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and taught interdisciplinary first-year learning communities linking the natural and social sciences and humanities. He taught a graduate course for pre-service teachers called Entomology for Educators and a travel abroad course in Costa Rica. Brian's degrees are in entomology from the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Florida. His PhD in environmental studies from Antioch University – New England focused on reconceptualizing natural history study as an interdisciplinary liberal arts endeavor. Brian's primary teaching and research interests include community-based curricular development in sustainability studies, assessment of conservation education, student perceptions of nature, and disturbance ecology in forest ecosystems. For SENCER, Brian is a senior associate, Leadership Fellow. He is a former interdisciplinary cluster coordinator and New England regional coordinator. At SSI 2010, Brian will co-present “Integrating SENCER and Sustainability Practices on Campus” and co-facilitate work sessions on “Designing a SENCER Course,” “What is Civic Engagement” and “Planning Next Steps and Accessing Resources.” He will also present a poster on “The Idea and Practice of Sustainability: Transforming the Living and Learning Experience of First Year Students.” Kay Harmless is the director for the Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Teacher Education at Indiana State University. Kay received her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Georgia Southern University, master’s and specialist’s degrees from Butler University in school administration and her doctoral degree from Indiana University in School Administration. She has experience in leading innovative educational programs and school leadership in both Texas and Indiana. Kay has served in public and charter schools as teacher and administration, for the Indiana Department of Education as director of PRIME TIME (the state initiative to reduce class size in elementary schools) and as the director of the Indiana Principal Leadership Academy. She also worked at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis as director of the Center for Exploration and director of Public Policy. Her university experience also includes Butler University and Texas A & M University Commerce. As a lifetime educator and learner, her professional experiences are focused on being in on the ground floor of innovative programs. She is an original member of the Indiana State University SENCER Team (2009), working with students and faculty to SENCERize the campus. At SSI 2010, Kay will co-present a concurrent session entitled “Field Report: Disaster, Drought, Development, and Degradation—Three Innovative Courses from SCI-Southwest.” She will also present a poster on “The SENCER Teaching Model in Indiana State University’s Introduction to Environmental Science Class.” Jeannette Haviland-Jones is a professor of psychology and director of the Human Emotions Laboratory at Rutgers University. She received her bachelor’s of arts in psychology and mathematics from Harvard University and her PhD in developmental psychology from Michigan State University. Her postdoctoral work was at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. She is currently on sabbatical after several years as the vice chair for Undergraduate Education in the Rutgers psychology department - a department with 1200 majors and a concentration in lab-based social science. Jeannette attended SSI 2003 as a team member and subsequently reinvented Adolescent Psychology (a course for psychology majors and pre-service teachers) as a SENCER course. This included new formative assessment strategies and teaching methods that develop critical, scientific thinking. These methods move the student from being a consumer of facts to a producer of new knowledge. Jeannette has developed tools for approaching emotion as a dynamic system that influences complex thought processes and many kinds of behavior, including autonomic behavior. Ecopsychology – or the effect of the environment on human health and intellectual performance is the most recent focus of the research. What makes a "healing" space or a "learning" space In a very popular set of studies, Jeannette 52
and her colleagues (including Terry McGuire and Pat Wilson, both SENCER alumni) showed that certain flowers or undetected flower scents promote happiness, social behavior and even memory. Subsequent research has replicated this and extended it to creative problem solving. They suggested an evolutionary theory in which flowers became the "pets" of the plant world and are supported by people in order to provide reciprocal emotional/motivational support. Pertinent to SENCER, the studies of the mechanisms of affective biases in perception and cognition suggest how informal implicit processing systems facilitate more explicit learning. Practice and theory are coming together across many domains. Jeannette has published several books including a text on adolescence, one on the "Genius" of emotion and is co-editor of the Handbook of Emotion (three editions). The Human Emotions Lab supports the scholarly work of both graduate and undergraduate students and is a site of lively investigation. At SSI 2010, Jeannette will co-lead a workshop on “Survivor: SENCER Islands (Students Get Lost in Places that We Didn’t Even Know Existed,” present a concurrent session on “Practical Uses of Cognitive Science Strategies to Increase Student Achievement: More Swimming and Less Sinking in Math, Science, and Technology Waters,” and serve as a panelist on the “Advanced Issues in Pedagogy and Assessment” work session. Robert Holm is the director of the Institute for Research and Scholarship at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Miami and his masters and doctoral degrees in biological sciences from Northwestern University. Bob has more than 25 years of experience in the environmental management field. Prior to his tenure at Butler, he was administrator of the Environmental Resources Management Division for the City of Indianapolis. He has also served as manager of environmental programs for the City of St. Petersburg, Florida, and manager of the coastal and wetlands section for Metro Dade County, Florida. Building on that experience, he regularly teaches an environmental biology course where he has incorporated service-learning projects including wetland restoration, invasive plant species removal and stream restoration. Bob has developed a natural world course focusing on water quality in the urban environment, and two honors courses – Environmental Pollution and Environmental Technology. The development of the environmental biology course and its service-learning component, and data gathered from the water quality course using the SALG have been presented at two SENCER Summer Institutes. At SSI 2010, Bob will co-present “The 2010 William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science Session: Initiatives at Butler University” and present a poster on “Addressing Environmental Problems in SENCER-Based Courses at Butler University.” Bert Holmes is a program director in the division of undergraduate education at the National Science Foundation. At SSI 2010, he will co-present the workshop “Writing Good Proposals to Support Scaling Up Your SENCER Work.” Additional biographical information was unavailable at the time of publication. Judith Iriarte-Gross earned her bachelor’s of science and master’s of science in chemistry from the University of Maryland College Park and her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of South Carolina. She completed a postdoctoral research project at Southern Methodist University. Before joining Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in 1996, she worked as a chemist in government and industry and also taught at several schools in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. Judith mentors an active undergraduate research group in both traditional bench chemistry and in the scholarship of science education. Her current research interests focus on the development of a SENCER general education science course and on the scholarship of how non-science majors learn science. She was named a SENCER Leadership Fellow for 2008-2010. She was also named an AWIS Fellow in 2009 and received the 2010 TRIO 53
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