Tommi Barrett-Greenly Completes Her Second NASA Internship
Master of Education student Tommi Barrett-Greenly completed her second consecutive summer institute at the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) internship program. Founded in 1917, Langley Research Center is the nation's first civilian aeronautical research facility and NASA's original field center. “In 2008, I interned as a technical writer in the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch,” Barrett-Greenly said. “I can't describe how excited I was. Every teaching day, I told my students to never give up, to go for their dreams. Now, I was able to do that myself. It was an incredible feeling.” In the summer of 2009, Barrett-Greenly worked on a project called S'COOL -- Student Cloud Observations On-Line -- which involves students studying the clouds and passing the data on to NASA Langley researchers. For more on Tommi Barrett-Greenly's summer at NASA, follow this link to the UDaily story.
Helene Delpeche and Elizabeth Soslau Complete Career Preparation Institute
School of Education doctoral students Helene Delpeche and Elizabeth Soslau completed a new career preparation program entitled Putting Your Ph.D. to Work: Academic Career Preparation Summer Institute. Sponsored by UD's Office of Graduate and Professional Education and the Center for Teaching Effectiveness and Career Services, this intensive one-week course was designed to introduce and hone the competencies that those who hold doctorates will need to succeed in today's competitive academic job market, as well as ease their transition from doctoral study to their first year of an academic appointment. For more on this new pilot program, follow this link to the UDaily story.
Carol Wong and Shuaib Meacham Work with Students in the ASPIRE Program
School of Education Professors Carol Wong and Shuaib Meacham are working with students in the Aspiring Teacher initiative, which is designed to encourage Delaware middle and high school students to join the UD campus community as well as to consider teacher education as a career pathway. The middle and high school students interact with peers who value academic achievement and with UD students who are involved in ASPIRE, which is a student organization that supports access for members of underrepresented groups to careers in education. ASPIRE students serve as college student role models who provide information and a glimpse of college life. Wong and Meacham worked with ASPIRE's director Melva Ware to develop many of the activities. For more on the design of this important program, follow this link to the UDaily story.
Nancy Jordan Serves on National Academies Committee
Nancy C. Jordan served on the Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics of the National Academies, which produced a National Research Council report entitled Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Paths toward Excellence and Equity. Released in the Summer of 2009, the report calls for a national initiative to improve mathematics education for preschoolers. For more on this initiative, follow these links to the press release and the full text of the report.
Megan Pell Coordinates Junior Partners in Policymaking Program
In the summer of 2009, education doctoral student Megan Pell coordinated the Junior Partners in Policymaking program for 20 young adults, with and without disabilities, ages 15-22, who were living on the University of Delaware campus with classes in the day and entertainment and social programming in the evenings, from art therapy to karaoke. The program's goal is to encourage the participants to become advocates for those with disabilities and for themselves. The program links those who want increased social and political support for individuals with disabilities with those who make public policy. UD students who minor in disabilities studies, including Andrea English, Megan Moritz, Denise Jenkins, Greg Neal and Julie Mastrella, assisted Pell with the program. The Disabilities Studies minor program is coordinated by Laura Eisenman, associate professor in the School of Education. For more on Junior Partners in Policymaking, follow this link to the UDaily story.
