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News Health education expert speaks on campus Joyce Fetro Interim Chair of Department of Health Education and Recreation Hostetler appointed to Library of Congress education panel Refurbished lab to benefit education grad students National council to honor School of Social Work Four named Pulliam Scholarship Winners |
(Prounouncer: Airhihenbuwa is “air-en-ha-BOO-ah”) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, an
internationally known expert on health education, will talk about the
relationship between culture and health at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2,
in the Hiram H. Lesar Law Building courtroom on the campus of Southern
Illinois University Carbondale. “We also need to understand the location and influence of power rather than focusing solely on the individual.” Airhihenbuwa’s talk ties in with themes from a report released in August by the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. After a three-year study, the group concluded that policies, politics and economics combine to create “unfair, unjust and avoidable causes of ill health” not just in poor countries, but in rich ones, too. Airhihenbuwa’s most recent book, published last year, focuses on the crisis of global health and the politics of identity. He is currently wrapping up a five-year project for the National Institute of Mental Health on dealing with the stigma of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. A public health training project in Nigeria, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center, is ongoing. 
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We are pleased to have Joyce in a leadership role in the department and as a new member of the college’s Executive Council. Hostetler to participate in panel of teachers from across the nation
when he first came to SIUC as a student in 1961, Jerry Hostetler said he spent most of his time in the basement of Morris Library. But the associate professor of education said Tuesday he now spends more time in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama and Congressman Jerry Costello appointed Hostetler to the Professional-Development Curriculum, a panel charged to instruct teachers how to access the library's digital resources and use them in K-12 classrooms.
"Professor Hostetler will provide a talented and experienced voice to ensure the success of this innovative effort," Obama said in a Tuesday news release. The panel, made up of 14 teachers from across the nation, will report about the value of using primary source material - accounts of a historic event documented at the time of its happening - in K-12 classes, according to a news release from the library. The report is scheduled for presentation at the National Education Computing Conference in June 2009. "One of the great benefits of my job is I get to go to Washington (D.C.) a couple times a year," said Hostetler, who has earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate from SIUC. Hostetler said some of the congressional archives that have been made available online include pictures of southern Illinois during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Hostetler said he began working with digital resources at SIUC in 2002 through the Teaching with Primary Sources program. He said at that time, the Library of Congress had 5 million digitized materials instead of the 14 million it has now.
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CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The national Council on Social Work Education will recognize Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Social Work during the council’s annual meeting this fall in Philadelphia. The school has made outstanding contributions and demonstrated engagement and leadership in the field of international social work both at home and abroad, according to Golam M. Mathbor, chair of the council’s award committee. It therefore will receive a Partners in Advancing Education for International Social Work Award, conferred by the council’s Commission on Global Social Work Education annually since 2003. “This recognition from your colleagues in the international field is very well deserved,” wrote Mathbor to Mizanur R, Miah, the school’s director, in an e-mail July 15 announcing the honor. To select this year’s honoree, the committee evaluated six schools nominated from among 600 degree-granting social work education programs. “We heard we were rated by each member of the committee as No. 1,” Miah said. The school’s international focus plays out on a number of fronts, Miah said. For example, it collaborates with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in providing a two-year certified education program for 300 social workers and supervisors in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. It has ties with 11 universities in eight countries, with Study Abroad programs in Austria, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Mexico and India and an Elderhostel program in Mexico. The school has worked actively with the Microcredit Summit Campaign, an international effort aimed at helping the world’s poorest families raise their standard of living, and has memberships in the International Consortium for Social Development, the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work. It financially supports several international conferences and serves as a publication partner of the international journal Social Development Issues. Roughly half the school’s tenured and tenure-track professors hail from other countries, and it often hosts visiting scholars from abroad. Many faculty members serve on international committees and have working ties or research partnerships with colleagues overseas. In addition, the school draws a number of international students to both its undergraduate and graduate programs, offers all international graduate students assistantships and strives to place students in other countries for field practicums. “I think it says something that a small school in the rural Midwest can win this award,” Miah said. “It gives us a lot of pride.” Music with a DJ and lively conversations helped to provide an enjoyable late afternoon with colleagues and students. View photograph
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Graduate students with impaired vision and those in wheelchairs will find a refurbished computer lab in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education much friendlier this fall. One of the new PCs can run ZoomText Magnifier/Reader, a software that not only enlarges and sharpens text but reads what’s on the screen, right down to the menus and program controls if that’s what the user needs. Its 30-inch monitor provides plenty of viewing area, and it sits on a desk that with the push of a button can elevate to any level from sit-down to stand-up, allowing easy wheelchair access. “It was Robert Ricks, a doctoral student who worked in the lab as a technical assistant who suggested the changes,” said Chair Lyle J. White. “As soon as he said it, it hit us like a ton of bricks: We’re a special education department -- we should darn well think about that when we’re putting together a facility for students.” Other changes benefit the bulk of the lab’s users, who in the last three years came from 18 different graduate programs. All the PCs in the second-floor Wham lab are new, and there are more of them -- nine instead of the previous six. “About half of the users are enrolled in our graduate statistics classes, and while our tradition has been to keep those small, students being students, a lot of them don’t get around to doing their assignments until an hour before they’re due, so we had peak periods,” White explained. “We needed more space and more equipment.” An adjacent storeroom, waist high in old green-bar computer paper, has been cleaned out, cleaned up and pressed into service as an adjunct lab for the three additional PCs. In addition, a 9-foot custom whiteboard in the main lab will allow instructors to hold small seminars there. Equipment arrived in late April; the makeover is just finishing up. “Our goal is to have everything together before the fall semester picks up and then have a celebration,” White said. College and University assistance in the lab’s latest remodeling came from Dean Kenneth Teitelbaum, lab Director Todd C. Headrick, Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School John A. Koropchak and Director of Disability Support Services Kathleen Plesko.
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The 2008-2009 Roscoe Pulliam Scholarship winners as announced by the Southern Illinois University Alumni Association are: Arika Pavloff of Du Quoin, Amy Phegley of Mt. Carmel, Joshua Piha of Naperville and Amanda Rabideau of Pittsburg. The Roscoe Pulliam Scholarship Fund awards four, $1,000 scholarship annually to Southern Illinois University Carbondale students. Recipients must be closely related to an SIUC alumnus or alumna who is a current member of the SIU Alumni Association. Here are brief profiles of the scholarship winners. Pavloff, the daughter of Angela and Greg Pavloff, is a freshman in elementary education. She transferred to Southern from John A. Logan College, where she made the Vice President’s List and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa. She worked as a math tutor and teacher’s aide, and volunteered as a nursery helper at church. In high school, she was on the National Honor Roll and was a National Student Athlete. She was included in Who’s Who Among American High School Students and served as Student Council secretary at her school. Phegley, the daughter of Brenda and Terry Phegley, is a senior majoring in kinesiology with a concentration in pre-physical therapy. She is on the Dean’s List and the National Dean’s List and is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society, Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership and Honors Organization and the Golden Key International Honor Society. She is also active in the Student Athletic Advisory Council, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Pre-Health Professions Association, the Saluki Cross Country and the Saluki Track teams. During high school, she was valedictorian of her class and won a Presidential Education Award, U. S. Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award, U. S. Army Scholar Athletic Award and a Prairie State Achievement Honor for Reading. She was also an Illinois State Scholar, National Society of High School Scholar member, and an All American Scholar. Piha, the son of Wendy and Thomas Piha, is a senior majoring in special education and elementary education. His honors include the Dean’s List and membership in Kappa Delta Pi, which is the SIUC chapter of the national Honor Society in Education. He is a summer intern lab technician for the Wheaton Water District. As a high school student, Piha won Outstanding Senior Award in Family and Consumer Science, participated in Best Buddies Service Organization and competed in football and track. He also volunteered with Special Olympics and worked as a tutor. Rabideau, the daughter of Ruth and Thomas Rabideau, is a senior majoring in physiology and philosophy. She is a recipient of the REACH Undergraduate Research Award Grant, Super Student Scholarship, Endocrine Society Summer Research Award, Lonnie Russell Undergraduate Research Award and the President’s Volunteer Service Award. She served as vice president of the National Biological Honor Society Beta Beta Beta chapter, president of the Pre-Health Profession Association and was a Student Life Advisor team captain. She volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, AmeriCorps and Abundant Health Resources Clinic. During high school, she was valedictorian of her class and a member of the National Honor Society.
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