Faculty News & Notes October 2016 ______

Faculty Awards and Honors:

Madhabi Chatterji will provide the keynote address titled, Contemporary methodologies for assessing student learning and evaluating the effectiveness of complex programs in higher education at the XIIth National Forum on Educational Evaluation to be held on October 28-29, 2016 at the Universidad Autonóma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, sponsored by Centro Nacional De Evaluación Para La Educación Superior (CENEVAL)*, Mexico City. Christopher Edmin was ranked 44th to the Root100. This is an annual list of the most influential African-Americans in the fields of business, science, politics, technology, social justice, sports and entertainment. Carol Garber was appointed Associate Editor of Exercise and Sports Science Reviews. Henry Levin has been appointed to the Council of Distinguished Scientists of The National Commission on Social Emotional, and Academic Development, a multi-year initiative of the Aspen Institute to build on the powerful evidence shown by the integration of social and emotional development with academic learning. Elissa Perry, along with third-year TC doctoral student, Dave Mendelsohn, won the Best Student Paper Award in the Gender and Diversity Division at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA this past August. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Director Spike Lee's documentary "2 Fists Up: We Gon Be Alright" and hosted with an alum a screening of the documentary in Cowin auditorium. Lyle Yorks was named Distinguished Principal Research Fellow by The Conference Board.

Journal Articles

Dutt, K., Pfaff, D., Bernstein, A., Dillard, J. & Block, Caryn. J. (2016). Gender differences in letters of recommendations for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2819 Katz-Navon, T., Unger-Aviram, E., & Block, Caryn. J. (2016). Examining the cross-level influence of dispositional and team goal orientations on employee self-regulation and performance in a complex task environment. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, doi: 10.1177/0021886316665460 Chatterji, Madhabi. (2016). Causal inferences on the effectiveness of complex social programs: Navigating assumptions, sources of complexity and evaluation design challenges. Evaluation and Program Planning, 56(6) 128–140.

Chatterji, Madhabi., Tripken, J., Johnson, S., Koh, N., Sabain, S., Allegrante, J.P. & Kufafka, R. (2016). Development and validation of a health information technology curriculum: Towards meaningful use of electronic health records. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 2(4), 1-13.

Lerner, I., Lupkin, S. M., Corter, James. E., Peters, S. E., Cannella, L. A. & Gluck, M. A. (2016). Emotional reactivity and category learning are affected by sleep in a trait- (but not state-) dependent manner. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134(B), 275–286.

Xing, C., Corter, James. C., & Zahner, D. (2016). Diagrams affect choice of strategy in probability problem solving. In M. Jamnik, Y. Uesaka & S. E. Schwartz (Eds.), Diagrammatic representation and inference (Volume 9781 of Lecture notes in computer science., pp. 3-16). New York: Springer.

Emdin, Christopher, Adjapong, E., Levy, I. (2016). Hip-hop based interventions as pedagogy/therapy in STEM: A model from urban science education. Journal for Multicultural Education 10(3), 307-321. Russell, Susan Garnett. (2016). Global gender discourses in education: Evidence from post- genocide Rwanda. Comparative Education, 52(3), 1-24. Russell, Susan Garnett, & Quaynor, L. (2016). Constructing citizenship in post-conflict contexts: The cases of Liberia and Rwanda. Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 14(3), 1-23. Piccolo, L., Merz, E.C., Brito, N.H., He, X., Sowell, E.R., & Noble, Kimberly G. (2016). Age-related changes in cortical thickness vary by socioeconomic status. PLOS One 11(9) e0162511. Mendelsohn, D., & Perry, Eliss. L. (2016). Faculty gender diversity and university performance: The role of diversity climate. Proceedings of the 2016 Academy of Management Meeting, Annaheim, CA. Perry, Elissa L., Golom, F., & Catenacci, L., Ingraham, M.E., Covais, E.M., & Molina, J.J.(2016). Talkin’ ‘bout your generation: The impact of applicant age and generation on hiring-related perceptions and outcomes. Work, Aging, and Retirement, 1-14. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/workar/waw029 Aronson, I., Cleland, C., Perlman, D., Rajan, Sonali, Sun, W., & Bania, T.(2016). Feasibility of a computer-based intervention addressing barriers to HIV testing among young patients who decline tests at triage. Journal of Health Communication, 21(9), 1039-1045. Haddix, M. & Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda. (Eds.) (2016, July). Black girls’ literacies. English Education, 48(4). Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda & Haddix, M. (2016). Education as if black lives mattered. Special Edition of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division B Newsletter. Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda. (2016, July). Why black girls’ literacies matter: New literacies for a new era. English Education. 48(4), 290-298. Tversky, Barbara, Gao, J., Corter, James, Tanaka, Y. & Nickerson, J. V. (2016). People, place, and time: Inferences from diagrams. In M. Jamnik, Y. Uesaka & S. E. Schwartz (Eds.), Diagrammatic representation and inference (Volume 9781 of Lecture notes in computer science., pp. 258-264). New York: Springer.

Parks, C., Wallace, Barbara C., Emdin, Christopher, Levy, I.P. (2016). An examination of gendered violence and school push-out directed against urban black Girls/adolescents: Illustrative data, cases and a call to action. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 15(3), 210-219. Book Choo, S., Sawch, D., Viillanueva, Vinz, Ruth. (Eds.). (2016). Educating for the 21st century: Perspectives, policies and practices from around the world. Hong Kong: Springer Asia Limited. Public Communication

John Allegrante was invited to be one of the featured conference speakers at the InterAcademy Partnership for Health 2016 High-Level Forum on Promoting Health, September 27-28, in Beijing, China, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Peking Union Medical College. Carol Benson's commissioned background paper on language of instruction has been published on the website of UNESCO's first Global Education Monitoring Report. Reference: Benson, C. (2016) Addressing language of instruction issues in education: Recommendations for documenting progress. Background paper commissioned by UNESCO for the Global Education Monitoring Report 2016. Paris: UNESCO. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002455/245575E.pdf Chris Emdin participated in Wisconsin Public Radio (NPR): Will More Black Male Teachers Help Black Boys Better Succeed in School? Chris Emdin was seen on: CTV News (Canada) Hip hop meets Einstein: Students learn science through rap battles - http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/hip-hop-meets-einstein-students-learn- science-through-rap-battles-1.3076974 Faculty Achievement in Grant Monies Received as reported by the Office of Grants and Contracts: New grant monies Project Director Project Title Grantor Grant

Thomas Bailey Implementing Transfer Playbook Bill and Melinda $ 266,000 Gates Foundation

Thomas Bailey Knowledge Development for Scaling Great Lakes $1,500,000 Guided Pathways Reforms in Ohio Higher Education Guaranty Corporation Drug Abuse and Addiction Research New York Charles Basch $ 46,862 Programs University Duke University Collaborative George Bonanno Duke University $ 15,000 Research Institute for the Promotion of Thomas Corcoran Evaluation of Thailand's Premium $ 355,361 Teaching Science Teacher Education Program and Technology

Carol Garber Health Policy Research Scholars Robert Wood $ 30,000 Cohort One Johnson Foundation

Mary Hafeli To Support a Secondary Analysis of National $ 46,209 School and Student Data from the Endowment for Champions of Change Study, the Arts Learning In and Throughout the Arts

Carol Hammer Parents Plus: Language Coach Lehigh University $ 94,045 Thomas Hatch Improve or Innovate? The Spencer $ 49,999 Possibilities and Challenges for Foundation Educational Transformation Across Contexts Collaborative Research: RAPID: CS- NYCE: An Ecological Approach to Nathan Holbert National Science $ 67,072 Understanding the Rollout of Student Foundation Centered Computer Science Education in New York City

Mariana Souto- High Quality Culturally-relevant City College of $ 75,000 Manning Universal Pre-K Practices Across New York Communities

Renewal grant monies

Project Director Project Title Grantor Grant National Research and Development United States Thomas Bailey Center on Developmental Education Department of $1,898,154 Assessment and Instruction Education Methods Training for Research United States Henry Levin Using Cost-Effectiveness and Cost- Department of $ 348,142 Benefit Analysis Education ETS Doctoral Internship in Educational Testing James Purpura $ 28,300 Language Assessment Services Supplement grant monies

Project Director Project Title Grantor Grant Catherine Wyncote Eastern Suffolk Schools $ 10,000 Crowley Foundation

Catherine Smile Train Cleft Project Smile Train Inc. $ 7,000 Crowley

Evaluating FoodCorps' Impact on FoodCorps $ 24,454 Pamela Koch Children's Consumption during School Meals Barbara Tversky CHS: Medium: Collaborative National Science $ 149,559 Research: Augmented Reality for Foundation Multiple People, Perspectives, Platforms and Tasks Voices College- Priscilla Survey Research Initiative Bound Language $ 422 Wohlstetter Academies