EHHD Awards and Honors Archive
2022-2023 EHHD Outstanding Faculty and Staff

Brianna Routh
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Deborah Rinio
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Karie Orendorff
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Roland Ebel
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Sweeney Windchief
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Tena Versland
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Elizabeth Bird
Project Development & Grants Specialist
Outstanding Staff

Jamie O'Callaghan
Post Baccalaureate Licensure Specialist & Academic and Student Services Advisor, Field Placement & Licensure
Outstanding Staff
2022-2023 External Faculty Awards

Suzanne Held
Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
National Rural Health Day 2022 Community Star - National Organization of National State Offices of Rural Health

Karie Orendorff
Associate Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
SHAPE America's Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) Innovative Paper Award - Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America

Stephanie Wilson & Mary Miles
Graduate Student & Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award - Nutrition Research journal

Sarah Wilson
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Education
NREA Achievement Award - National Rural Education Association
2022-2023 EHHD Selected Publications
Selected from scholarly journal articles published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
Department of Education
Title |
Journal |
Authors (*= EHHD faculty) |
“Step Outside”: A Portrait of an Exemplary Rural K-8 Science Educator |
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 60:544-567 |
Hammack, RJ* Stanton, C* Boyle, J |
Strength in Numbers: The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research in Rural Education |
Theory and Practice in Rural Education, 12(1)105-115 |
Davis, L* Buchanan |
Planning Literacy Curriculum Development: Critical Reflections |
Association for the Teaching of English Grammar |
Ellsworth, A |
Rurally motivated? How English teachers negotiate rural sense of belonging |
English Education 54(3):196-218 |
Olsen, AW Long, D Olsen, KW* Fassbender, WJ |
Building Primary Preservice Teachers’ Identity as Engineering Educators |
Education Sciences, 637(12) |
Lux, N* Hammack, RJ* Wiehe, B (graduate student) Gannon, P |
Department of Health & Human Development
Title |
Journal |
Authors (*= EHHD faculty) |
A Model of Successful Transitions from Home to Long-Term Community: A grounded theory study |
HSOA Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 9(163) |
Koltz, DJ* |
Impact of long-term lentil consumption on insulin resistance, satiety, and gastrointestinal symptoms – A randomized clinical trial |
Nutrition Research, 106 |
Wilson, SMG (graduate student) Peterson, EJ (graduate student) Gaston, ME* Kuo, WY* Miles, MP* |
Perceived Stress, Stressors, and Preferred Stress Management Strategies among Western Agricultural Producers |
Journal of Rural Mental Health |
Grocke, MU* Brennan, AL* Freeman, B Weas, H (graduate student) Gutheil, J (graduate student) Stallones, L McMoran, D |
The Importance of the Food System for Rural Vitality and Livelihoods In the US Northern Great Plains |
Journal of Rural and Community Development,18(1):93-117 |
Ebel, R* Thornton, A |
The Impact of Trayless Dining Implementation on University Diners’ Satisfaction, Food Selection, Consumption, and Waste Behaviors |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute/Sustainability 14(24):16669 |
Zhang, W* Kwon, J
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2021-2022 EHHD Outstanding Faculty and Staff Awards

Christine Stanton
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Jim Becker
Associate Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Lauren Davis
Assistant Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Michelle Grocke-Dewey
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Nick Lux
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Outstanding Faculty

Sunny Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Faculty

Micki MacGregor
Data & Research Analyst, Department of Education
Outstanding Employee

Milana Lazetich
Graduate Academic Services Coordinator, Department of Health & Human Development
Outstanding Employee

Suzi Taylor
Director, Science Math Resource Center
Outstanding Employee

Cyndi Meldahl
Academic Advisor, Department of Education Academic Advising Center
Career Celebration Recognition

Joyce Herbeck
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Career Celebration Recognition

Robert Carson
Professor, Department of Education
Career Celebration Recognition
2021-2022 EHHD External Faculty Awards

Jayne Downey
Professor, Department of Education
Career Achievement Award - American Educational Research Association, Rural Education Special Interest Group

Wan-Yuan Kuo
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
New Innovator Award - Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Brianna Routh
Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Human Development
Mary B Wells Memorial Diversity Award - National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences
Innovation Award - National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences
2021-2022 EHHD Selected Publications
Selected from scholarly journal articles published between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022.
Department of Education
Title |
Journal |
Authors (*= EHHD faculty) |
Choosing a rural teaching position: The importance of relationships and field experiences |
Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 32(3):38-52 |
Versland, T* Wilson, S* Downey, J* |
Considering Indigenous Research Methodologies: Bicultural Accountability and the Protection of Community Held Knowledge |
Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2)151-163 |
Windchief, S* Cummins, JD*
|
Digital Rural Community Walks: Building Preservice Teachers’ Rural Engagement through Technology Integration |
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 30(2)135-143 |
Lux, N* Downey, J* Luebeck, J Hicks, J* |
Fifth Grade Chinese and U.S. Students' Division Problem Posing: A Small-Scale Study |
Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 15 (Special Issue):85-97 |
Luo, F* Yu, Y (graduate student) Meyerink, M (graduate student) Burgal, C (graduate student)
|
Poverty and Middle Level Achievement in a Common Core State: What Are We Missing? |
Middle Grades Review |
Dotson, L*
|
Department of Health & Human Development
Title |
Journal |
Authors (*= EHHD faculty) |
#Alonetogether: An exploratory study of social media use at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic |
The Journal of Social Media in Society, 11(1):27-45 |
Vaterlaus, JM* Patten, EV Spruance, L
|
“Press on, continue on”: Rural parents’ experiences of transitions within early intervention. |
Rural Special Education Quarterly, 41(4):197-210 |
Decker, KB* Feigel, AJ (graduate student) Foster, TD Kepl, RL (undergraduate student)
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An ecological approach to understanding women’s reproductive health and pregnancy decision making in Greenland |
Health & Place, 77 |
Rink, EL* Peterson, M (graduate student)
|
Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: A person-centered analysis |
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy |
Orendorff, KL* Webster, C Mindrila, D Cunningham, KMW Doutis, P Dauenhauer, B Stodden, DF |
Developing culturally acceptable peanut nutrition bars with smallholder women farmers in Kaffrine, Senegal using response surface methodology |
Journal of Food Science |
Allan, E (graduate student) Ndiaye, A Raber, E (undergraduate student) Song, M Kuo, WY* |
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