UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NEWS BITES
WORK-LIFE BALANCE TALK
Dr. Christia Brown, from the UK Psychology Department,
gave a talk to the college in March on work-life balance.
She described in detail how she manages her time in such a
way that allows her to have enough time to devote both to
her work and to her family. The session was arranged by Dr.
Fred Danner.
KHP ALUMNAE HONORED
Brigid DeVries, an alumnae from the UK College of
Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health
Promotion and a recent part-time instructor, was honored
with the 2016 Sue Feamster Trailblazer Award in February
at the Kentucky women’s basketball game against Arkansas.
DeVries was the first female commissioner of the Kentucky
High School Athletics Association. The award is given to
those who have provided exceptional leadership and paved
the way for others to succeed.
“Brigid has been a quiet but highly effective leader
in women’s sports since our days together at UK,” Sue
Feamster said. “Whether she was helping develop the
Bluegrass State Games, UK swimming and diving teams or
her pioneering effort at the KHSAA, where she established
a ground breaking Title IX review of every high school in
Kentucky, which resulted in new facilities, better coaches
and more money being allocated to girls. She has always
been progressive and her work and innovation at every
level has been truly amazing. She is a true trailblazer at the
national and state level.”
Grace Jefferson
ENERGY IS ELEMENTARY PROJECT
AWARDED FUNDING
KHP MASTER’S STUDENT
WINS POSTER COMPETITION
The Energy Is Elementary project has been awarded
$110,000 in funding for 2016-2017 from the Council on
Postsecondary Education’s Teacher Quality grant stream. Dr.
Carol Hanley is the principal investigator and Dr. Rebecca
Krall, Dr. Margaret Schroeder and Dr. Brett Criswell from
the college’s STEM Education Department are co-primary
investigators on the grant. It is designed to increase the
energy literacy of elementary teachers and their students
through the development of curricular materials related to
an outreach program run by the Center for Applied Energy
Research (CAER).
Grace Jefferson won second place in the Master’s poster
award competition at the Southeast Chapter of American
College of Sports Medicine conference in Greenville, SC, in
February. The title of her poster was “Calcitriol favorably
alters lipid partitioning within skeletal muscle cells.”
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COE COMMUNICATOR | APRIL 2016