CEHS Current News
- CEHS Students Show Support for 100 Year Book Drive
- Margaret Latta Receives 2007 Swanson Award for Teaching Excellence
- Recent PhD Wins Lincoln Marathon
- Dr. Patricia Crews Delivers Talk for Nebraska Lecture Series
CEHS Students Show Support for 100 Year Book Drive
Posted On May 6, 2008
Students from the NUTR 489 class presented a check for $464.00 to CEHS to support the 100 Books for Children Campaign. The money was raised during the recent "Red, White and Educated" event before the spring football scrimage. The event was organized by their class.
Margaret Latta Receives 2007 Swanson Award for Teaching Excellence
Posted On May 1, 2008
Margaret Latta has received the prestigious Donald R. & Mary Lee Swanson Award for Teaching Excellence. The Swanson award honors exemplary teaching in the College of Education and Human Sciences and is awarded annually. Dr. Latta was honored recently at a luncheon held to recognize her years of work as a teacher, mentor, and colleague.
Dr. Latta believes that teachers are “students of the work of learning,” a labor she passionately engages. Margaret provides skillful and critical guidance to the learners with whom she works, positioning students, teachers, and subject matter in the complex task of meaning making.
As Margaret herself writes, her teaching and research “foregrounds the role and integral place of aesthetic considerations such as attentiveness to personal learning processes, participatory thinking, emotional commitment, felt freedom, dialogue and interaction, speculation, and greater self understandings, within the acts of teaching and learning.”
Recent PhD Wins Lincoln Marathon
Posted On May 6, 2008
Valerie Gortmaker, a recent PhD. graduate of the School Psychology program in CEHS, was the female winner of this year’s Lincoln Marathon. Valerie competed with nearly 400 other female runners and had a winning time of two hours, fifty-nine minutes, and 27 seconds. This is not Valerie’s first marathon win: she has won several marathons in surrounding states and Florida, but this is her first Lincoln win.
Valerie was also a LEND Psychology post-doctoral fellow and completed an internship at Nebraska’s Munroe Meyer Institute. She is currently working with Lincoln Public Schools, and conducts research for Mosaic, an Omaha-based agency that serves those with developmental disabilities.
Dr. Patricia Crews Delivers Talk for Nebraska Lecture Series
Posted On April 22, 2008
Congratulations to Dr. Pat Crews (TCD), whose Nebraska address, "Quilts: Reflections of Trade, Technology and Tradition" was delivered to a rapt audience at the City Union On April 17th.
Dr. Crews address was free to the public, and showed how quilts reflect American culture and the lives of quilt makers.
Dr. Crew's talk was part of the Nebraska lecture series for UNL and being invited to present is a singular honor. Attendees were universally enthusiastic about her ability to tell a story of research, history and tradition so skillfully.
