Meadows Center Conference Looks at 21st Century Teaching Skills
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk recently hosted a "Preparing Preservice Teachers for 21st Century Teaching" conference for faculty in Texas colleges of education. The conference was designed to help faculty better equip future teachers to meet the TCCRS requirements.

Maloch Wins Massey Award, University's Top Honor for Teachers of Teachers
Dr. Beth Maloch, an associate professor in the College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected as this year's recipient of the Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education.

LTC Creates Education Visualization Lab to Help COE Researchers Analyze Large Datasets
The visual analysis of data is quickly becoming an indispensable tool in educational research. Although visual data analysis is well established in the natural sciences, recent developments, such as the collection of massive amounts of student data and large scale textual and computer logging analyses, have made its use applicable to many kinds of educational research.

Community College Leadership Program Well-Represented in New National Commission
Dr. Kay McClenney, executive director of the College of Education's Center for Community College Student Engagement, has been named co-chair of the newly created 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges.

Loukas Gets $266,000 to Help Healthcare Providers Reduce Cancer Deaths
Dr. Alexandra Loukas has been awarded a $266,920 grant from the Cancer Prevention Institute of Texas. The funds will be used to teach healthcare providers how to use a new evidence-based electronic health records tool that can reduce patients' tobacco use.

Getting Back in the Game: Spinal Cord Injury Victims Enjoy Better Health
Research from The University of Texas at Austin has led to major technological and pharmaceutical advances over the past decade which are making it possible for spinal cord injury patients to live lives closer to normal than ever before.

New Museum, Muscle and Grace Photo Exhibit Open at Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
The largest physical culture archive in the world, The University of Texas at Austin's H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, has announced the opening of its Joe and Betty Weider Museum of Physical Culture, featuring an inaugural exhibition of around 700 photos from the center's holdings.

Steinhardt and Brown Recognized By UT System for Teaching Excellence
College of Education faculty members Dr. Anthony Brown and Dr. Mary Steinhardt have been honored with the prestigious, UT System-wide 2011 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.

Texas Regional Collaboratives Conference Focuses on Leveraging Partnerships for Teacher Success
Transformational. Inspiring. Energizing. Amazing. Highly effective. You'll hear at least one of these words or phrases during any conversation about the Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching - and they were used in abundance at this year's 17th annual TRC conference.

Latino Male Symposium Spotlights Education Crisis in Rapidly Growing Demographic
The symposium was convened to address the dearth of Latino males who are completing high school and pursuing university degrees even though Hispanics make up 38 percent of the Texas population..