FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // DECEMBER 2020 |
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President Scott D. Miller serves as Executive Editor (along with Dr. Marylouise Fennell) on the presidential thought-leadership series President to President, launching the 16th year of this publication with the 2020-2021 series titled "Fostering a Culture of Innovation." Chapter Three, "Bringing Corporate America to Your Campus" by Eastern Connecticut State University President Elsa M. Núñez, Ed.D., is now available here. His daily blog, Dialogue, can be found at prezscottmiller.blogspot.com.
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Benjamin Dobrin facilitated a training on CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) Threats for the Chesapeake Police Academy.
Lydia Kennedy gave a talk titled "Self-intersecting geodesics on cones with small cone angle" at the Mathematical Association of America's Maryland-DC-Virginia fall meeting.
Elizabeth Malcolm and Bill McConnell co-presented virtually for the Virginia Association of Science Teaching conference. The presentation entitled, "Understanding Environmentally Sustainable Roof Design," highlighted the educational use of the green roof on Greer Environmental Sciences Center and described an elementary science lesson where young students investigated various types of roofs and their impact on the environment.
Within an educational program facilitated by Jill Sturts' students, Clair Berube and Bill McConnell co-presented virtually for educators and volunteers from the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center. The presentation entitled, "Informal Learning: Didactic vs. Inquiry-based Methods," provided professional development for more than 30 participants.
Sue Larkin and Maynard Schaus presented "COVID-19 and Faculty Development Initiatives" at the Council of Independent Colleges' 2020 Institute for Chief Academic Officers and Academic Team Members (remote). They shared about the VWU pedagogical workshops to support the shift to remote, hybrid, and dual mode instruction, and led a discussion on how this change has transformed higher education instruction.
Clair Berube presented a paper entitled: "Teachers as Researchers: Best Practices in Schools" at the 2020 Virginia Association of Science Teachers annual conference. The paper discusses teaching research methods to teachers so they can conduct simple quantitative and qualitative research at the classroom level, how to publish the papers and/or present them at their annual content area conferences.
Taryn Myers presented a paper titled "Effects of a brief dissonance-based intervention on body image in women and a pilot sample of men" as part of a symposium at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention, which was held virtually.
Taryn Myers presented a paper titled "The Roles of Family Pressures and Appearance Ideal Internalization in the Relationship between Outness and Appearance Self-Esteem" as part of a symposium at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention, which was held virtually.
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Taryn Myers presented a poster entitled "The effects of a brief dissonance-based intervention on affect, self-objectification, and muscle dysmorphia in a pilot sample of men" with current VWU student Jessica Gurley and VWU alumni Ryan De Los Reyes and Trevaughn McNeil at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, which was held virtually.
Sue Erickson presented the webinar, "Goal Setting in Times of Uncertainty" for library professionals through PCI webinars.
Robert Ariel presented research titled "Improving Younger and Older Adults' Memory for Medication Side Effects with a Retrieval Practice Intervention" at the 60th meeting of the Psychonomics Society which was held virtually this year.
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OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mindy Gumpert, President of the Virginia Council for Learning Disabilities (VCLD), invited students Alyssa Balanta and Jessica Duncan to facilitate a session at the VCLD webinar on co-teaching. More than 100 educators attended the webinar. Mindy also presented at the VAST conference and provided professional development for Chesapeake Public School teachers on "High Leverage Practices."
At a virtual ceremony hosted by the Virginia Association of Science Teaching, Bill McConnell received the 2020 Recognition in Science Education (RISE) Community Partnership Award.
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British podcaster David Bates, in his "Pints with Jack", interviewed Terry Lindvall regarding his book, "Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C. S. Lewis." The interview may found here.
Sherry Matis completed the Certificate on College Teaching through the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education.
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For the second consecutive year, Adam Ruh led an essay writing workshop for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated and participants in their Founders' Centennial Scholarship competition. The scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior from a Title 1 high school. This year's workshop was held virtually. The photo is from last year with Loren Loving Marquez.
Susan Wansink participated in the international ProMobiLGS virtual workshop "Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerausbildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung und nachhaltige Lebensweise: Projekte in Lehre und Forschung in der Grundschulbildung.”
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