School of Education Sigma Bulletin
This School of Education electronic publication contains current announcements of meetings, presentations, dissertation committees, grants received, employment opportunities of interest to graduate students, and similar items. Sigma is available via email weekly in Fall and Winter terms and biweekly in Spring and Summer.
Sigma Bulletin, May 5 - May 11, 2008
A. DEAN'S UPDATES
B. CALENDAR
C. LOOKING AHEAD
A. DEAN'S UPDATES
Read today's Dean's Updates (Topics include colloquium today, Elementary School Journal editorship, LSA magazine feature, e-mail group, Dynarski testimony) by clicking on this link:
<http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soe.dean/updates&mode=single>
B. CALENDAR
- May 5: Colloquium: Dr. Leticia Marteleto, Research Investigator, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research on "Educational Achievement and Transitions to Adulthood in South Africa," 1:00 pm, Tribute (Room 1322).
- May 6: Active U: Line Dancing, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309). Contact Joan McCoy at 764-7569 or jemccoy at umich.edu for further information.
- May 6: Dissertation Defense by Nicholas Bowman on "Toward a Cultural Psychological Perspective on Social Class," 10:00 am, Tribute (Room 1322).
- May 7: Dissertation Defense by Sean Delaney on "Adapting and Using U S Measures to Study Irish Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching," 10:00 am, Brownlee (Room 2327).
- May 8: Dissertation Defense by Nancy DeFrance on "Struggling Readers Learning with Graphic-Rich Digital Science Text: The Effects of a Highlight and Animate Feature and Manipulable Graphics," 9:00 am, Brownlee (Room 2327).
- May 10: Applications due for ThEMaT's Summer Workshop for Teacher Educators. The event will take place from June 10 - 13, 2008 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Interested people can go to http://grip.umich.edu/ and fill out the online application form. For further information, please send an email to S08-themat at umich.edu.
C. LOOKING AHEAD
- May 15: Deadline for submission of finished videos for the School of Education Video Competition. Rules are at: http://www.soe.umich.edu/videocontest . Please e-mail Eugenie Potter (eugeniep at umich.edu) for further information.
- May 28: CPEP Colloquium: Yi-Miau Tsai, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany on "Motivation in Day-to-Day Classroom Learning: A Short-Term Intra-Individual Approach," 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm, Tribute (Room 1322).
- June 4: Nomination deadline for the James T. Neubacher Award. Do you know someone who makes significant contributions to improve awareness, access, acceptance and full participation in society for persons with disabilities? If so, take a moment to nominate that person. Nominations are open to faculty, staff, students or alumna/ alumnus of the University. The award includes a stipend provided by the Office of the President. More information about the award, on- line nominations and printable nomination forms are available at: http://hr.umich.edu/ability/neubacher.htm .
- September 5: All-School meeting, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Details to follow.
