Awards, Honors, and Grants

Faculty Awards and Honors

Deborah Loewenberg Ball
81st Honors convocation speaker, March 14, 2004

David K. Cohen, Steven W. Raudenbush, & Deborah Loewenberg Ball
AERA Palmer O. Johnson award for 2004, made annually, to the "...authors of an outstanding article appearing in an AERA sponsored publication."

Elizabeth A. Davis
Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from Division C of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Jacque Eccles
E. L. Thorndike Award from Division 15 of the APA. and the invited address at the 2005 APA meeting as a part of this award.

Barry Fishman
Pattishall Award for 2003-2004; delivered the annual Pattishall Lecture: "Research Amidst Reform: Teacher Learning, Leadership, and Innovation Usability."

Anne Ruggles Gere
Keynote speaker for the Spilman Symposium on Composition Studies, Virginia Military Institute, October 2003

Tasha Lebow
President-Elect of the National Association for Multicultural Education to become NAME's president in 2005.

Elizabeth Birr Moje
Named as one of five Thurneau Professors by the UM Regents, one of the highesthonors given by the University in recognition of contributions to undergraduate education.

Stephen Raudenbush
William Angoff Memorial Lecture at Educational Testing Service, April 1, 2004; Harvard Graduate School of Education's Alumni Council Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education presented June 9, 2004.

Lesley Rex
Elected Research Chair of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy; invited to join the Standing Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Edward Silver
2004 Outstanding Contributions Relating Research to Practice Awards, Professional Service category, AERA

Student Awards and Honors

Adam Ancira, Alaina Dillon Feliks, Monet Gonszar, Charles Gragg, Ronald Keoleian, Paul Perrault, Thomas Schweinhart & Alan Striegle (ES)
Michigan Certificates for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (MCOATT).

Tim Cain (CSHPE)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Rong Chen (CSHPE)
Barbour Scholar in the Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

Anne Marie McEvoy Conley (CPEP)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Sonia Deluca
Michigan Leadership Tapestry Award from the University of Michigan

David DeYoung (ES)
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: spring/summer 2004

Brighid Dwyer (CSHPE)
President-elect for the Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR) for 2004-2005

Mark Garrett, CSHPE
Commissioned as an officer, Navy Reserves.

Kellie Hammers
Midwest Regional Counselor Award for Outstanding Service

Wen-Yu (Sylvia) Lee – (ES )
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: Spring/Summer 2004

Angela Locks (CSHPE)
2004-2005 Margaret Dow Towsley Scholar from the Center for the Education of Women

Ellen Meader (CSHPE)
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: Winter 2004

Esohe Osai
Rockefeller Fellow on a summer project on teaching in an urban environment

Suzanne Perkins-Hart, Angela Locks & Venice Sule
The Center for the Education of Women 2004-05 CEW Scholars and Fellow.

Debra Petish (ES )
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: Winter 2004

Douglas Ready (ES)
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: Fall 2003

Megan Schultz (ES)
Runner-up in the annual scholarship competition sponsored by the Michigan Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (MACTE).

Mary Beth Ziskin (CSHPE)
Rackham one term dissertation fellowship: Spring/Summer 2004

Grants

Brighid Dwyer & Angela Locks (CSHPE students)
"A Multimedia Approach to Learning About Brown v. Board and Desegregation." From LS&A, University of Michigan

John Burkhardt
a.“Leadership Development Aspirations and Strategies for Minority Serving Institutions of Higher Education,” $12500 from the University of Michigan, 4/2004-4/2005
b.Kellogg Forum continuation grants from the W.W. Kellogg Foundation, $254,000, 9/2003-8/2006

Joanne Carlisle
“Identifying Key Components of Effective Professional Developmment in Reading for First Grade Teachers and their Students,” from IES/USDOE, $1,638,912, 9/2003-8/2006.

Heidi Grunwald (CSHPE student)
“Factors Affecting Use of Instructional Technology in Traditional Classrooms,” from the Association for Institutional Research, $15,000, 6/2003-8/2004.

Abigail Jewkes (ES student)
"The Power of the Family: A Longitudinal Investigation of How the Home Environment Influences Preschool Language Development," from the Board of Language Learning, $1500, 1/2004-12/2004

Anne Gere
“Teacher quality: Recruitment and Retention,” from USDOE, $45,790, 9/2003-8/2004.

Roger Goddard
“The Education Leadership Institute for School Principals from Tianjin, China,” from the Center for Management Training & Development, $18,215, 9/2003-2/2004.

Heather Hill & Deborah Ball
“Design, Validation and Dissemination of Measures on Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics,” from NSF-MSP, $4,265,758, 9/2003-8/2008.

Patricia King
“Conditions Affecting Liberal Arts Outcomes,” from Wabash College, $63,441, 1/2004-4/2004

Janet Lawrence
“Professional Development Seminar for Higher Education Administrators,” from the Center Management Training & Development, $74,000, 12/2003-7/2004

Eleanor Linn
“Family Math, Family Science, Playtime in Science,” from MDE, $199,637, 7/2003-6/2005

Martin Maehr, Edward Silver & Stu Karcebenick
“MSP Motivation Assessment Program: tools for the Evaluation of Non-Cognitive Outcomes of Math and Science Instruction,” from NSF-MSP, $1,930,867, 9/2003-8/2006.

Elizabeth Moje
"An Examination of the Social and Cultural Influences on Adolescent Literacy Motivation and Development," from NIH, $3,084,770, 3/04-2/2005.

Susan Neuman
"Teacher Quality Enhancement Subgrant," from Michigan State University/USDOE, $330,513, 10/2003-9/2005.

Annemarie Palincsar & Shirley Magnusson
a. "The Influence of 1st- and 2nd-hand Investigations on Learning Opportunities and Outcomes in an Inquiry-based Science in the Elementary School," from NSF, $855,834
b. "Reading to Learn," from Institute for Education Sciences, $ 955,642
c. "Investigating the Feasibility of Scaling Up Effective Reading Comprehension Instruction Using Innovative Videocase-based Hypermedia,” from NSF, $995,462, 8/2003-7/2005.
d. "The Development and Dissemination of Tools to Advance the Practices of Literacy Coaches to support Text Comprehension Instruction" from the Carnegie Corporation, $405,900

Chris Quintana, Joe Krajcik & Eliot Soloway
“Design Guidelines for Learner-Centered Scaffolding on Handheld Computers,” from NSF, $447,602, 9/2003-8/2006.

Stephen W. Raudenbush
“Building Capacity for Evaluating Group-Level Intervention,” from W.T. Grant Foundation, $250,000, 10/2003-12/2004.

Lesley Rex
“Who is the 'We'?: A study of racialized discourse and identity politics in classroom literacy teaching and learning," from the Spencer Foundation, $34,723, 9/03-8/04.

Laura Roop
“Oakland Michigan Writing Project,” from the National Writing Project/USDOE, $44,000, 7/2003-6/2004.

Brian Rowan
“The Capacity System Reform/Instructional Quality (CSR/IQ) Consortium,” from USDOE/Co-nect Schools, 9/2003-8/2006. $352,777

Edward Silver
“Editorship of the Journal of Research in Mathematics Education,” from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, $122,237, 6/2003-5/2004.

Rodney Williams
a.“E-Portfolio Partnership,” from SOE/TACUP/PROVOST, $49,000, 7/2003-6/2004.
b. “Handheld Learning Technologies in Social Studies,” from NCSS/Texas Instruments, $15,000, 7/2003-6/2004.

Karen Wixson and Brian Rowan
“UMBS/SOE Collaborative Activities,” from the Spencer Foundation, $100,000, 10/2003-12/2005.

Published Spring 2004

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