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Institutes and Centers | Projects and Grants | Programs | SchoolsAlumni and Foundation Activities
Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition Counseling and Exercise
The BOUNCE program takes standard nutrition and physical activity intervention to the next level by fostering the mother-child partnership; heeding the cultural and gender specific behaviors that shape perceptions about food, exercise, and body image; and promoting the healthy lifestyle as fun. Dr. Norma Olvera, the Project Director explains “The idea behind the program is to teach young girls about positive body image and healthy food and exercise choices.” Initially implemented in 2005 as a summer program for 7–14 year old Hispanic and African American girls, Dr. Olvera received funding in 2006 to expand the 2-week BOUNCE Lite program to include the girls’ mothers. The expanded project, BOUNCE: Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition, Counseling and Exercise, is a 15-week program held during the regular school year.
Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline®
The Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline (CMCD) program combines instructional effectiveness through consistency in classroom organization by the teacher with student self-discipline developed cooperatively in the classroom. The CMCD program is designed to give you and the faculty a plan to improve the quality of instruction and the learning environment, to produce a cooperative, caring, and safe place for children and educators to work and learn.
Health Network for Evaluation and Training Systems
The Health Network for Evaluation and Training Systems (HNETS) at the University of Houston provides research, evaluation, training and technical assistance to assist schools, communities and healthcare settings to meet their health goals. HNETS is based on transdisciplinary systems theories and concepts for the development, implementation, maintenance and assessment of health programs and policies. Stage-based models are used to help programs facilitate change at the community, organization, work group and individual levels. Emerging computer-based technologies are used to support these efforts.
Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education
The Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education (LITE) strives to prepare educators as leaders who embrace technology as a way to address real-world issues through projects that will link students to their communities. The doctoral students in this program work with teachers in training, practicing teachers and educational teams that include university faculty, other graduate students, and professionals from local educational institutions and community organizations. These teams work on the design, development, and evaluation of a new generation of educational resources and instructional strategies that emphasize collaboration, active learning, and critical thinking. These innovative resources and teaching strategies will be disseminated to teachers and schools, both within the Houston area, and beyond so that they can be replicated, adapted and used by teachers in their classroom and students in their learning.
Physical Science Manual
Quality Teacher Recruitment and Assistance Consortium
The University of Houston's Quality Teacher Recruitment and Assistance Consortium (Q-TRAC) was created to address a critical shortage of secondary-level teachers in the fields of mathematics and science. Q-TRAC's graduate program prepares math and science teachers for placement in high-need school districts
teachHOUSTON
teachHOUSTON prepares and supports secondary mathematics, science, and computer science teachers at the University of Houston Central Campus. If you are an undergraduate who wants to teach mathematics, science or computer science at the middle school or high school level, then teachHOUSTON is for you. teachHOUSTON students have access to scholarships, paid internships, tuition assistance, advisors for all aspects of the program, and continued support after graduation.
Training Interventions & Genetics of Exercise Response
The TIGER (Training Interventions & Genetics of Exercise Response) Study is designed to investigate how variation in DNA sequence may influence levels of body fatness and fitness both prior to and following a 30-week exercise program. The study will include a multi-racial group of 1,536 men and women (18-30 yrs) drawn from the student population at the University of Houston (UH) – more than 900 UH students have already participated in the TIGER Study. The exercise training and fitness evaluation is administered at UH, and the genetic analyses will be performed in collaboration with investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Transition to Teaching
The University of Houston College of Education Transition to Teaching program is a unique approach for degreed Math and Science professionals interested in becoming tomorrow's secondary teachers within Houston-area school districts.
Understanding Neighborhood Determinants of Obesity
The Understanding Neighborhood Determinants of Obesity (UNDO) Research Team conducts research anchored in an ecological framework that incorporates environmental and individual determinants of physical activity, dietary habits and obesity in populations of color. The work combines theory and techniques drawn from behavioral medicine, community psychology, geography, policy science, social ecology and social marketing. Dr. Rebecca Lee is the Principal Investigator on several grants funded by the NIH (Health Is Power - HIP) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Healthful Options Using Streets and Transportation in Our Neighborhoods - HOUSTON). These projects examine physical activity and dietary habits their relation to the obesogenic capacity of neighborhoods in Houston and Austin, TX.
Dr. Lee received the 2005 University of Houston College of Education Research Excellence award, and serves as a grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Community Level Health Promotion Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.
