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At SSI 2010, Orianna will co-present the concurrent session “Field Reports: Sources of Lead and Our Attempts to Minimize It and Survey of Developmental Defects and Pollutants in Local Amphibian Populations in Ohio Waterways.” She is also the co-author of a poster entitled “Atrazine: Ohio University Southern Students Study the Effects of an Agricultural Chemical on Amphibians.” David Clarke is an associate professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master's and doctoral degrees in plant biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. David was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and resident plant collector in Guyana. He is trained in plant diversity and evolution (plant systematics) and his research is focused on patterns of diversity and evolution in tropical botany, particularly in Guyana, South America. David teaches courses in plant systematics, general botany, field botany, and plant morphology. His Plants and Humans course for non-majors is one of two natural science courses in UNCA’s food cluster, an innovative part of UNCA’s Integrative Liberal Studies curriculum wherein students enroll in natural science, social science, and other courses all sharing a common theme of our relationship to food. Students in Plants and Humans partner in cross-course projects with students in other food cluster courses where they share their scientific understanding of food plants with students from other courses who, in turn, share expertise they have gained from courses in economics, sociology, and health and wellness. At SSI 2010, David will co-present the concurrent session “Food for Thought: Integrating Learning Across STEM and Non-STEM Disciplines Using Cross-Class Projects.” Kimberly Cossey is an assistant professor of chemistry at Georgia College & State University (GCSU). She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008, and a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Baptist University. As a new professor, she constantly strives to make organic chemistry more attainable without lowering the standards of what students need to know for their future studies. Through the university’s Chem Scholars program, she has also been able to give undergraduates hands-on experience in a research laboratory. This research allows students to design their own projects. With the professor acting as a facilitator to their work, students synthesize a molecule of interest. Outside of the GCSU, she is an officer in the Middle Georgia section of the American Chemical Society. In her first year at GCSU, Kimberly was given the opportunity to join a faculty development workshop for the creation of SENCER courses and modules. Having completed post-baccalaureate research in both chemical education and organic synthesis, she believes that innovative ideas come from merging ideas from multiple areas, either within or outside of a specific discipline. Through this on-site workshop series, she has become a part of an interdisciplinary network of faculty on campus that is committed to the design of integrated or novel courses utilizing the SENCER model (called the Innovative Course Building Group). Participation in this network has lead to an ongoing cycle of improving current courses and determining ways to make new courses more effective and engaging to students. At SSI 2010, Kimberly will co-present a concurrent session on “Creating SENCER Faculty Networks on Your Campus.” Jennifer da Rosa is a general science instructor at Texas Woman’s University (TWU) in Denton, Texas. She received her bachelor’s of science in geology from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and her master’s of science in geoscience with specialization in oceanography and anthropology from Texas A&M University. Jennifer joined the faculty at Texas Woman’s University in 2007 after teaching geology and oceanography for Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work at TWU has honed her interest in innovative physical and earth science education methods. Jennifer pioneered a new general-science SENCER course, Climate Change: A Human Perspective, in the fall of 2009. The course involves the 46
study of climate change through the interdisciplinary lense of meteorology, geology, oceanography, astronomy, and anthropology. Students examine both natural and anthropogenic climate forcings while focusing on man/climate adaptations and impacts. In Spring 2010, Jennifer developed another SENCER course by transforming a preexisting Earth Science course into Earth Science in the Context of Natural Disasters. The course investigates the cause and effect of natural disasters and explores the prediction, mitigation, and prevention of catastrophic events. Prior to her teaching career, Jennifer worked as an oceanographer for the Naval Oceanographic Office’s (NAVO) Warfighting Support Center at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, analyzing commercial and classified satellite imagery for oceanographic, hydrographic, and geologic processes vital to United States Naval Operations. Jennifer is also the founder and owner of Heliogram Science Education, a company dedicated to the publication of science-based children’s literature and educational material. At SSI 2010, Jennifer will co-present a concurrent session on “Field Report: Disaster, Drought, Development, and Degradation—Three Innovative Sources from SCI-Southwest.” She will also copresent a poster of the same name. Shanna Dell is the SENCER summer intern in Washington, DC, where she has been helping to coordinate the Summer Institute. Shanna graduated in May from Beloit College, where she received her Bachelor’s of science in biochemistry with a minor in health and society. While at Beloit, Shanna took a number of SENCER classes, assisted with the annual Girls and Women in Science Conference, and published an article in the Beloit Biologist entitled “ADCC activity as a factor in sex differences in HIV-1 disease progression.” At SSI 2010, Shanna will serve as part of the on-site staff and be a panelist during the “Students as Partners in Change” plenary session. Monica Devanas has been teaching microbiology for over twenty years. She is active in issues of science education, programs for retention of women in science, and in NSF funded grants to enhance science education both at Rutgers and in pre-college populations. Her course, first taught in 1992, Biology, Society, and Biomedical Issues: HIV/AIDS has been recognized as a model course by SENCER. In 1992 she joined the new Teaching Excellence Center as associate director. She is now director of Faculty Development and Assessment Programs for the renamed Center For Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research (ctaar.rutgers.edu); leading workshops on teaching portfolios, curriculum design, learning styles, active and cooperative learning and instructional technology. Monica offers workshops for faculty and administrators on assessment; assists deans in accreditation reviews and their own reviews by faculty. She consults with Peter Seldin in his “Teaching Portfolio Workshops,” contributing chapters to books on teaching portfolios, administrative portfolios and strategies to improve teaching. At SSI 2010, Monica will present two concurrent sessions, “Portfolios for Many Applications” and “Active Learning in Large Classes.” She will co-present a concurrent session on “HIV/AIDS and Related Phenomena” and be a panelist on a work session on “Planning Next Steps and Accessing Resources. Monica will also lead a session on “Pedagogy and Assessment” and co-facilitate a session on “Designing a SENCER Course.” Thomas Dukes is a professor of English at the University of Akron. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in science writing, business and technical writing, writing in the social sciences, and freshman English. He also teaches a variety of literature courses from sophomore to graduate levels. He received his bachelor’s and master’s in English (creative writing) from the University of Texas at El Paso and his PhD in modern literature from Purdue University. He has published scholarship, fiction, journalism, creative non-fiction, and poetry in a variety of journals; he is the author of one book of poetry, 47
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