by kaylasharp | Feb 2, 2016 | Alumni Accolades, Alumni Notes, Awards, Newsmakers
A pair of College of Education alumni have been selected for prestigious national honors from the Council for Exceptional Children for their outstanding research. Brian Boyd won the 2016 Distinguished Early Career Research Award and recent graduate Elizabeth Bettini...
by kaylasharp | Jan 25, 2016 | Alumni Accolades, Awards, Newsmakers, Press Releases
A UF College of Education Ph.D. candidate is in the national education spotlight for leading a Pinellas County elementary school honored for having the nation’s top U.S. STEM program. Kristy Moody, principal of Jamerson Elementary in Pinellas County, accepted the STEM...
by kaylasharp | Apr 22, 2015 | Alumni Accolades, Alumni Notes, Newsmakers, Research News
Xavier J. Monroe, a 2013 UF graduate, belongs on a UFTeach student recruitment poster. And that’s even before he was awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM education and learning research recently from the National Science Foundation. While Monroe...
by kaylasharp | Apr 17, 2015 | Alumni Accolades, Alumni Notes, Newsmakers
The University of Florida has selected noted teacher education innovator Renee Tipton Clift, a 1972 graduate of the UF College of Education, to receive its 2015 UF Distinguished Alumni Award. Clift, a professor and dean at the University of Arizona College of...
by kaylasharp | Feb 5, 2015 | Alumni Accolades, Alumni Notes, Newsmakers
David Fields, a 2008 M.Ed. graduate in social studies education, has been named the Clay County (Fla.) School District’s Teacher of the Year. Fields has been teaching advanced placement U.S. history and American government at Orange Park High School for the past seven...
by kaylasharp | Jan 9, 2015 | Alumni Accolades, Awards, Faculty Laurels, Newsmakers, Student Laurels
College of Education alumna Amber Benedict (PhD ‘14, special education) will head for San Diego this spring to receive the prestigious Student Research Award for Qualitative Design from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Research. The council is the...
