Research Roundup: Oct. 20, 2006
Staff from the Child and Family Research Center presented workshops at Region IX Head Start Association’s 23rd Annual Professional Development Conference in Reno on October 10, 2006. Nevada Head Start Association hosted a day of training for Head Start and Early Head Start staff from Nevada, California, and Arizona.
Stephanie Wyatt and Pam Young, Early Head Start home visitors, presented an Early Head Start Family Development Matrix workshop. The Family Development Matrix, a strengths-based tool rather than a deficit-based model, allows teachers and home visitors in the Early Head Start program to identify family strengths from which to start addressing needs.
Marci Behmaram, Campus Child Care Connections Program Coordinator, presented two sessions of Challenging Behaviors, intended for Early Care and Education teachers and program administrators. Her presentations were based on the national Positive Behavior Support program that emphasizes proactive strategies for defining and supporting appropriate child behaviors and classroom environments.
Jenny Millage, Comstock 2-year old teacher, and Geri Thweatt, Sarah Fleischmann infant teacher, offered their experience and observations on the ability of infants and toddlers to value fine art materials, to distinguish them from everyday art activities, and to use the fine art materials appropriately over time. Their classroom practices demonstrate that very young children respect and pursue important topics, apply emerging skills, and maintain interest in meaningful long-term projects.
Bill Thornton , Gary Peltier and doctoral candidate Ricky Medina of the Education Leadership department have had an article accepted for publication in The Clearing House. The article is titled “Reducing the Special Education Teacher Shortage.”
Gary Haynes, professor of anthropology, authored the following papers:
Possible Evidence for Early Woodland Burning by Agropastoralists in Northwestern Zimbabwe at 2,000 years ago. In the journal Nyame Akuma 64:72-77.
Las acumulaciones modernas de huesos de elefante como modelo para interpreter Ambrona y otras areas con fauna fosil a orillas del agua [Modern Elephant-Bone Assemblages as Models for Interpreting Ambrona and Other Fossil Waterside Deathsites], a chapter in the book edited by M. Santonja and A. Pérez Gonzalez, Los yacimientos paleoliticos de Ambrona y Torralba (Soria). Published in the museum series Zona Arqueológicas Numero 5: 154-174, Alcala de Henares, Museo Arqueológico Regional (Madrid).
Unearthing Human Societies in a Changing Natural World [Review of Environmental Archaeology by N. Branch, M. Canti, P. Clark, and C. Turney]. Published in the journal Boreas 34: 518-519.
Mammoth Landscapes: Good Country for Hunter-Gatherers. Published in the collection edited by J. Storer, Proceedings of the 3rd International Mammoth Conference, 23-26 May, 2003, Dawson City, Yukon, in the journal Quaternary International 142-143: 20-29.
Haynes also presented the paper, A Review of Explanations for America’s Late Pleistocene Extinctions, with Special Attention given to Mammoths and Mastodons, Radiocarbon Doubletalk, and Biased Argumentation, at the 2nd International World of Elephants Congress, 21-25 September, 2005, Hot Springs, South Dakota.
In addition, Haynes contributed the following book chapter:
Rather Odd Detective Stories: A View of Some Actualistic and Taphonomic Trends in Paleoindian Studies. Chapter 3 in a book edited by T. Pickering, K. Schick, and N. Toth, African Taphonomy: A Tribute to the Career of C. K. Bob Brain. Published by Stone Age Institute (Indiana University) Press.
John Louie, professor of seismology, recently published two peer-reviewed articles he co-authored with his graduate students in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, and others from Lawrence Livermore Lab, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and New Mexico Tech, in the June 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
These articles describe the first measurements of soil susceptibility to earthquake shaking ever carried out along detailed transects, across the Las Vegas and Los Angeles urban areas. This research was sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, under USGS award numbers 03HQGR006D and 05HQGR0078; and by the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the auspices of the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48:
Weston A. Thelen, Matthew Clark, Christopher T. Lopez, Chris Loughner, Hyunmee Park, James B. Scott, Shane B. Smith, Bob Greschke, and John N. Louie, 2006, A transect of 200 shallow shear velocity profiles across the Los Angeles Basin: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 96, no. 3 (June), pp. 1055-1067, doi: 10.1785/0120040093.
James B. Scott, Tiana Rasmussen, Barbara Luke, Wanda Taylor, J. L.
Wagoner, Shane B. Smith, and John N. Louie, 2006, Shallow shear velocity and seismic microzonation of the urban Las Vegas, Nevada
basin: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 96, no. 3 (June), pp. 1068-1077,
doi: 10.1785/0120050044.
Michael Bloch, associate professor of internal medicine, has authored the following:
Bloch MJ, Basile J., Clinical Insights into the Diagnosis and Management of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Disease, Current Atherosclerosis Reports, September, 2006
Bloch MJ, Basile J., Analysis of Recent Papers in Hypertension,
Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Monthly Column, 2004-present:
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6(8); 2004: 466-468.
6(9); 2004: 530-531.
6(10); 2004: 598-600.
6(11); 2004: 657-660.
6(12); 2004: 722-724.
7(1); 2005: 54-58.
7(2); 2005: 136-140.
7(3); 2005: 183-187.
7(4); 2005: 252-253.
7(5); 2005: 313-316.
7(6); 2005: 372-375.
7(7); 2005: 430-432.
7(8); 2005: 489-492.
7(9); 2005: 555-557.
7(10); 2005: 622-625.
7(11); 2005: 688-670.
7(12); 2005: 751-754.
8(1); 2006: 65-66.
8(2); 2006: 142-144
8(3); 2006: 224-227
8(4): 2006: 299-302
Book Chapters:
Bloch MJ, Basile J. Epigastric/Abdominal Bruits, Mohler ER, Townsend RR, ed. Advanced Therapy in Hypertension and Vascular Disease, Hamilton, ON: BC Decker, Inc, 2006
Melanie Robbins, editor of Our Workplace, can be reached at mrobbins@unr.edu.
