The Ag e-Dispatch

Staff update

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:44:28 -0500

Juliette Jackson has joined the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences as the director of the Child Development Laboratory. Jackson has a bachelors in child development and masters in adult education both from North Carolina A&T State University. She comes to SAES from Rockingham Community College where she was an assistant professor of early childhood education. Jackson has over 25 years of experience in the early childhood profession, including a background in child care consulting and an affiliation with North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children.

Child Development Laboratory graduates 16 and receives state award

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:18 -0500

Sixteen children, 4 and 5 years old, picked up their Child Development Lab (CDL ) diplomas at June 5 graduation ceremonies at A&T’s General Classroom Building. The 2008-09 academic year was a banner year for CDL faculty and staff as well as their students. Out of more than 200 applicants, the CDL was one of only nine to receive a 2009 Early Childhood Professional Development Award, which recognizes exemplary early care and education programs that also promote teacher education. The North Carolina Division of Child Development, North Carolina Institute of Early Childhood Professional Development and North Carolina Child Care Services Association presented the award, and it was accompanied with a plaque and $750 that will be used by the CDL staff for professional development activities.

July has two deadlines for junior faculty to consider

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:33:02 -0500

• The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be accepting proposals until July 23 for its Faculty Early Career Development Program which supports professional development for assistant professors currently without tenure, but whose appointments are tenure-track or the equivalent. Applicants must also have doctorates. The NSF typically awards 425 Faculty Early Career Development Program grants each year. Most of these grants offer more than $400,000 for five-year projects, except for grants to biological sciences faculty, which must have budget requests of $500,000 for their five-year projects. Award-winning proposals will successfully exemplify the role of teacher-scholar with research objectives that integrate furthering an educational concentration within a context of organizational mission. Career development planning should be omnipresent and creative in proposals. The July 23 deadline applies to applicants in the biological, computer, engineering, economic, environmental and life sciences. There is an earlier deadline, July 21, for applicants in other disciplines.

• Until July 10, the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky will be soliciting proposals from junior faculty with full-time academic appointments who have received their doctorates in the past seven years. The Center’s “Young Investigator Development Grants” program is going to recognize three proposals with grants of up to $7,500 each. The Center is looking for social science research regarding low-income populations — including child and family well being, and the economic status of disadvantaged and under-represented populations. Preference will be given to proposals that address poverty in the South.

Worldly wisdoms

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:59:01 -0500

Nov. 17-21 is International Education Week (IEW), which is coordinated annually by the U.S. Departments of State and Education to publicize and recognize the benefits of international educational exchanges. The SAES is going to be on the vanguard of IEW activities on the A&T campus. Eight SAES students who have recently studied abroad or participated in the Peace Corps Master’s International Program will be setting the groundwork for IEW by presenting seminars recapping their experiences:
• Three landscape architecture students — Richard James, Philip Moten and Linley Love — will share what they learned in Italy and Greece on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m. in Room 262 at Carver Hall.
• Child development majors Ryan Tarver and Kylista Darden will be covering their studies in Costa Rica, and Martinique Lewis and Natasha Saunders, fashion merchandising and design majors, will be recapping their studies in Great Britain and France at a program that will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Godfrey Multipurpose Room at Coltrane Hall on Thursday, Nov. 13.
• Courtney Owens, the first student to enter the Peace Corps through the SAES Master's International program will give a presentation on his sojourn in Burkina Faso, West Africa, on Friday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. in Room 262 at Carver Hall.

Dr. Ipek Goktepe, an SAES food scientist, Tarik Bor and Olcay Boyacioglu, SAES graduate students, have been part of the organizing team for a “Day of Turkish Culture” that will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. at Stallings Ballroom at the Memorial Student Union Building on Tuesday of IEW, Nov. 18. Tarik will perform some Turkish folk music in a recital scheduled to begin at 3:20 p.m. The program also includes a discussion of their educational experiences in the U.S. by Turkish students at A&T and UNCG, and a talk by Faruk Logoglul, former ambassador from to the U.S. from Turkey.