IPT NEWS

* At the 4th Annual COEN Awards ceremony, IPT graduate assistant Shelley Berg was awarded an 'Honorary Materials Scientist' award for developing a series of e-learning tutorials for the Materials Science and Engineering department.

*Don Winiecki, IPT associate professor and adjunct professor of Sociology, has authored a chapter "Using Ethnographic Forms of Research to Study the Social World and To Make Social Theories Studyable" to appear in an upcoming collection titled "Contemporary Studies in Ethnography" to be published by Nova Science Publishers.

*Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung, IPT associate professor, has published a textbook titled Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology, by HRD Press.

*IPT Adjunct faculty member Diane Gayeski was the recipient of ISPI's 2008 Thomas Gilbert Award for Professional Achievement. Dr. Gayeski also presented a Masters Series at the 2008 annual Performance Improvement conference on The Workforce of the Future.

* IPT Associate Professor Donald Winiecki presented his papers, The expert witness and courtroom discourse: A case of applying both micro and macro forms of discourse analysis and An ethnostatistical analysis of performance measurement at the 2008 meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) in Portland, OR.

*IPT student Kevin Taylor and IPT faculty member Yonnie Chyung presented "The Implications of 3D virtual environments on Employee Training & Development" at the 2008 Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Convention held in Boise, ID.

* Four IPT faculty and seven students presented at the 2008 ISPI conference. See photo album.

* Three IPT alumni and one student were the recipients of a 2008 ISPI Award of Excellence. Read more.