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2009 Points of Pride

CUTTING EDGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

• The Darden College of Education has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read grant to promote reading among adults in Hampton Roads' ethnic communities. Lea Lee, ODU associate professor of teaching and learning, is the principal investigator for the grant. Kaavonia Hinton-Johnson and Gail Taylor from ODU's teaching and learning department are co-investigators for the grant and will also serve as Big Read project leaders.
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded ODU a three-year grant of $661,154 to create the Children and Youth Services Center. The grant is being matched with $533,703 from the university.   Dr. Carol Doll is the principal investigator for the grant.  Dr. Kaavonia Hinton-Johnson and Dr. Gail Dickerson are the co-principal investigators.
• Karen Crum, assistant professor of educational leadership, has been awarded the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) No Child Left Behind Improving Teacher Quality State Grant of $150,000. The grant, which will be shared between ODU, Northampton County Public School, and Norfolk Public Schools, will support the Teaching and Leading for a Quality Mathematics Learning Environment project, piloted by Crum as the principal investigator.
• Darden College of Education professors, Sueanne McKinney, Daniel Dickerson, and Nina Brown, and Batten College of Engineering professor, Alok Verma, were awarded a $1.2 Million grant from the National Science Foundation to aid middle and high school teachers and students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education through a marine-based project.
• Professor of special education, Peggy Hester, was awarded an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to train more doctoral candidates in special education.
• Anatasia Raymer, ODU professor of speech-language pathology, served as a co-investigator with Dr. Stacie Ringleb, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, on a Department of Defense project titled "An internet based rehabilitation program for warriors with hearing loss and auditory processing disorders secondary to blast and traumatic brain injuries."

EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS

• The Old Dominion University chapter of the Student Virginia Education Association won the "Ultimate Award" for the 2008-09 academic year as recognized by the Chapter Standards Award program.
• Timothy Goodale, a curriculum and instruction doctoral candidate won the Will Myers Memorial Scholarship from the American Education Finance Association.
• Jerri Miller Smith, an educational leadership student at ODU, passed the Certification Test of The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in Fall 2008.
• This spring, Bill Reed journeyed to Chicago to receive the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's 2009 Outstanding Dissertation Award.
• Teresa Alley, a student in the community college leadership program, is the recipient of the 2008 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching Excellence Award.
• Kristine Christensen, a doctoral candidate in the community college leadership program, was elected to the Board of the Chicago Area Faculty Development Network and was selected as the 2009 Master Teacher of Moraine Valley Community College.
• Mary Clare Digiacomo, a student in the community college leadership program, accepted a new position in July 2008 as Director of Online Learning at Athens Technical College in Athens, GA.
• Lisa Hall, a doctoral candidate in the higher education program, was recognized by ODU as the 2008 University College STRIDE Employee of the Year Award.
• Keith Harkins, a community college leadership student, was recognized as the 2008 Volunteer of the Year by the YMCA of Central Virginia.
• Daniel Keever, a doctoral candidate in the educational leadership program, was selected to serve as a staff member for the National Student Leadership Conference of the National Association of Secondary School Principals/National Association of Student Councils. Keever was also recognized as the Assistant Principal of the Year by the Virginia Beach Association of Secondary School Principals.
• Martha Mazeika, a student in the community college leadership program, was hired as the Director of Student Success Interventions at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, IL.
• Matthew Meyer, a student in the community college leadership program, was promoted to Associate Vice President for Innovation and Biotechnology with the North Carolina Community College System.
• Michael Rapay, a master's student in the higher education program, was award the 2009 National Academic Advising Region 2 Conference Student Grant.
• Rebecca McBride, Sonya Lorelle, Stephanie Crockett and Julia Forman - finished second out of 10 doctoral-level teams in the ACA Graduate Student Ethics Competition by the American Counseling Association this past January.

OUTSTANDING ALUMNI

• Daniel Keever, who graduated with a master's degree in educational leadership in 2004, was named the new principal of Larkspur Middle School by the Virginia Beach City Public School Board.
• The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is sponsoring Suzanna Panter for the 2009 ALA Emerging Leaders program. Panter graduated in 2006 from Old Dominion University with a Master of Arts in Library Media K-12.
• Andrea Machesney, a German teacher at Maury High School, and Jennifer Carson, a Spanish and International Baccalaureate French teacher at Granby High School, both graduates of the Career Switcher Program, each won the School Bell Award in April 2009.
• Brent McKenzie, a 2007 graduate of the ODU Career Switcher Program, was elected to the Virginia Beach School Board in November 2008. Brent, who is representing the Rose Hall District of the city, is currently a teacher at Norview High School in Norfolk.
• Stefan Mygas, who graduated in 2009 with a Master's degree in Secondary Education in History/Social Studies, accepted a teaching position with Woodside High School in Newport News.
• Bianca Puglia, who successfully defended her dissertation in August 2008, became the first doctoral graduate of the DCOE counseling program and is now a tenure-track faculty member at Eastern Kentucky University.
• Jennifer Clayton, an ODU adjunct instructor, Kelli Cedo, assistant principal of Pembroke Meadows Elementary School, and Tina Robinson, a secondary data specialist in assessment and accountability for Chesapeake Public Schools, who all recently earned their Educational Specialist degrees in Educational Leadership at ODU, have had their case studies published in The Journal of Case Studies in Educational Leadership.
• Tamara Cooper '01 '03, principal of C. Alton Lindsay Middle School in Hampton, VA, was featured in a November 2008 edition of the Daily Press. Cooper, who graduated with an educational specialist degree in K-12 administration, reformed the once-tough middle school with the help of the entire community, since her start in Fall 2007.
• Shameka Hardy '05, who studied applied mathematics and secondary education at ODU, was honored with the U.S. Department of Education's 2008 No Child Left Behind American Star of Teaching award in Fall 2008 for her service as a ninth grade Algebra I and transition teacher at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, VA.

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FACULTY

• Karen Crum, assistant professor of educational leadership, was named the Assistant Editor for Educational Planning for the journal of the International Society for Educational Planning in Fall 2008.
• Danica Hays, associate professor of counseling, was elected President-Elect of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES) at the annual meeting held in Houston, TX.
• William H. Graves, dean of the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University, is currently serving as the chairman of the strategic planning committee for Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
• Jennifer Kidd, a lecturer of educational curriculum and instruction in Old Dominion University's Darden College of Education, is selected as one of 19 winners of the 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition for her project using Wikipedia-style templates to transform instructional environments.
• A study co-authored by Professor William Owings of Old Dominion University's Darden College of Education has been featured in The Washington Post. Owings co-wrote a study on the effectiveness of the U.S. government's Troops to Teachers program.
• Dean William Graves, dean of the Darden College of Education was reappointed by the Norfolk City Council to the Norfolk Community Services Board of Directors. 
• William Owings, professor of educational leadership at ODU, along with Leslie Kaplan, a retired administrator with Newport News Public Schools, received the 2008 Charles Edgar Clear Award for Research from the Virginia Educational Research Association (VERA).
• Developed by Dr. Ed Neukrug, professor of counseling, the Stories of the Great Therapists (SGT) is an online initiative created to support learning about internationally renowned counseling and psychology theorists and their theories.
• Linworth Publishing, Inc., publisher of professional development resources for K-12 educators, announced the addition of ODU's own Gail Dickinson, associate professor of library science, as the new Editor-in-Chief to Library Media Connection (LMC) magazine.
• Dr. Nina Brown, Eminent Scholar of counseling at ODU, was featured in a column in the Washington Times on in Summer 2008. Also, Dr. Brown was featured in the summer issue of the publication, REPORTER, a suicide prevention newsletter for Southeastern, PA.
• Sharon Raver-Lampman, professor of special education, is serving on the Special Education Peer Review Committee under the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) in Fall 2008.
• Abha Gupta, an associate professor of reading education, has been selected by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as a Visiting Scholar during a four-week summer program.
• In June 2009, the director's suite in the Lions Child Study Center was named in honor of former director Katharine Kersey, professor of early childhood education.
• Sueanne McKinney, assistant professor of mathematics education, was recognized as the William C. Lowry 2009 University Teacher of Year by the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (VCTM) at their annual meeting in March.
• Dennis Gregory, associate professor of educational leadership, received the Melvene Draheim Hardee Award from the Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA).
• Recent grants totaling $2.5 million from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) pushed the ODU Training and Technical Assistance Center (T-TAC) over $20 million in total funding just as the facility was celebrating its 30th birthday.
• Shana Pribesh, assistant professor of educational leadership, received the 2009 ALISE/Linworth Youth Services Paper Award, sponsored by Linworth Publishing, Inc. and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).
• Ted Raspiller, interim chair of the educational foundations and leadership department of the Darden College of Education, along with Craig Herndon, director of career services of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), showed the impact of community colleges on economic development at the 2^nd International Conference on Educational Economics, which took place in Athens, Greece in August 2008.
• Dr. Ted Remley, Batten Endowed Chair in Counseling and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services in the Darden College of Education, has been selected to serve on the Committee on the Qualifications of Professionals Providing Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE. 
• Woody Schwitzer was awarded the American Counseling Association (ACA) Ralph F. Berdie Memorial Research Award.  This award is given to encourage and provide support for research in the area of college student affairs or related areas of counseling or education.
• Danica Hays was awarded the ACA Counselor Educator Advocacy Award.  This award was established five years ago and annually recognizes a counseling faculty member who fosters advocacy expertise among counseling graduate students.
• Garrett McAuliffe has published his long awaited Culturally Alert Counseling video series, which is available through Sage publications in conjunction with YouTube.com.