OCTOBER 29, 1999
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THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA OCTOBER 29, 1999 |
Dr. Wolff-Michael Roth (curriculum and instruction) will receive the outstanding science educator award of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. The award is given to increase awareness of individual contributions and to encourage continued leadership of individuals in their first 10 years as science teacher educators. It consists of a plaque, $1,000, and a tribute in the awards issue of the Journal of Science Teacher Education. Recipients are chosen based on their competency in teaching, development of science teacher education programs, research activities, science curricula development, leadership in science education, and leadership outside of science education. Roth will pick up the award at the organization’s annual meeting in Akron, Ohio, in January. Dr. Jan Storch, director of UVic’s school of nursing, has been named president of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research for a two-year term. She has served on the council, which advances the promotion and protection of the well-being of human participants in research, for six years. Council jurisdiction extends over all of the country’s major research bodies -- the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Medical Research Council, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The organization also fosters high ethical standards for the conduct of research involving humans. From overseas comes word that UVic writing alumnus Steve Lundin (BFA ’88) has signed a multi-book deal with publishing house Bantam U.K. The nine-year, nine-book contract is worth $1.6 million. The contract followed positive reviews of his fantasy novel Gardens of the Moon (written under the pen-name Steven Erikson), recently released in the U.K. He’s been living in Britain for the past three-and-a-half years and has published four novels and short story collections. He began the first part of his novel This River Awakens during fiction workshops at UVic.
Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater (psychology) has won this year’s distinguished alumni award from the teacher’s college of Columbia University where she completed her PhD and conducted post-doctoral work. Leadbeater is chair of UVic’s youth and society research unit and specializes in research involving the risk factors for adolescent problem behaviour, teenage pregnancy and adolescent depression. Her new book, Growing Up Fast: Transitions to Early Adulthood of Inner City Adolescent Mothers, will be published next year.