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Kine prof receives national honor

Dr. Emily H. Wughalter has been named the recipient of the Luther Halsey Gulick Medal from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) for 2014. Wughalter will receive her award at the AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition on April 4, during the Hall of Fame Banquet at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, in Missouri. She is a professor in the kinesiology department in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at San José State University.

Emily Wughalter

Emily Wughalter

The medal is awarded for long and distinguished service to one or more of the professions represented by AAHPERD, which is the largest professional  organization serving health and physical education professionals.

Wughalter has held multiple service and leadership positions with AAHPERD, including two terms as a board of governors representative, vice president of the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport, the president of the Research Consortium and a member of the Social Justice and Diversity Committee of AAHPERD.

Most recently she served as a member of the Visioning Committee for the unification of AAHPERD that will become the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) in April 2014.

Over a span of 33 years, Wughalter has often served simultaneously on multiple boards to advance the fields of physical education and kinesiology. She has provided leadership in the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education from which she received the Distinguished Service Award in January. She is also past president of the Western Society for Physical Education for College Women. Her sustained and significant leadership and commitment to girls and women in sport, and social justice and diversity issues is a vein that runs through all the work she does and often puts her on the margins of change.

The Luther Halsey Gulick Medal is named for Gulick (1865–1918), who spent his adult life promoting physical education instruction through his work with the YMCA and New York City public schools. Gulick is credited with having a student develop a game that could be played indoors which evolved into the now popular sport of basketball.

Emily Wughalter with her dog Ruby.

Emily Wughalter with her dog Ruby.

Kinesiology professor earns Emeritus status

Gail Evans, a former faculty member in the department of kinesiology, has been designated as an emerita professor at San José State University. Evans worked in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts for 18 years before she took an administration position on campus. She served as the associate dean of undergraduate studies from 2001-2008 before departing to take a position as the dean of undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University.

Shirley Reekie, the chair of the Kinesiology department, said it is especially exciting to have Evans as an emerita professor as she is also an alumna of the department. She received a bachelor’s of science in women’s physical education, followed by a master’s and a PhD in women’s physical education from Washington State University. She joined the faculty at SJSU in the 1983.

Upon her retirement from SFSU, SJSU President Mohammad H. Qayoumi formally conferred upon her the status of Professor Emerita in September. Emeritus professors are listed in the university catalog, have a permanent identification card and have many of the same privileges as active faculty members. The College of Applied Sciences and Arts maintains an emeritus faculty office for use when emeritus faculty from the College visit the SJSU campus.

Funding Alert: SJSU Research Foundation Office of Sponsored Programs – Information Services

by SJSU Research Foundation Office of Sponsored Programs

SJSU Research Foundation Office of Sponsored Programs – Information Services

Sponsor: USDE – Department of Education
Deadline: 4/12/2013
Deadline Note: N/A
Program Title: Carol M. White Physical Education Program
URL: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-02-26/pdf/2013-04414.pdf, http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=TnTLRnFG! xKphTCyDMKsKnw3n03BCfQvw9Tz2pTVcPvNJ3q0nsQWV!-2129049045?oppId=222674&mode=VIEW

Funding Description:
Notice seeking applications to initiate, expand, and improve physical education for students in grades K-12. Grant recipients must implement programs that help students make progress toward meeting State physical education standards.

This funding opportunity has been categorized under the following keywords:
Elementary or Secondary Education
Health Care
Physical Education
K-12
High School Education
Middle School Education
Wellness
Nutrition or Dietetics
Health and Safety Education !
Secondary Education
Health Literacy
Elementary Education

If you cannot access the URL guidelines above, please reply to this email or call 924-1437. Please reference Funding Alert #21700 in your reply.

If you are interested in applying to this program, please contact your Sponsored Programs Manager, Angela Mercado , at 408-924-1400 .

Disclaimer Statement: SJSURF Funding Alerts are provided for informational purposes to assist with faculty proposal plans. Opportunities are chosen from a larger pool of funding opportunities and are not intended to be all encompassing. Every effort is made to ensure that information is! accurate and timely. Please note, however, that this information is subject to change by the sponsors without notice and that posted deadlines may be imminent.