Kinesiologist Gets Grant for First Study of Swimming's Cardiovascular Benefits
Dr. Hirofumi Tanaka, has received funding from the American Heart Association for a first-of-its-kind study on swimming and cardiovascular health. He aims to uncover whether or not swimming yields health benefits like weight loss, body fat reduction and lowering of blood pressure in middle-aged and older individuals and, if it does, how and why the changes occur.

Maloch Wins College's Highest Teaching Award
The College of Education has awarded the 2009 Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award to Dr. Beth Maloch, an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction's Language and Literacy Studies area. The award recognizes one faculty member each year who exhibits excellence in teaching and an exceptional commitment to students' academic success.

Teachers Study LBJ and Primary Source Materials at Presidential Timeline Teacher Institute
Johnson worked tirelessly for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and his actions and decisions were crucial in its passage. Analyzing those decisions and actions and the motivations that influenced Johnson was the focus of the Presidential Timeline Teacher Institute, held July 9-12 and hosted by the College of Education's Learning Technology Center.

Sports and Scholarship a Winning Combination for Kinesiology Grad
She's been mistaken for one of the player's little sisters, or one of the coaches' kids. She weighs something less than 100 pounds, can stretch to 5-feet-2, and she does have eyes of gun-metal blue. But those who know the recently graduated Longhorn student Baseball trainer will give you one piece of advice: Don't mess with Jessica Yanta.

H.J. Lutcher Stark Center Chooses Olympic Librarian
Former U.S. Olympic Committee librarian and archivist Cindy Slater has been named the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center's first head librarian. In addition to general archiving skills, Slater brings specific knowledge of sports, sports medicine and sports-related libraries to her new position.

Students in Greatest Need of Highly Qualified Teachers Least Likely to Get Them
A College of Education study funded by Texas Instruments and Texas Business and Education Coalition shows that the math and science teacher shortage in Texas has increased dramatically and that Texas schools serving large percentages of poor, minority and low-achieving students have the least qualified teachers.

Todd Named Legend in the Field of Strength and Conditioning
Dr. Terry Todd, world record-setting power lifter and director of the world's largest physical culture collection, has received the national Legends in the Field of Strength and Conditioning Honor Award from the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA).

Rathbun Honored With University of Texas at Austin Staff Excellence Award
Mina Rathbun, an executive assistant in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, has been awarded a University of Texas at Austin 2009 Outstanding Staff Award.

¡Ya Basta! Scholar who Studies Communities in Crisis Creates Explosive Film about Mexico Kidnappings
The film is "¡Ya Basta!" ("Enough!"), and it's a disturbing, intimate documentary of an epidemic of kidnappings and related crimes that started in Mexico in the '90s. The film was directed by educational psychology Professor Ricardo Ainslie, and it's not the first record he's made of a community in crisis. It's just the first time the community has been his hometown.

Educational Psychology Graduate Student Wins Murff Excellence Award
Fidel Zapata, a graduate student in the College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been honored with The University of Texas at Austin’s Robert Murff Excellence Award for outstanding support of career services at the university.