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As associate dean, he is also responsible for integrative or collaborative programs involving undergraduate curriculum and co-curriculum in the college. Recent examples of these include the university's ongoing involvement in SENCER, coordination of faculty development and curricular planning for both the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (SEE) Initiative and the Rivers Institute. At SSI 2010, Don will be co-presenting the session “Field Report: Large Scale SENCER initiatives at Indiana State University and the University of Dayton.” Karin Peterson is associate professor of sociology at UNC Asheville. She has a PhD from the University of Virginia, a diplôme d'études approfondies from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and a bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Karin’s research and teaching interests are in the area of the sociology of culture, with a focus on the arts and knowledge. She teaches in UNC Asheville’s Food for Thought topical cluster, including courses entitled Technology in Everyday Life and Sociology of Gender. She is currently conducting research on cultural conceptions of weight, weight loss and obesity. At SSI 2010, Karin will co-present a concurrent session on “Food for Thought: Integrating Learning Across STEM and Non-STEM Disciplines Using Cross-Class Projects.” Pamela M. Proulx-Curry received a bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Maine and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of New Hampshire. She began her college teaching career in 1995 at the University of Maine at Machias. In 1999 Pam moved to Unity College, where she served as associate professor of chemistry and as faculty administrator for teaching and learning. She is currently the executive director of the Wisconsin Campus Compact, promotes public and community service that develops students’ citizenship skills, helps campuses forge effective community partnerships, and provides resources and training for faculty seeking to integrate civic and community-based learning into the curriculum. Pam also serves as a SENCER Leadership Fellow, and coordinator for the GLISTEN Milwaukee Cluster. At SSI 2010, Pam will lead work sessions on “Advanced Civic Engagement” and “What is Civic Engagement” Helen Qammar, director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Akron, received her bachelor’s of science degree in chemical engineering from Syracuse University. After working as an engineer for Exxon Research and Engineering Co., she completed her master’s degree and her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia. In the department of chemical engineering Helen has been influential in curricular design and assessment of student learning. She received the university designation as a SoTL Fellow and Faculty Fellow for Assessment. She was awarded an NSF CAREER award in part to develop a vertically integrated design curriculum. In 2008, all undergraduate chemical engineering students were involved in a team-based project on the potable water crisis in Haiti. This humanitarian issue yielded energetic discussions on socio-cultural, political, economic, and education issues in all 16 teams. Students reported a higher level of interest in getting the engineering solution right and viewed the humanitarian issue as the vehicle for more effective teamwork, communication and project management skills. This work was presented at a SENCER Washington Symposium and Capitol Hill Poster Session. 66
As director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning, Helen is engaged with research on reflective and critical thinking, assessment of general education and students’ perspectives of academic advising. She serves as senior personnel for an NSF CCLI Phase II grant to implement SENCER pedagogy in first-year learning communities and the integration of citizen-science across the curriculum. At SSI 2010, Helen will co-present the concurrent session “Field Reports: Transforming Science Education at Madonna University and SENCER in a First-Year Learning Community—Questions to Ask Yourself.” Carol Reeves is professor of English at Butler University in Indianapolis. She has a bachelor’s of art and a master’s of art in English from Texas Tech University and a PhD from Texas Christian University. She began her post-graduate career in 1989 at Butler where she has run writing programs and where she is now the director of the Butler Program in Science, Technology and Society. Her research and publications have focused on how scientists communicate new, revolutionary or iconoclastic ideas to their peers and how scientific findings are communicated to the public. Her research has led to articles about the language of AIDS, the rhetorical dimensions of Mad Cow Disease and the language of the human genome. Currently, she is examining the language of climate change over the past fifty years. Her teaching includes courses on rhetoric and science, literature and medicine, medical and environmental writing, and utopian fiction. Last year, she was named the Mortar Board professor of the year in her college by Butler students. As director of the STS program at Butler, Professor Reeves has been working with other faculty to develop two major tracks within the program – health and community studies and environmental studies. She is new to SENCER, but most of her courses involve various levels of experiential learning leading to student-initiated research and writing projects that serve the Indianapolis community. For example, several STS majors are currently working with a team made up of public health nurses, physicians, and communications specialists to increase public awareness of the need for universal HIV testing of pregnant women in order to prevent perinatal infections, which have risen 400% in the last two years in Indiana. Her Literature and Medicine course linked individual students to an HIV/AIDS service organization where they interviewed case workers about their caseload and their views about HIV prevention campaigns. At SSI 2010, Carol will present a concurrent session on “The Call of Story and the Pre-Med Major.” Eliza Jane Reilly is the director of the Phillips Museum of Art and past director of the Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin & Marshall College, where she also teaches in the American studies program. Before coming to Franklin & Marshall in 2003, she was director of programs in the Office of Science, Health, and Student Engagement at AAC&U, working on the SENCER and PHHE programs. From 1998 to 2003 she also served as the executive director of the American Conference of Academic Deans, a national organization of chief academic officers and other academic administrators committed to improving undergraduate liberal education. Eliza received a master’s in art history and a doctorate in American history from Rutgers University. She is a senior scholar with the SENCER project, where she serves as general editor of the SENCER model series. She also is co-editor of the peer-reviewed, web-based publication Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal. At SSI 2010, Eliza will preside over the plenary session “Staying on the Cutting Edge.” She will co-present the concurrent sessions on “The Public Health Major in an Undergraduate Stetting” and “Disseminating Your Work: The SENCER Journal and Model Series.” She will also be a panelist on the work sessions “Building a Community of Practice” and “Campus-Wide Implementation.” 67
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