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Teaching community health workers to utilize family history for prevention
-Dr. Lei-Shih (Lace) Chen, associate professor of health education, is helping rural Texas communities tap into family health history by educating community health workers about basic genetics through bilingual workshops.
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Studying the Impacts of Self-Control on Behavior Problems
-Self-control is the ability to control your emotions, thoughts and behaviors – the quality that allows you to stop yourself from doing things you want to do but that might not be in your best interest.
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Technology’s Impact On Learning A Foreign Language
-100 fourth and fifth grade, English-speaking students, participated in two groups – one with E-flashcards and one with traditional paper flashcards. The objective was to learn 20 new Chinese words during each lesson.
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ICYMI: Video From The Voices Of Impact Speaker Series
-Inspired by the popular TED talks, speakers engaged attendees in five-minute presentations featuring one slide. Each presentation touched on a variety of engaging topics related to our everyday lives.
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Teachers: Undervalued But Incredibly Valuable
-A research team decided to work on changing the negative narrative surrounding teachers. They focused on the stories of impact from the students interviewed during the research process.
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Closing The Branding Gap Between Male And Female Athletes
-On Forbes’ list of the world’s highest paid athletes, not a single female athlete made the cut. Why is that? Recent research from the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Education and Human Development aims to demystify why female athletes do not stack up to their male counterparts in building profitable personal brands.
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What Is Design Thinking?
-With a focus on design thinking, Dr. Richard Kimbell, Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths University of London, is presenting a series of lectures and workshops at Texas A&M.
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3rd Annual Voices Of Impact Speaker Series Planned
-The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held February 6 at 6 p.m. at the Ice House on Main in Downtown Bryan.
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National Mentoring Month: How a Mentee Becomes the Mentor
-If not for a generous mentor, Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Thornton may have never earned his EdD, or even attended college at all.
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CEHD Advances In Latest Online Education Rankings
-The 2019 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings, released today, list the college’s online graduate programs as 16th in the country.
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Moving On After 20 Years With CEHD
-After spending 20 years with the Department of Educational Psychology, both are retiring January 31.
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Testing Technology’s Impact On Literacy And Writing
-Ready, Set, Write! is the brainchild of Drs. Li-Jen Kuo and Quentin Dixon, associate professors in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University. They worked with doctoral student Stephanie Moody to develop curriculum that focuses on improving writing skills of struggling second grade students.
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Support For Family Caregivers After Military Traumatic Brain Injuries
-Each year, traumatic brain injuries account for more than two million emergency visits, 280,000 hospitalizations and 50,000 deaths.
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Live From The International Space Station: Human Health Risks Of Spaceflight
-Spending time aboard the International Space Station poses challenges to human health and performance. On Thursday, November 29, astronaut Serena Auñón Chancellor, M.D., NASA physician astronaut and former flight surgeon, will join us to discuss living in the space environment.
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Alcohol Awareness For Children Starts With Parent Attitudes
-Parent behavior can mean the difference between healthy and unhealthy drinking outcomes for children. Texas A&M alcohol researcher, Dr. Adam Barry, debunked the myth that allowing underage drinking in a home environment with parental supervision results in healthier outcomes for children.
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Grief And Children In The Classroom
-It has been described as the most traumatic thing that can happen in a child’s life. One out of every 20 children aged 15 and younger will suffer the loss of one or both parents. 1.5 million children are living in a single-parent household because of the death of a parent.
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STEM And STEAM: Can Science And Math Really Be Creative?
-It is a growing movement – the change from STEM to STEAM. STEM brings together the four basic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math. STEAM brings in art and design.
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The Coaching Academy: A Playbook For Success
-Michael Park ’73 walked onto the Texas A&M University campus for the first time in fall of 1968, a year before the College of Education was founded.
He came to the university with a dream of playing football, eventually earning a spot on the team as a walk-on. At the end of his college football career, he received the honor of varsity football letterman.
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ADHD Research: From Child To Adult
-More than six million children are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. It is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood.
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Promoting Literacy Through Partnership
-32 million American adults are functionally illiterate. For Dr. Sam von Gillern, the key to changing that statistic starts in elementary school.
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Bullying Prevention: How We Can Make A Difference
-One in every four students is bullied. Most bullying happens in middle school and comes in the form of verbal and social bullying. Dr. Jamilia Blake, associate professor of school psychology, studies the causes and effects of bullying at school and its impact on victims.
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Prioritizing Health and Wellness
-Over the past 10 years, researchers have seen a growing number of college students suffering from depression, anxiety, obesity and hypertension. Those trends caught the attention of Amy Sharp ‘19, Texas A&M University’s newest Student Body President.
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Hot Topics In Health Ed
-The modern-day health education class is more than just the food pyramid and sex ed. Dr. Meagan Shipley, a clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M, said hot-button issues like bullying and mental health are vital to school health education today.
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Obesity: Not Just A Lifestyle Problem
-It is something we see on an almost daily basis. Someone being shamed for their weight, called lazy and told they need to change their lifestyle.
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Goldsby Retiring But Not Giving Up Teaching
-It was a simple “thank you” that she remembers as a validation of her decision to teach. His name was Luis and he sat in the second desk on the second row from the wall.
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