PENN STATERS
A recent paper co-authored by three College of Education faculty members has won the 2001-03 Outstanding International Study Award from the American Education Research Association. David P. Baker, Gerry LeTendre and Brian Goesling authored the study, "Socioeconomic Status, School Quality and National Economic Development: A Cross-National Analysis of the 'Heyneman-Loxley Effect' on Mathematics and Science Achievement," that appeared in the August 2002 issue of the journal Comparative Education Review.
Two faculty members of the College of Education received awards from the American Counseling Association (ACA). Edwin L. Herr, distinguished professor of counselor education, and Spencer G. Niles, professor of counselor education, were honored by the association at its annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. Herr received the 2003 ACA Extended Research Award, which recognizes an ACA member who has conducted high-quality research on issues of significance to the counseling profession over the course of at least 10 years. Niles won the 2003 David K. Brooks Distinguished Mentor Award. This award honors an ACA member who has a documented record of supporting and strengthening the counseling profession as a role model and mentor; and who has an established history of professional excellence.
John Myers, professor of surgery and pediatrics, and director of pediatric and congenital cardiovascular surgery at Penn State Children's Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, was awarded Variety Clubs' 2002 Sir James Carreras Award during the annual Variety Children's LifeLine dinner at the Chicago Palmer Hilton. Since the 1980s, Myers, along with Stephen Cyran, chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Penn State Children's Hospital, has committed a portion of his practicing time to the LifeLine-sponsored missions to disadvantaged countries. Myers initially spent time practicing in Colombia and Venezuela, but for the past six years has spent seven to 10 days per year practicing in Guayaquil, Ecuador.