Faculty News

Dr. Michelle Pope, Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, has been selected to serve as a Presidential Fellow for 2007-2008.  Dr. Pope will serve as a member of the President's Cabinet and will assist President Trauth with special projects.

Dr. Steve Furney, who received this year’s campus-wide Presidential Award for Service.  We are proud of Steve’s service accomplishments at the department, college, and campus levels, as well as within his profession.  

Paul Paese and David Wiley, who will be serving as presidents during 2007-2008, of two national professional organizations, the Association for Teacher Educators (ATE) and the American School Health Association respectively.  We are proud of their leadership roles and activities, and wish them much success in these endeavors.

Dr. David Wiley represented the Centers for Disease Control (Division of Adolescent and School Health) at the HIV Prevention Education meeting in Washington, D.C. last November.  Dr. Wiley met with staff members from Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s staff to discuss school health issues in Texas and Texas State University issues.

During the Spring 2007 semester, Dr. Bob Pankey will be working three days a week at the Human Performance Gait Lab with the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.  The gait lab is located at the Veterans Hospital next to the UYHSCSA.  Dr. Pankey will be involved in research on gait analysis with veterans returning from the war and fitting them with proper prosthetic devices for ambulation and recreation use and will be studying the effects of stochastic resonance (mechanical vibration) to improve balance, circulation and flexibility.  Dr. Pankey plans to continue this research in the Jowers Biomechanics lab with representative faculty in the HPER and Physical Therapy Departments.

The U. S. Track and Field Association, the national governing organization for track and field in the United States, has announced that Dr. Jack Ransone, Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, has been selected as the Head Athletic Trainer for the IAFF World Cross Country Championship.  Dr. Ransone has significant experience serving the USATF national team at the 2004 Olympic Games, 2003 Pan American Games and the 2001 World Indoor Championships.  The 35^th World Cross Country Championships will be celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday, March 24, 2007.

Faculty Research Fellowships Awarded to Dr. Dawn Lantero and Dr. Tinker Murray for 2006/2007.  The Division of Educational Research has initiated the Faculty Research Fellows Program for academic year 2006/2007 with awards to Dr. Dawn Lantero and Dr. Tinker Murray from the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. The program is designed to allow faculty to focus intensely on their research endeavors for one semester by affording them financially supported release time from one academic course.