Faculty, students publish and present research

Faculty, students publish and present research

Several faculty members and students from the College of Human Development and Education have published research-related articles or gave presentations at conferences.

Jill Nelson, assistant professor in the School of Education, co-wrote “First-Year Experiences of Female Tenure Track Counselor Educators,” which was published in the Winter 2008 edition of Professional Issues in Counseling, and “An Invitation to Between-Session Change: The Use of Therapeutic Letters in Couples and Family Counseling,” which was published in The Family Journal.

Graduate student Jessica Brown and Brenda Hall, associate professor in the School of Education, had their paper about counseling military couples selected for publication in “Compelling Counseling Images: The Best of VISTAS 2009.”

Former graduate student Lance Peltier; Brad Strand, professor of health, nutrition and exercise science; and Bryan Christensen, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise science, wrote “Youth Resistance Training: A Review,” which was published in The Journal of Youth Sports.

Beth Blodgett Salafia, assistant professor of child development and family science, was published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies and Parenting: Science and Practice. She also had a paper accepted for publication that appears online in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. In addition, she will discuss her research at three poster sessions of the Society for Research in Child Development biennial conference scheduled for April.

Brent Young, assistant professor in the School of Education, presented a research poster, “The Evolution of ‘Value Added’ Plumbing Pony Exercise: An Approach to Modeling Performance-Based Assessment to Pre-Service Agricultural Education Teachers,” at the Southern Region American Association for Agricultural Education Research conference in Atlanta.

Angie Hodge, assistant professor of mathematics, was invited to help organize a session called “Preparing Teachers to Teach K-12 Algebra” at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.

Michelle Beach, graduate research assistant in the School of Education, was one of the presenters of “Strategies to Accelerate Struggling K-8 Math Students to Grade Level” at the International Child and Adolescent Conference XIV in Bloomington, Minn.