Professional and Academic Activities
Beverly J. Ferrucci (mathematics), Jennifer McDougall ‘08, and Jack Carter (California State University East Bay) recently published “Getting a Bead on It!” in the National Council of Teachers’ journal, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. Their article presents a concrete way of demonstrating linear equations and their associated components to students studying algebraic thinking in middle schools.
Katherine E. Tirabassi (English) presented on “Sustaining Writing Across the Curriculum [WAC] in Hard Times: The Creation of a Regional WAC Consortium” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY, March 18-20.
Sponsored by a KSC Faculty Development Grant, Katherine Tirabassi also presented with Christina Ortmeier-Hooper (University of New Hampshire) on “Teaching ELL Writers: Writing Center Strategies for Pull-Out Classrooms” at the Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESOL) Conference in Boston, March 26-27.
A report of Elizabeth A. Neuhardt’s (Chemistry ‘10) research has been published in April’s edition of the Nucleus, the journal of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. Ms. Neuhardt was awarded a Norris-Richards Undergraduate Research Scholarship to work with Colin Abernethy during the summer of 2009.
The link to the article is: http://www.nesacs.org/TheNucleus/2010/April_2010_NUCLEUS_web.pdf#page=8 (opens as pdf).
