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By Maureen Schlangen

On Friday, April 23, faculty and staff in the School of Education and Health Sciences will present their latest research in the Thomas C. Hunt Building a Research Community Day.

The event, which launched in 2006, will be available to all in the UD community via Zoom link on the morning of the event from the conference website. In addition to featuring research presentations, Dean Alison Carr-Chellman will recognize summer research grant recipients and Global Education Seminar participants; announce new grant awardees; and present the annual faculty awards.

Julia Circle, director of didactic education in the Department of Physician Assistant Education, is the event's chair.

Schedule:

• 8:30 a.m. — Zoom meeting opens
• 9 a.m. — Dean Ali Carr-Chellman (Office of the Dean): Opening remarks, 2020-20 School of Education and Health Sciences Faculty Awards
• 9:40 a.m. — Amy Christopher (Physician Assistant Education): Recording: “Personality and Behavioral Influence on Physician Assistant and Pharmacy Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Education” (with Lindsey Hammett) and “Health Literacy of African Immigrants and Refugees in the Dayton Area”
• 10 a.m. — Matthew Witenstein (Educational Administration): “Improving Access for Women in Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) in India: A Policy Gap Analysis”
• 10:20 a.m. — Susan Davies (Counselor Education and Human Services): “Brain Health Research Collaborative”
• 10:40 a.m. — Corinne Brion (Educational Administration): “Creating Inviting School Cultures During COVID-19: The Role of the Principal”
• 11 a.m. — Haozhou Pu (Health and Sport Science): “Esports and Sport Gamification during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
• 11:20 a.m. — Lunch break and meeting on diversity, equity and inclusion
• Noon — Meredith Wronowski (Educational Administration): “‘We’ve Been Forgotten’: Firsthand Perspectives on Teacher Leaders and Teacher Leadership in Urban Schools”
• 12:20 p.m. — Graham Hunter (Counselor Education and Human Services): “Recommendations for Student Affairs Faculty and Programs: A Content Analysis”
• 12:40 p.m. — Rochonda Nenonene and Novea McIntosh (Teacher Education): Report: Summer Research Grant
• 1 p.m. — Elana Bernstein (Counselor Education and Human Services): “SEL Implementation in Schools: Establishing a Line of Inquiry through Mentorship of Student Research”
• 1:20 p.m. — Diana Cuy Castellanos, Matt Beerse, Gerry Gallo, Rebecca Gonter-Dray, Anne Crecelius (Health and Sport Science): “Pilot Nutrition, Fitness and Injury Screening Clinic: Accomplishments and Outlook”
• 1:40 p.m. — Anne Crecelius (Health and Sport Science): “Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements in the IHPL”
• 2 p.m. — Jennifer Dalton and Diana Cuy Castellanos (Health and Sport Science): “Exploring the Eating Experience in Individuals Recently Diagnosed with Celiac Disease”
• 2:20 p.m. — Trisha Renner and Betsy Donahoe-Fillmore (Physical Therapy): “Effects of Extracurricular Physical Activity on Strength, Balance, Endurance and Quality of Life on Children with Disabilities”
• 2:40 p.m. — Catherine Lawless and Lindsay Gold (Teacher Education): “Special Education Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Toward Teaching STEAM”
• 3 p.m. — Steven Hinshaw (Educational Administration): “Promoting Equity: Differences in Financial Resources Allocation Between Urban Early College High Schools and Traditional Public High Schools”
• 3:20 p.m. — Meredith Montgomery (Counselor Education and Human Services): “Overcoming Barriers to Men's Mental Health: Research Update”

Initially called Building a Research Community Day, the event was renamed in honor of Thomas C. Hunt, a faculty member in teacher education and a fellow in the Center for Catholic Education from 1996 until his death in 2014.