We are pleased to announce three new faculty members this year: Michele Tine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, will be teaching in Spring term; Michael Harris, Ph.D., Administrative Associate, will be co-directing the teacher education program and teaching in Winter term; Adam Kay, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, will be teaching in Fall, Winter and Spring terms.
By vote of the graduating class of undergraduates, Professor Andrew Garrod was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching. Andrew is one of only three faculty members to win this award more than once in the 30 years since the award's inception (he was also given this honor in 1991).
The WISP (Women in Science Program) interns presented posters at the Wetterhahn Undergraduate Science Poster Symposium on May 21-22, 2009. From the Temple lab, two students participated: Rebecca Rapf , "An Exploration of the Mapping of Fraction Knowledge onto the Mental Number Line," and Neera Chatterjee, "Mental Processing of Fractions: Exploring the Importance of Decimal Knowledge in a Fraction Comparison Task."
In 2008, Kathryn Holroyd was a WISP intern in the Coch lab, researching "brain and behavior in the development of reading skills." This year she was among the winners of a Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Kathryn is a Dartmouth Choate Scholar (top 5% of class), an intern in the Dartmouth Women in Science Program and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow through Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Exploring the Interface IV - Neuromyths and Neurotruths in Education and Brain Sciences, an Educational Neuroscience Conference, will be held on May 19, 2009 at Dartmouth College. Click here for information and the registration form.
We are pleased to announce that Michele Tully Tine, currently at Boston College, will be joining the Education Department as a tenure-track faculty member starting in the upcoming academic year.
The student assembly's Fall 2008 Profiles in Excellence Award was presented to Professor Andrew Garrod at a dinner in his honor on January 19.
Professor Andrew Garrod is the recipient of the Good Work Award, presented by the Association for Moral Education at the November 2008 annual conference in recognition of his research and education efforts in Bosnia, The Marshall Islands, and the United States. The award honors research and education that does good while investigating good; this is practice that is done well professionally and designed to be of special moral benefit to its subjects and their community.
Congratulations to the three seniors in the Reading Brains Lab in the Department of Education who received grant funding from the Dean of Faculty to support their
thesis research! The thesis research of Natalie Berger '09 is supported by the
Kaminsky Family Fund. The thesis research of Elyse George '09 is supported by
the Kaminsky Family Fund. The thesis research of Allison Landers '09 is supported by the David C. Hodgson Endowment for Undergraduate Research.
Professor Andrew Garrod is the 2008 Dartmouth recipient of the Campus Compact for New Hampshire Good Steward Award. This award is given to
a member of the college community "who has contributed his or her professional
expertise in service to the wider community, demonstrated commitment towards student and community voice, and served as a resource for service initiatives
An article recently published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Advance Access, authored by Chiyoko Kobayashi, Gary Glover and Elise Temple, is
featured on Nature's website. For a summary, please click here.
A recent study coauthored by Professor Elise Temple shows that special training can help improve reading ability and normal brain responses in children with dyslexia. press release
Professor Donna Coch is
editor of Human behavior, learning, and the
developing brain: atypical
development and Human behavior, learning, and the
developing brain: typical
development, published in February and May 2007.
Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories
and Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories have just
been published by Cornell University Press both are narratives written by
Dartmouth undergraduates and co-edited by Professor Andrew Garrod..
Professor Donna Coch presentation "Brain and Behavioral Evidence Related to How Children Learn to Read" at conference on May 9 2007.