Publications

Chuck Fountaine, professor and head of the Department of Applied Human Sciences, writes the "Take Ten" column for the American College of Sports Medicine Health & Fitness Journal. He published the following three columns throughout the summer and fall semesters:

• Ten Exercise Snacks
• Ten Things Artificial Intelligence Thinks Health and Fitness Professionals Should Know
• Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the Fitness Enthusiast

Jessica Hanson, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, and Rebecca Gilbertson, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, published an article with undergraduate student Amy Harris and community partners from North Dakota and South Dakota titled "Feasibility and acceptability of using ecological momentary assessments to evaluate alcohol use with American Indian women."

Jessica Hanson, an associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, had three publications as a result of projects with collaborators at Washington State University and the University of Colorado.

• "Sorry for laughing, but it’s scary: Humor and silence in discussions of colorectal cancer with urban American Indians," in BMC Cancer.
• "The use of patient navigation to transition detoxification patients to substance use treatment in the Alaska Interior," in Public Health in Practice.
• "Alcohol consumption and pregnancy in American Indian and Alaska Native women: A scoping review of the literature," in Women's Health.

Madeline Harms, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology published the article "Disrupting links between poverty, chronic stress, and educational inequality" in npj Science of Learning.

Jolene Hyppa-Martin, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, collaborated with researchers at the Alfred I duPont Hospital in Wilmington, DE, and UMD graduate students Jaclyn Friese and Corinne Schmidt, to publish a study titled "A large-scale comparison of two voice synthesis techniques on intelligibility, naturalness, preferences, and attitudes toward voices banked by individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."

Jolene Hyppa-Martin, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, collaborated with researchers at Nanyang Technological University Singapore to develop Singaporean-accented English synthetic voices and published a study titled "Voice banking to support individuals who use speech-generating devices: development and evaluation of Singaporean-accented English synthetic voices and a Singapore Colloquial English recording inventory."

Amy Smallwood, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, published “Primary Encounters: Relational Ontology and Ecoflourishing,” in Ecoflourishing and Virtue: Multidisciplinary Christian Perspectives. 

Michael Young, assistant professor in the Department of Education, and colleagues published "The 2022-2023 Whippoorwill Award: Complex Representations of Rural Identities and Places" in The Rural Educator.

Grants

Elizabeth Y. S. Boileau, assistant professor for the Department of Applied Human Sciences, 2023 EVCAA Research and Scholarship Grant for $25,000 titled "Community-Engaged Phytoremediation to Remove Toxic Mercury from the St. Louis River." This is an interdisciplinary research team working together to address the issue of local mercury contamination through the engagement of community members and outreach activities. 

Jessica Hanson, associate professor for the Department of Applied Human Sciences, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health titled "Use of Ecological Momentary Assessments to Evaluate Drinking in Native Women." Associate Professors Amy Versnik Nowak (public health) and Rebecca Gilbertson (psychology) are co-investigators on this project. This is a 3-year, $381,149 grant focused on both collecting alcohol data through ecological momentary assessment and also engaging undergraduate students in the research process, including dissemination of results.

Mark Zmudy, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, received a $13,263 MPACT 2025 Education grant from the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) titled, "Decolonizing and Indigenizing Nature Based Outdoor Education Curricula: Fostering Student Success, Community, and Sense of Belonging." As part of the grant, Zmudy will work with American Indian Learning Resource Center staff and students. The grant will also enable a research project and an update of the curriculum in the Environmental & Outdoor Education program. 

Awards

CEHSP Staff Award - Fall 2023
Recognizes excellence in leadership on the job, customer service, and quality of service.

• Jill Engstrom, Children's Place
• Shelby Swanson, Accreditation, Licensure, & Field Experience

Presentations

Elizabeth Y. S. Boileau, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, presented, "Documenting non-human voices in research: A discussion of research methods for multispecies studies with young children in outdoor contexts," for  KPU WIld spaces at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada in November

Elizabeth Y. S. Boileau, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences; Matti Erpestad, Instructor for the Department of Applied Human Sciences and Environmental & Outdoor Education Undergraduate Program Coordinator; and Mark Zmudy, associate professor for the Department of Applied Human Sciences presented at the Symposium on Experiential Education Research, "Hey neighbour, why do our programs matter? Redesigning outdoor experiential curricula for diverse learners?," Association for Experiential Education, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Matt Dingler,  assistant professor in the Department of Education, presented “You Can’t Unsee the Violence: A Critical Case Study of Critical Becoming in a Red State" at the College and University Faculty Assembly Annual Conference in Nashville, TN in November.

Jessica Hanson, associate professor of public health, gave an oral presentation on “The Native Choices Intervention to Reduce Risk for Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies: Recruitment and Modifications during COVID” at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

Jessica Hanson and Amy Versnik Nowak, associate professors in the public health program, presented a poster with undergraduate student Makenzie Clough focused on “Community engagement with tribal partners to develop health communication” at the Minnesota Society for Public Health Educators Annual Conference in Duluth.

Jolene Hyppa-Martin, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders co-authored 5 presentations with students that were presented in Boston MA at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention in November:

•   "Student Perspectives: How, When (and Whether) CSD Programs Should Introduce Essential Functions" with UROP recipient Grace Burski. 
• "Whose Perspectives are Missing from the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evidence Base? Implications for Clinicians, Researchers, and Journals" with graduate student Jennifer Maki.
•  "Live Closed Captions in Telepractice: What Speech-Language Pathologists Need to Know to Meet Accessibility Guidelines" with graduate student Nicole Pheifer.
• "Practical Augmentative and Alternative Communication Therapy Implications of Social Validity & Participant Diversity in AAC Intervention Studies " with graduate students Hannah Lauer and Taylor Beres.
• "Whose Attitude Was It? Considering Intersectionality and Attitudes Directed Toward Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication" with graduate students Clara Olson, Annika Dubbs, and Paige Jansen, and clinical supervisor Nena Johnson

Jolene Hyppa-Martin, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders co-authored a presentation with UMD Associate Professor of Graphic Design John O'Neill and CSD graduate student Nicole Pheifer "Accessibility Challenges for People with Dysarthria in the Era of Voice Artificial Intelligence: Insights and Solutions for UX Designers" presented at the SECAC National Conference in Richmond VA in October. 

Jolene Hyppa-Martin co-presented the "7th Annual Augmentative and Alternative Communication Town Hall Meeting" at the national Closing the Gap Conference in October in Bloomington, MN, with Deanna Morrow of St Paul Public Schools, non-speaking autistic self-advocate and award-winning journalist Donnie TC Denome, and non-speaking autistic self-advocate and educator Cole Sorenson.

Amy Smallwood, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, presented "Primary Encounters: A conceptual model of place relations in outdoor adventure education," at the Symposium on Experiential Education Research, International Association for Experiential Education Conference in Madison, WI in November.

Erin Wojciechowski, instructor for the Department of Social Work, presented at the St. Louis County Health and Human Services Conference in Fall 2023. The presentation was titled "Courageous Leadership: How Social Work Shows Up In Public Office."

Michael Young, assistant professor in the Department of Education, presented "Bust the Branding: Unmasking the Networks that Shape Book Bans and the Science of Reading," as part of the Censorship Roundtable (Banned in the USA: Lighting a Fire for Reading and Not to Books), at the 2023 National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Columbus, OH.

Additional Accomplishments

Chuck Fountaine, professor and department head for the Department of Applied Human Sciences, taught "Resistance Training for Seniors" in the fall session for the UMD University for Seniors program. He was assisted by Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences students Grace Thornton, Julia Shaw, Hunter Erickson, Kendal Davis, Jeff Tran, Mitch Alfson, and Ben Long.