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Congratulations to Dr. Diana Piccolo. she was selected to win the Phil Gramm graduate student research award. The award comes with $5K and the prestige of being given the award by the first hispanic-woman president in A&M history. The fellowship recognizes completed graduate student research, publications, and presentations. Additionally, she earned her doctoral degree in May 2008.
Congratulations to Ms. Xi Chen who presented at the TAMU Student Research Week (March 24-28, 2008; http://srw.tamu.edu/ ), and won the First Place Prize of Taxonomy Level Competition for the paper, "Instructional Coherence in a Chinese Mathematics Classroom".
Congratulations to Ms. Z. Ebrar Yetkiner was selected to attend the May 2008 International Studies database training seminar, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. They received 140 high quality applications for the 16 participant slots available for the seminar. The seminar will be held Wednesday, May 21, 2008 through Friday, May 23, 2008, at the Academy for Educational Development, in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations to Mr. Rongjin Huang, who has been invited to give a talk at a NSF-supported international workshop on mathematics and science education to be held in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from June 22-27, 2008. The talk is titled "Developing Mathematics Teachers' Expertise with Apprenticeship Practices and Professional Promotion System as Contexts".
ICME, the International Congress on Mathematical Education, in its eleventh edition is to be held in Mexico. ICME is held every four years. With expected participants from 100 countries all over the world, the ICME aims to present the current states and trends in mathematics education research and in the practice of mathematics teaching at all levels. Drs. Janie Schielack and Yeping Li have been invited by the International Program Committee to co-chair a Discussion Group on Mathematics Curriculum for the ICME-11. http://icme11.org/
Dr. Mary Margaret Capraro won President Elect 2008 for the Southwest Educational Research Association.
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