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Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Jill Jacobi-Vessels, assistant professor, Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Dr. Jill Jacobi-Vessels received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in early childhood education and her M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education from UofL. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Speech/Theatre and German, at Indiana University Southeast and the [...]

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Drs. Terry Scott, Chair and professor, and Amy Lingo, Assistant Chair and associate professor with the Department of Special Education, just received notification of funding of $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Education to train doctoral level students in the area of Learning and Behavior Disorders with a focus on Response To Intervention (RTI).

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Whether or not extraterrestrials exist, the very idea of their existence has impacted human society for hundreds of years.

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Dr. Blake Haselton, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, would like to announce that Ms. LeDita Howard-Hobbs has recently been appointed as Interim Director of the Minority Teacher Recruitment Project (MTRP).

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Shuttle Retirement Party a Stellar Success!

The Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium hosted a Shuttle Retirement Party featuring a live broadcast of the final launch of Atlantis, Friday, July 8. The event was attended by over 260 adults and children and the excitement of seeing the launch could hardly be contained.
Children and adults waited patiently [...]

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WHAS TV’s Terry Meiners interviewed staff from Pure Fitness Training about the Rugged Maniac Adventure Race. One of the staff featured is CEHD Exercise Physiology graduate student, Luke Wakefield.

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Major Kent Solheim received his B.S. in Occupational Training and Development in 2002 and his Master of Science in Human Resource Education in 2008 from UofL’s College of Education and Human Development. He earned a Silver Star for his bravery during Operation Volcano II, the successful mission to capture a senior leader of the infamous Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army. He saved dozens of lives during the operation, but in the process lost his right leg.

He has also been awarded a Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, a Purple Heart Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal, and an Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.

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Dr. Sam Stringfield, professor and Distinguished University Scholar, and Dr. Craig Hochbein, assistant professor, both with the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education, have been hired by the Jefferson County Public School system to advise on leading efforts to improve struggling schools.

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