Associate Professor, University program win national award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2000

BATON ROUGE--Denise Egéa-Kuehne, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Louisiana State University, and the university's French Education Project for Research and Teacher Education recently received the American Association for State and Local History's Award.

Egéa-Kuehne is the director of the French Education Project for Research and Teacher Education, which produced the 1999 project "Commemorating the Tricentennial of the Founding of Louisiana - 1699-1999."

The project was supported by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities--a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities--and by the French Cultural Service. "This two-weekend, two-location program for teachers of French and social studies provided 120 educators with convenient, informative, entertaining, and attractive materials to be used in their classrooms, their schools and their communities, in order to improve Louisiana students' understanding of their French heritage" AASLH said.

Egéa-Kuehne is also a member of the University's Women's and Gender Studies faculty and of the Curriculum Theory Project faculty. She is a native of France, and received the distinction of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French government in 1997.

The AASLH has acknowledged organizations and individuals committed to the preservation and interpretation of local, state and regional history with awards for 55 years. Its annual Awards Program is the most prestigious recognition for achievement, and its Award of Merit is the highest award the organization bestows. The Award of Merit recognizes excellence in programs, projects, and people nationally, and is the result of a three-tier selection among state, regional and national divisions. This year, the AASLH recognized recipients from 77 organizations and individuals in the nation, and only 14 awards of merit were granted.

The winners were recognized at the 2000 AASLH and Louisiana Association of Museums at a joint meeting and banquet in New Orleans on Friday, Sept. 22.

The AASLH is a not-for-profit professional organization of individuals and institutions working to preserve and promote history. Based in Nashville, Tenn., the AASLH works to advance knowledge, understanding and appreciation of local history in the United States.

For more information on the French Education Project for Research and Teacher Education, contact Egéa-Kuehne at 225/578-2429 or visit the Web site at http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~dekuehne. For more details on the AASLH, call 615/320-3203.

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