Faculty members of the College of Human Development and Education recently published research or will make presentations.
Sherri Nordstrom Stastny, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, will present “Eating for Your Eyes” at the North Dakota Dietetic Association meeting in Fargo on April 22. She also will present “Sports Nutrition” at the Northwest Dietetic Association meeting in Moorhead on March 29.
In addition, Nordstrom Stastny had several abstracts and posters accepted for presentation during the spring, including “Eating for Your Eyes” at United for Sight at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., on April 18; “Outcomes of Eating for Your Eyes Curriculum in North Dakota Communities” at the Aging in America conference in Las Vegas on March 15; “Meet the Parents Curriculum Increases Student Learning in Meal Planning in Food Selection Class” for the Food Educators Network in Las Vegas on Feb. 14; and “Student Analysis of Published Restaurant Nutrition Information and Student Learning” for the Food Educators Learning Community in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 28.
Anita Welch, assistant professor in the School of Education, will present “Blood, Sweat and Gears: How the FIRST Robotics Competitions Effects Attitudes Toward Science” at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching conference in April and “FIRST: Changing Attitudes…Changing the Future” at the National Science Teachers Association conference in March. She also had a $4,991 grant proposal, titled “Sharing FIRST Web site Evaluation,” accepted. The study will entail an online qualitative and quantitative analysis of the usefulness of a Web site designed for high school FIRST robotics teams.
Greg Sanders, associate dean, and former student Puspa Panda wrote a book chapter titled “Distant Relations Between Migrant Adult Children and Their Elderly Parents” that was published in “Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families.”
Julie Garden-Robinson, associate professor and food nutrition specialist, has become a nutrition and health columnist for “Connections for Women,” an online women’s magazine headquartered in Tucson, Ariz. To subscribe to the free magazine, visit www.connectionsforwomen.com.