Accomplishments
Westenberg selected as biointeractive teacher ambassador
Dr. Dave Westenberg, associate professor and interim chair of biological sciences, was invited to serve as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute biointeractive teacher ambassador. Westenberg attended the annual HHMI Biointeractive Holiday Lectures on Science at the institute’s headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and is participating in the development of curriculum materials for teaching concepts presented during the lectures. The topic of the 2016 Holiday Lectures is, “Ecology of Rivers and Coasts: Foodwebs and Human Impacts.”
Read More »Article by three faculty selected for Technical Communication Quarterly
Three faculty in English and technical communication co-authored an article, “Quest for the Happy Ending to Mass Effect 3: The Challenges of Co-Creation with Consumers in a Post-Certeauian Age,” which will be published by Technical Communication Quarterly in 2017. The authors are Dr. Daniel Reardon, assistant professor, Dr. David Wright, associate professor, and Dr. Edward Malone, professor.
Read More »Ahmad elected to Missouri Parks Association board
Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history and political science, has been elected to the board of directors for the Missouri Parks Association. The association’s purpose is to educate public officials and the general public about the parks and historic sites in Missouri.
Read More »Skyles publishes on ‘thinking outside the lab’
Amy Skyles, instructional designer in educational technology, recently published an article, “Thinking Outside of the Lab: Special Considerations for Lab Course Redesign,” for the International Journal on Innovations in Online Education. This article is in reference to Delivering Experiential Labs To All (DELTA).
Read More »The Teaching Professor features article by Kerwin
Razmus Kerwin, instructional designer in educational technology, published an article, “Involving Students in Rubric Creation and Using Google Docs to Make It Happen” in the October issue of The Teaching Professor.
Read More »Tran published peer-reviewed article
Dr. Thu Tran, administrator for the intensive English program in the Office of International and Cultural Affairs, published a peer-reviewed article, “Using Sound Recorders as a Pedagogical Tool for Language Development,” in Vol. 49, Issue 1, 2016 of TESOL Reporter. The TESOL reporter is a journal dedicated to the dissemination of ideas and issues of interest to English language teachers worldwide.
Read More »Chen interviewed by The Economist
Dr. Genda Chen, the Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Chair in Civil Engineering, was interviewed by The Economist for an article, “Stopping Bridge Collapses,” published Oct. 15. Chen spoke about his research on bridge scour and “smart rocks.”
Read More »Gertsch goes on the record about ‘secret lives of rocks’
A 3-year-old’s simple question to the FiveThirtyEight.com website, “What does a rock do?” required a not-so-simple explanation. Dr. Leslie Gertsch, associate professor of geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering, discusses the mechanical properties of rock under densely populated areas in the article published Oct. 11.
Read More »Khayat ranks as ‘most cited’ in civil engineering
Dr. Kamal Khayat, the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering, is among the world’s most cited researchers in the civil engineering discipline, according to the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Khayat is the only Missouri S&T professor to be included in the “most cited” ranking. He also is the only professor from the four-campus University of Missouri System to make the list.
Read More »Ahmad speaks at conference in Great Britain
Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history and political science, presented “Prairie Dogs: The Animals of Manifest Destiny,” at the third Global Conference on the Animal and Human Bond at Mansfield College, Oxford, Great Britain, in September.
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