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Highlights 
March 2008
- First Opinions—Second Reactions: Reviews of Recent Children’s and Young Adult Literature is a new electronic journal published by Purdue University Press and co-edited by Professors Janet Alsup and Jill May. The journal is designed as a forum for teachers, scholars, and students to learn about new books and integrate them into their curricula or scholarly works. The journal publishes not only reviews of books for children and young adults, but also the "reactions" of teachers and scholars to these reviews after the materials have been introduced to students at various instructional levels. Thus, the journal seeks to create a dialogue among those who are interested in the study and classroom teaching of children’s and adolescent literature. Each issue revolves around a topic or issue relevant to contemporary children’s and young adult literature. The inaugural issue of First Opinions—Second Reactions is available online at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/fosr/.
September 2007
- Professor Brenda Capobianco has been awarded a three-year grant of nearly a half a million dollars from the Research on Gender on Science and Engineering program of the National Science Foundation to study the perceptions of engineering and development of identity among young students, particularly girls, interacting with engineering-based learning activities.
October 2006
- Professors Jennifer Richardson and Peg Ertmer have been awarded three-year grant of nearly a half a million dollars from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) program of the U.S. Department of Education to study the use of peer feedback in online discussions in the context of both education and engineering courses.
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