June 11, 2008

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Eleven graduate and doctoral students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education were presenters at the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) conference in Atlanta this spring.

The students presented research on a number of education topics, including math manipulatives, pre-school curriculum and creating a democratic classroom. The student presenters were: Stephanie Parker, Kara Scholl, Laura Bloom, Terri Garrison, Karen Snyder, Debra Walker Smith, Aubretta Curry, James Curtis Jordan, Kyoko Osaki, Judy Rapp and Jim Wilder.      

UAB faculty members who conducted presentations at the conference were instructor Grace Jekpemboi, assistant professors Deborah Strevy, Ph.D., Susan Spezzini, Ph.D., and Kay Emfinger, Ph.D., and UAB associate professors Janice Patterson, Ph.D., Lynne Kirkland, Ed.D., Maxie Kohler, Ph.D., Lois Christensen, Ph.D., and Professor Jerry Aldridge, Ed.D. Aldridge also was the ACEI conference chairman.