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Aaron Beighle (and colleague Heather Erwin) developed partnerships with counterparts at John Moores University (Liverpool, England) to study and implement interventions to increase the amount of physical activity students accrue during school. Their efforts have led to a goal-setting recess study and segmented school-day physical activity manuscripts. |
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Malachy Bishop is setting up an exchange program between UK and the Rehabilitation Counseling Program at the University of Sydney in Australia. Benefits of this partnership include establishing educational web-based course work, a student exchange program, and a faculty exchange program. |
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Lars Bjork is co-director of the International Symposium on Educational Reform (ISER) which seeks to advance graduate studies and collaborative research between UK and East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), the University of Pretoria (Republic of South Africa), and Universidad de San Francisco Quito (Ecuador). |
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Belva Collins was part of a team that conducted a three-day work shop for special education faculty at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The presentation focused on using single subject research to conduct applied research with students with disabilities in classroom settings. |
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Ralph Crystal has developed a partnership with colleagues at City University in London, England, to develop a collaborative distance learning program for American and European students. He intends to launch a certificate program relating to Employment and Technology for persons with disabilities. |
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Alan DeYoung’s most recent project was an Embassy Policy Specialist Program for U.S. citizens or permanent residents for the year 2010/11 in Eurasia. This program gives U.S. scholars the opportunity to serve as researchers-in-residence at U.S. Embassies and Consulates in Eurasia. The goal of this project is to improve government access to knowledge and expertise in the region. |
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Heather Erwin (and colleague Aaron Beighle) developed partnerships with counterparts at John Moores University (Liverpool, England) to study and implement interventions to increase the amount of physical activity students accrue during school. Their efforts have led to a goal-setting recess study and segmented school-day physical activity manuscripts. |
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Sonja Feist-Price was a part of a research team that conducted a 5-year multi-million dollar school-based alcohol and HIV prevention intervention in South Africa. The major goal of this project was to develop a combined alcohol and HIV prevention school-based curriculum and small media campaign for secondary school students in South Africa.
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Parker Fawson established an MOU between Kigali Institute of Education and Utah State in 2010. In 2011, he explored opportunities for student teaching placements through Shanghai Normal University with schools in Xi'an. |
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Beth Goldstein, co-director of the UK-Asia Center, has successfully created partnerships in China by developing the Confucius Institute at Shanghai University. Beth seeks to increase study of Asia with a focus on teacher education transpiring into partnerships with the University of Lampung in Indonesia as well as Kuala-Lunpur in Malaysia. |
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Jennifer Grisham-Brown led a project in Guatemala at La Esperanza, a children’s home that allowed Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (IECE) students to complete an international practicum experience. Dr. Grisham-Brown is also a founding board member of “Hope for Tomorrow”, the Civil Society that oversees and operates La Esperanza. |
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Jeanette Groth, together with Linda Levstik and colleagues from University of Winneba, Ghana are developing a research program investigating how Ghanaians develop civic ties that transcend historic inequities. |
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Laurie Henry has pursued her research interests internationally leading her to travel to the "School for Digital Transformation" in Porto, Portugal as well as presenting at The International Education and Research Conference in Athens, Greece and the International Climate Change conference in Rio de Janeiro. |
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Jane Jensen is the chair of the Rome Exchange which is part of the UK Appalachian Center’s programming. This is an over-25-year-old faculty exchange program between the University of Rome La Sapienza and UK Appalachian Center. "Our partnership is with their version of American Studies and is intended to increase understanding of the Appalachian region in the world." |
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Lee Ann Jung traveled to Bangkok, Thailand partnering with the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas School (NESA) to develop intervention plans and collect progress data for children with disabilities which will become part of a larger collaboration with NESA moving next to Muscat, Oman. |
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Linda Levstik is a member of the History Education International Research Network and has presented her research in a number of international settings. At present she and Dr. Jeanette Groth together with colleagues from University of Winneba, Ghana are developing a research program investigating how Ghanaians develop civic ties that transcend historic inequities. |
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Joan Mazur (with colleague Katherine McCormick) collaborated with a university community based organization, Shoulder to Shoulder-Global, in Ecuador. She worked with two universities in Ecuador, a clinic, and local schools. The purpose of this partnership was to support engagement of UK students with international communities and support the COE students and faculty in these activities. |
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Katherine McCormick (with colleague Joan Mazur) collaborated with a university community based organization, Shoulder to Shoulder-Global, in Ecuador. She worked with two universities in Ecuador, a clinic, and local schools. The purpose of this partnership was to support engagement of UK students with international communities and support the COE students and faculty in these activities. |
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Nancy McCreary worked with a group of faculty, students, and public school teachers from Bellarmine University in Louisville on a project in Jamaica to participate in and contribute to early elementary education in the Montego Bay Area. In 2010, she presented at the World Conference on Educational Sciences in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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Kristen Perry co-directs the Cultural Practices of Literacy Study with Victoria Purcell-Gates at the University of British Columbia in Canada. In 2010, she conducted workshops with education faculty in Indonesia. In Lexington, she works with adult refugees and recent immigrants from Congo, Liberia, Togo, Egypt, Bhutan, Nepal, Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Rory Remer and wife Pam Remer have ongoing involvements in Taiwan and China. They travel to Taiwan once a year to do Psychodrama training for Taiwanese mental health professionals. Last summer they gave a two day workshop for university mental health professionals on a social justice approach to date rape prevention. |
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Pam Remer and husband Rory Remer have ongoing involvements in Taiwan and China. They travel to Taiwan once a year to do Psychodrama training for Taiwanese mental health professionals. Last summer they gave a two day workshop for university mental health professionals on a social justice approach to date rape prevention. |
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Jayson Richardson has developed teacher training on how to use Moodle to build online courses in Egypt. He also presented and worked with doctoral students on issues surrounding information and communication technologies and digital citizenship at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana and New Mine Lab in Switzerland. |
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John Thelin has collaborated with the Hong Kong Institute of Education as an advisor and reviewer on their major research grants initiative. John also participated as a speaker and panelist in symposia on globalization and higher education with colleagues from the University of Tennessee and planning groups in Brussels and Paris. These efforts led to collaborations with Vesalius College, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Kent, Universite Libre de Bruxells, the European Union and the Office of Economic and Community Development.
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Ellen Usher has developed international collaborations with researchers to promote self-efficacy of early adolescents and teachers as well as advocating for civic education. These efforts have linked Ellen with the Université Pierre Mendès (Grenoble, France), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), Korea University, and new partners in Lugano, Switzerland. |
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