Psychology Professor Segert Files for School Board

SegertBEAT BYTE (January 22, 2008) -- Ines Segert, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri, has publicly announced that she has filed for the Columbia School Board.

Segert and her husband Jan, an MU mathematics professor, have two sons in the Columbia Public Schools: a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School and a seventh-grader at Smithton Middle School.

A psychology department faculty member since 1990, Segert was recognized with a Psi Chi Outstanding Faculty Award in 2005 and an MU Arts & Sciences Purple Chalk Teaching Award in 2007.

She received her doctorate in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University, completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the UCLA Brain Research Institute.

"I am very pleased to let you know there will be a school board candidate filing later today that is very well-informed and sensible about the math curriculum at CPS," said local mathematics education advocate Michelle Pruitt.

Segert previously applied for the open school board position in May 2007, later filled by veterinarian Tom Rose.

(As of this writing, former Rock Bridge Elementary principal and Mo DESE employee Gale "Hap" Hairston has also filed for the Columbia school board).

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