Dr. Mary Jane Bradley, Cindy Delece Hinson, and Sandra Hawkins, Professional Education Programs Office, and Dr. Audrey Bowser, Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Special Education, presented at The Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia February 2013. The presentations were entitled Ensuring Life-Long Learning: Holding Teacher Candidates Accountable in an “Interconnected and Highly Diverse” Classroom and Teacher Candidates’ Career Readiness: What If They Are Not Ready?

Dr. Audrey Bowser, Educational Leadership and Special Education, and Dr. Mary Jane Bradley and Cindy Delece Hinson, Professional Education Programs Office, presented at The Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in in Atlanta, Georgia February 2013. The presentation was entitled Using Standards-Based Assessment to Ensure Effective Teacher/Candidates’ Performance.

Dr. Julie Grady presented Using Computer Simulations to Support Science Learning at the 2012 Arkansas Curriculum Conference; provided a series of workshops about science lab safety for middle and high school teachers and administrators; engaged mid-level science teachers in Using

Legos to Support Science Learning about Simple Machines; supported mid-level science teachers as they developed project-based learning experiences for their students, and facilitated a blended 30-hour workshop for elementary science teachers about scientific inquiry, making student thinking visible, and creating a coherent science content storyline.

Dr. Amy Pearce, Psychology and Counseling, along with student contributors, J.M. Lynch, F. Odorcyk and S. Halder presented preferences and estrous cycling during exposure to a high concentration of oral nicotine by the multiple bottle approach at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Social at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, October 15, 2012, New Orleans, LA.

Dr. Amy Pearce, Psychology and Counseling, along with student contributors, S. Halder and S. Trauth presented Long term oral nicotine exposure is associated with changes in sera cotinine and uterine histology but not the estrous cycle in female rats at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, October 14, 2012, New Orleans, LA.