No Boys Allowed: Friendships Among High School Girls Can Promote Academic Success, Researchers Find
Not so long ago, advanced math and science courses in high school seemed more like an all boys' club. As more girls began to take courses stereotyped as "male," their friendship groups became an important part of the equation.

Faculty Show Off their 2008 Vision Award Projects
Many College of Education faculty, staff, and students visited the Learning Technology Center for the 2008 Vision Awards Showcase. While munching cookies, they chatted with faculty who described and demonstrated their Vision Award technology projects, which are created to support College of Education classroom instruction.

AISD Honors 23 College of Education Grads as Teachers of Promise
AISD has honored 23 University of Texas at Austin College of Education graduates with the title “Teachers of Promise.” AISD’s Teachers of Promise program recognizes first year teachers who have consistently demonstrated excellent instructional practices and excelled in what is, for most, the most challenging year of teaching.

New Center Helps Alleviate Critical Shortage of Children's Mental Health Services
The Department of Educational Psychology is partnering with Dell Children’s Medical Center to create the Texas Child Study Center. The center will consist of an outpatient clinic that offers children’s mental health services, training for mental health professionals and graduate students, intervention services for families and research opportunities for faculty and students.

Resilience Improves Diabetes Self-Management, According to Preliminary Study Results
Resilience expert Dr. Mary Steinhardt has completed the first stage of a diabetes study, the results of which show that coaching classes and resilience-building can help African American adults with type 2 diabetes more successfully self-manage the disease.

Work to Support Women in Higher Education Garners Scholar a National Award
Dr. Patricia Somers, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration, has been awarded the American College Personnel Association’s (ACPA) Research and Scholarship Award. The award was given by the ACPA’s Standing Committee for Women.

Physical Education Specialist Wins National Textbook Award
The first Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty") ever to be won by a University of Texas at Austin faculty member went to Dr. Dolly Lambdin this year for her work on the textbook Fitness for Life: Middle School.

Child's Play and Playground Safety Expert Receives Great Friend to Kids Award
Dr. Joe Frost, Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education, has been awarded the Association of Children's Museums (ACM) Great Friend to Kids Award for his over four decades of work to strengthen education and advance the interests of children.

Scholarship Created to Help Multicultural Special Education Graduate Students
Maria Elisa Paredes Ulcak, a doctoral candidate in multicultural special education, has been named a recipient of the newly created Dr. Linda Dulce Mora Limón Scholarship. She was honored in an awards ceremony held in the College of Education on March 26.

World Record-Holding Powerlifters and Scholars Win Lifetime Achievement Award
Drs. Terry and Jan Todd, faculty members in the College of Education?s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, were honored in London, England, on March 15 with the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.