Tucker Center Newsletter - 2011 Spring
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Kudos & Announcements
Honors & Awards
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Dr. Jennifer Bhalla and TC Co-Director and Professor Maureen Weiss won the Research Writing Award from the AAHPERD Research Consortium for their paper, “A cross-cultural perspective of parental influence on achievement beliefs and behaviors in sport and school domains.” This award identifies outstanding contributions of scholarship from papers published in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.
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TC Affiliated Scholar Professor Daheia Barr-Anderson has received a prestigious NIH federal grant. The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) award is entitled, “The effectiveness of a culturally tailored physical activity, healthy eating, and environmental intervention for African American girls.”
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Weiss, along with Professors Toben Nelson and Mary Hearst from the School of Public Health, received funding from the U of M’s Grants in Health Disparities Research to conduct evaluation research of a physical activity-based youth development program in North Minneapolis. The purpose of the project is to reduce obesity and promote healthy lifestyles among adolescent youth populations.
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Doctoral student Emily Houghton was elected to a two-year term as a graduate student representative for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS).
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Doctoral candidate Chelsey Thul received a Thesis Research Grant from the U of M’s Graduate School to support her research on overcoming barriers to physical activity for East African adolescent girls.
Scholarly Activities
- TC Director and Professor Mary Jo Kane’s manuscript, “Fictional denials of female empowerment: A feminist analysis of young adult sports fiction” has been reprinted in V. Bjerre and S. Bandy (Eds.), Literary tales of sport in Scandinavia: Heroes, memories and identity (Copenhagen: Aarhus University Press, 2010). Kane has also been invited to write an article on the sexualization of female athletes for a special edition of The Nation magazine.
- TC Associate Director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi, along with Fulbright Senior Scholar Sarah Leberman, Massey University, New Zealand, have published “Juggling balls and roles, mother-coaches in youth sport: Beyond the dualistic mother-worker identity” in the Journal of Sport Management.
- Weiss and former doctoral student Dr. Melissa Price, University of Nevada, published a study titled, “Peer leadership in sport: Relationships among personal characteristics, leader behaviors, and team outcomes” in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
- Thul, along with adviser LaVoi, published “Reducing physical inactivity and promoting active living: From the voices of East African adolescent girls” in the Qualitative Journal of Sport & Exercise.
Presentations
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TC Affiliated Scholar Professor Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, along with graduate students Ayanna Franklin, Tara Robertson, Monique Foster, and James Winges, presented a symposium last October entitled, “Sport injury psychology and socioculture: Does gender matter?” at the Association for Applied Sport Psychology Annual Conference in Providence, RI.
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Austin Stair Calhoun and Alyssa Norris, Sport Psychology Doctoral and Master’s students, respectively, conducted a workshop pertaining to their ongoing research projects exploring gay coaches’ experiences within intercollegiate athletics at the Creating Change Conference in Minneapolis last February.
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Weiss gave an invited presentation titled, “Teach the children well: A holistic approach to developing physical, social, and psychological competencies through physical education” at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Kinesiology in Williamsburg, VA, last October.
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Wiese-Bjornstal presented a talk on “The science of aggression and reinforcement in ice hockey: Implications for concussion risk and consequence” at the Mayo Clinic Ice Hockey Summit: Action on Concussion in Rochester, MN, last October.
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LaVoi, Calhoun, and Professor Marie Hardin, Curly Center for Sport Journalism, Pennsylvania State University, participated in a symposium titled, “Getting sport sociologists ‘off the bench’: The many uses of blogs” at the NASSS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, last November.
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Master’s student Katie Wurst organized a national-level coach education workshop co-hosted by the Tucker Center and USA Rugby, which was held at the U of M in March. Rugby is played in 120+ countries, currently classified as an NCAA emerging sport for women, and is a newly inducted Olympic sport.
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