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Faculty Kudos
Inna Alesina, M.F.A., Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, delivered
her paper, “Nature as a Framework for Teaching Design,” at the International
Conference for Design Education Researchers in Turkey in July. She also has
another patent to her name. Her latest invention, the WGWAG (corcl.com/
the-wgwag), received its official U.S. patent last month.
Heather E. Harris, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, co-edited
Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS Effect: Platform, Presence, and Agency (Race,
Representation, and American Political Institutions), released in Nov. 2019, and
edited Neo-race Realities in the Obama Era, published in May 2019.
Bobby Jackson, Stevenson alumnus and Adjunct Professor, Stevenson
University Online, was named the Science Teacher Specialist and CDC
Science Ambassador for Anne Arundel County Public Schools. In his new
role, he is responsible for developing and implementing science curriculum
for all schools K-12 within the school system and providing professional
development and support for teachers.
Anna Kayes, Ed.D., Professor of Management, presented her paper,
“Learning to Practice Decision Making and Judgment,” at the Research in
Management Learning and Education conference held at the University of
Dubrovnik in Croatia.
Amanda Licastro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, has been
invited to join a small group of scholars to serve on the Oxford English
Dictionary Researchers Advisory Board to help develop and test new digital
tools that will aide researchers who wish to utilize the Oxford English
Dictionary in their scholarship and teaching. She will be sharing the ways
she uses the OED through a series of blog posts and webinars. The Oxford
English Dictionary is the definitive record of the English language, featuring
600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and more than 1,000 years of English.
Lisa Moyer, Ph.D., Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor
of Graduate Education, traveled to Cairo, Egypt, in March and August
to facilitate workshops. The project, funded by USAID, partners STEM
education professors and leaders from several U.S. universities with deans
and professors from four Egyptian universities to develop a secondary STEM
teacher education program designed to serve the growing need for educators
in STEM fields throughout Egypt. During this five-year project, Moyer will
continue to collaborate with U.S. and Egyptian faculty and leaders through
travel to Cairo and Philadelphia.
Kim Pause Tucker, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Environmental
Sustainability, and Joe Matanoski, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, were
awarded $4,000 from the BGE Green Grants program to fund Eco reps and
for Native Plant Garden work.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, M.F.A., Chair and Professor, Film and
Moving Image, has been asked to serve as the documentary programmer
of the Columbia, Md.-based Lakefront Film Festival in its upcoming second
year. The festival will run July 23-26, 2020.
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