Several faculty and staff members of the College of Health and Human Development will be honored for their outstanding contributions and performance during an Oct. 18 ceremony in The Nittany Lion Inn, University Park. Those receiving awards are:
Bruce M. Broadbent will receive the 1999 Commonwealth Faculty Achievement Award.
Broadbent, assistant professor of kinesiology at Penn State York and head of the Division of Health and Human Development for the Commonwealth College, is being recognized for the unique contributions he has made to both the college and the campus community. This award recognizes excellence in teaching, advising and service. It is awarded this year in memory of Wesley Allen Olsen, who was a faculty member at Penn State Abington for more than 35 years.
Broadbent received his bachelor of science degree in health and physical education from Penn State in 1965 and his master's degree in physical education from the University of Arizona in 1966. He earned his Ph.D. in kinesiology from the University of Maryland in 1984.
Broadbent, who began his Penn State career in 1967 at Penn State York, has taught a wide range of health education and kinesiology courses, served as athletic director for more than 22 years and was the kinesiology coordinator at the campus. He developed and implemented the physical education, intramural and varsity sports programs at the campus.
Cleo A. Campbell, administrative assistant in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, will receive the Carol Clark Ford Staff Achievement Award which recognizes outstanding achievement by a staff member who "makes it easier for others to accomplish their objectives effectively and efficiently."
Campbell began her career at Penn State in 1974 as a part-time secretary in the Department of Public Information where she worked for three years. In 1977, she joined the Department of Individual and Family Studies -- now called the Department of Human Development and Family Studies -- where she served as multi-media project secretary and undergraduate secretary. She was promoted to head secretary in the Individual and Family Consultation Center in the department.
In 1983, Campbell became secretary to the head of the Department of Individual and Family Studies, and later served as administrative aide to the dean of the College of Health and Human Development from 1987 to 1992. In her current position, Campbell's responsibilities include serving as the human resources representative for the department, coordinating seminars and workshops, and acting as liaison for faculty and staff, federal and state agencies, foundations and various University officials.
Cynthia A. Stifter, associate professor of human development, has been named the winner of the 1999 Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award. The award recognizes research contributions occurring or culminating within the past several years. Endowed by Evan Pattishall, dean emeritus of the former College of Human Development, and his wife, Helen Pattishall, an individual and family studies graduate. The recipient will present a special lecture during the spring semester.
Stifter received her bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's degree in clinical social work, and her Ph.D in human development from the University of Maryland. Before teaching at Penn State, Stifter was a visiting scholar at Harvard University's School of Public Health and its School of Medicine. She is a past member of the editorial board at Child Development, and currently sits on the editorial board for Developmental Psychology.
She is internationally known for her research on emotional regulation in infants. She is the first to have demonstrated that behaviors that are hypothesized to regulate emotions in infants do, in fact, operate that way. She has found that while infants have a small repertoire of emotional behaviors, they do engage in self-comforting, reorientation and avoidance or withdrawal, that effectively reduces emotional arousal. She is examining whether these emotional behaviors form the origins of behavioral problems that, until now, researchers and child development specialists assumed began around age five or six.
Judith M. Klinefelter has been named the recipient of the 1999 Evelyn R. Saubel Faculty Award, given in recognition for service to students. Klinefelter is assistant professor and professor-in-charge of undergraduate programs in the School of Nursing.
Klinefelter received her nursing diploma from Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing, an undergraduate degree in nursing from Lebanon Valley College, a master's degree in nursing from Penn State, a post-master's certificate in nursing administration from Villanova University, and a D.Ed from Penn State.
She served as coordinator of undergraduate education at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center from 1986 until this year. As a member of the School of Nursing's Curriculum Committee and later as chair, she provided leadership for strategic curriculum revisions and the development of new courses. As the professor-in-charge of undergraduate nursing programs for the school, she has first-line responsibility for the more than 900 students that enroll each year.
Janice Light, associate professor of communication disorders, has been named the recipient of the Dorothy Jones Barnes Teaching Award, which honors a faculty member for excellence in teaching and contributions to the art of teaching. It is supported by an endowment from Dorothy Jones Barnes, a 1944 graduate of home economics, and her husband, William T. Barnes.
Light received a bachelor's degree in English from Carleton University and a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Ottawa. She received her master's degree and Ph.D in special education from the University of Toronto. She is known internationally as a pioneer in the area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and has developed the undergraduate and graduate courses in AAC at Penn State. Under her direction, the Department of Communication Disorders changed the requirements of the undergraduate and graduate curricula, and became one of the first programs in the United States and Canada to require students to develop competencies in AAC. She has published widely and recently completed a book, Building Communicative Competence With Individuals Who Use Augmentative And Alternative Communication.
In 1996, she received the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field in research, teaching and service.
Karl M. Newell, professor of kinesiology and head of the Department of Kinesiology, will receive the 1999 Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award. The award honors a senior faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to the field across a major portion of his or her career. Newell will present a special lecture on his research in the spring.
Newell received his certification in education from Nottingham University in England, and a diploma (first-class honors) from Loughborough College of Education in England. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in physical education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focus is motor learning and control approached from a broad lifespan perspective.
His early work focused on the development of a coherent account of different kinds of information in motor skill acquisition. Another major contribution has been the development of a space-time theory of movement accuracy. Currently, Newell has several research projects under way. In one of these he is examining the structure of movement variability in both normal and abnormal movement. A practical impact of this work has been the earlier determination in clinical practice of the negative side effects of the prolonged intake of neuroleptic medication.