Tucker Center Newsletter - 2009 Spring
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Kudos & Announcements
Honors & Awards
- Affiliated Scholar Diane Wiese-Bjornstal has been appointed to the 2009 Science Board of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
- Affiliated Scholar Daheia Barr-Anderson was awarded a 3-year, NIH Career Development Grant (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health) to examine environmental influences of physical activity and diet in African-American adolescent girls.
- Co-Director Maureen Weiss and David Goodman (Simon Fraser University) received a 3-year, $90,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Their research examines ways to reduce the incidence of concussions among youth hockey players by educating youth athletes, coaches, and parents.
Scholarly Activities
- Wiese-Bjornstal’s chapter in The 2007 Tucker Center Research Report titled Psychological Dimensions of Girls’ Physical Activity Participation will be reprinted in Women, Sport, & Physical Activity: Challenges and Triumphs (2nd Ed., Kendall-Hunt).
- Affiliated Scholar Lisa Kihl gave an invited keynote address at the University of Washington. Her presentation—Coping with Corruption’s Mess—was delivered at the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership Executive Luncheon.
- Co-director Weiss gave the keynote address titled Promoting a “Love of the Game:” Optimizing Girls’ Physical, Social, and Psychological Assets Through Physical Activity at the First Annual Girls in Sport Symposium, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Associate Director Nicole LaVoi and Chelsey Thul, Ph.D. student, presented their research, Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Girls at the 2009 Active Living Research Conference in San Diego, CA.
- Affiliated Scholar Jo Ann Buysse was invited to deliver Framing the Female Athlete: Media Constructions of Gender to the AAUW Northeast Branch and to students and faculty at The College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN.
- Co-director Mary Jo Kane will give an invited presentation titled Media Representations of Sportswomen in the 21st Century at the NCAA-sponsored Gender Equity & Issues Forum in San Diego, CA in April.
- Affiliated Scholar Doug Hartmann presented The 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement: Domestic Roots, International Reverberations at a conference on global movements of 1986 and will present Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, and the Complexities of Blackness in American Culture at the Torstenson Lecture in Sociology at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, this spring.
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