 2009/2010 Faculty Fellows will play an integral role in expanding current scholarship and in empowering west side communities to illuminate and co-create knowledge.

Enrique Aleman	David Quijada
Leticia Alvarez	Caitlin Cahill
Mary D. Burbank	Matt Bradley
Dolores Delgado Bernal

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U.S. News Ranks College of Education Programs Among the Nation’s Top 25 Three UofU College of Education graduate programs are among the nation's elite in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report's ranking of more than 1,400 universities and colleges. Two programs, Special Education and Educational Leadership and Policy, have been consistently ranked in the top 25 for the past decade by U.S. News. This year Special Education is ranked 18th and Educational Leadership is ranked 21st. New to this year's top 25 is the University's Secondary Teacher Education Program which includes the licensure program in the College of Education and majors from several colleges on campus (including Health, Humanities, Fine Arts, Science, Mines and Earth Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Science).

Hugo Rossi Appointed Acting Director of the New Center for Math & Science Education Hugo Rossi, Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah, has been named Acting Director of the proposed Center for Math and Science Education. He received his PhD from MIT and is an internationally recognized researcher in math and science.  Professor Rossi served as Dean of the U's College of Science from 1987 to 1993. While Dean, he started the highly successful and still running College of Science ACCESS program, introducing young women to science. During his career, Professor Rossi has held Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships and spent a year as visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study; served as Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, AMS/MAA; the Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley; and co-founder of Berkeley and San Francisco Math Circles and the Bay Area Mathematics Olympiad.  The Center, a partnership of the College of Education and the College of Science, will focus on research in the teaching of math and science education in public and higher education, including a deeper understanding of the role of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity in learning. Under Dr. Rossi's leadership, the Center will also develop collaborative programs across the Colleges of Science and Education for new teacher candidates, practicing teachers, school specialists, and educational leaders; recruit new math and science students to the U; and develop interdisciplinary graduate degree programs.  Dr. Rossi's appointment is effective immediately.

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