The Best of the Best
Congratulations to these NLU faculty members for their academic achievements in and outside the classroom.
Angela G. Andrews, assistant professor, NCE, was a speaker at the First International Symposium on Early Mathematics Education in April 2009, at the Erikson Institute in Chicago.
Edna Bazik, associate professor, NCE, received the ICTM Max Beberman Mathematics Educator Award in October 2008 at the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference in Peoria, IL She was recently elected secretary of the Illinois Mathematics Teacher Educators for a three–year term. She also co–chaired the Annual Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics Pre–Conference in Peoria, IL, in October 2008 and presented a session there entitled "Engage Students in Mathematics Activities that Promote Learning." In November 2008, Bazik presented a session entitled "Foundational Mathematics: Planting Seeds for Mathematics ISAT Success" in the Kankakee, IL, school district; and presented a paper entitled "Enhancing Mathematical Understanding Through Visual Literacy" at the Benjamin Banneker National Conference in Little Rock, AR. In January 2009, Bazik presented two sessions entitled "Engage Students in Algebra Activities" at the 3rd Annual GEAR UP Conference for Chicago Public School teachers and she also presented "Preparing Students in Solving Math Applications and Math ISAT Extended Response Problems" in the Flossmoor, IL school district. In February 2009, she presented "Best Practices in Teaching Mathematics" to teachers in the Safe Schools Networking Program at the Professional Development Alliance in Joliet, IL. Bazik presented several sessions in March and April 2009 entitled, "Encouraging Reluctant Mathematicians" and "Family Fun with Mathematics, Grades K–4 and Grades 5–8" for the Gifted Education Cooperative in Hinsdale, IL. She co–presented a workshop entitled, "The Parent's Vital Role in a Child's Career Choice: Do Math and You Can Do Anything" with Anna Yates, assistant professor, CAS, and Sharon Rak, adjunct faculty member, NCE, at four NLU campus sites in March and April. In April she authored Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) Mathematics questions for grade 8, reviewed ISAT items and served on the ISBE Mathematics Assessment Advisory Committee for Illinois State Board of Education in Springfield, IL. She was selected as a central region team leader by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and met with all of the national leaders at the NCSM conference in Washington, D.C. in April 2009.
Jennifer Berne, associate professor, NCE, co–wrote the article "Focusing Literature Discussion Groups on Comprehension Strategies" in the September 2008 issue of Reading Teacher. This work won the Shaw research award in 2008. Berne, Sophie Degener, Sunday Cummins and Ruth Quiroa, all NCE assistant professors, were named the new editors of the "Professional Resources" column of the Illinois Reading Council Journal.
Camille Blachowicz, professor, NCE, and Peter Fisher, professor, NCE have written a chapter on "Attentional Vocabulary Instruction" in the new book What Research Has to Say About Vocabulary Instruction, IRA, 2008.
Arlene Borthwick, professor, NCE, received the "Making It Happen" award from the International Society for Technology in Education in July 2008 during the National Educational Computing Conference in San Antonio, TX.
Roberta Buhle, visiting assistant professor and co–director of the CLIP Project, NCE, has been awarded the Shaw Fund for Literacy 2009 Faculty Research and Scholarship Publication Award (for work accepted for publication in 2008). Buhle was first author on the article "The Assessment Double Play," published in Educational Leadership (2008) with NCE professor Camille Blachowicz as second author. Victoria Naughton, NLU alumna with a 1999 Certificate of Advanced Study in Reading, has been awarded the Shaw Fund for Literacy 2009 Student and Graduate Research and Publication award.
Diane German, professor, NCE, received the 2008 American Speech–Language–Hearing Association fellow award at its conference in November 2008.
Paul Gross, associate professor, CAS; Ofra Peled, associate professor, CAS; and Renee Judd, assistant professor, CAS; have worked for several years to develop the new Health Biology Concentration in the natural sciences department of CAS to serve students who are interested in a career in the healthcare industry.
Robert Keser, associate professor, CAS, is on leave to help develop the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts, in Jordan, as senior lecturer and director, faculty affairs.
Joanne Koch, professor, CAS, is proud to see her play "Stardust," winner of the Nantucket National Short Play Competition, published by Dramatic Publishing Company in April of 2009. Joanne also had her play "Belle Barth: If I embarrass you, tell your friends," about a popular fifties comedienne called the female Lenny Bruce, produced at Theo Ubique Theatre at No Exit in Rogers Park in 2008. The new musical, directed by Fred Anzevino, received Recommendations from Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune, The Reader, and the Joseph Jefferson Awards.
Kristin Lems, professor, NCE, was the keynote presenter for the fall workshop of Illinois Teachers of English as a Second Language/Bilingual Education, held at College of DuPage in October 2008. Her presentation topic was "Using Music to Teach ESL." She led a post–conference institute at the International Conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in Denver in March 2009 on the topic "Using Music to Teach ESL." She also wrote an article for the online newsletter of the Holistic Education SIG of the American Education Research Association for the winter 2008–2009 issue entitled "Using Literature Circles in a Teacher Education Class." Art Hyde, professor, NCE, also contributed an article to this issue entitled "And the Moral of the Story is." Maya Levanon, assistant professor, NCE, is the new editor this newsletter.
Several faculty members made presentations at 2009's Illinois TESOL/BE Conference. Lems and Margaret Gigous, adjunct faculty, NCE, and co–chair of the Elementary SIG of ITBE and a member of the Illinois TESOL/BE board, presented a session entitled "Five Vocabulary Activities to Build Metalinguistic Awareness in ELLs." Leah Miller, assistant professor, NCE, and member–at–large on the Illinois TESOL/BE board and chair of its award committee this year; and Debbie Hjelle, adjunct faculty, NCE, gave a presentation entitled "Unpacking the WIDA Standards with Manipulatives." Tim Collins, associate professor, NCE, and Tenena Soro, assistant professor, NCE, are members of the Illinois TESOL/BE Awards Committee for 2009. Deborah Sternecky, adjunct faculty, NCE, is tech column writer for the Illinois TESOL/BE newsletter.
Marjorie Roth Leon, associate professor, NCE, published an article entitled "Family–School Partnership Building Skills for School Psychologist Trainees" in the October 2008 issue of Trainers of School Psychologists Trainers' Forum.
Maria Malayter, assistant professor, CAS, has published a peer–reviewed chapter entitled "Defining a New Model for the Transformational Retirement" in the book The Refractive Thinker: An Anthology of Higher Learning. Volume III: Change Management published by The Lentz Leadership Institute in October 2009. She is also presenting on the topic of "Preparing Older Workers for Encore Careers: a University and Community Perspective," at the CAEL 2009 International Conference in Chicago in November 2009.
Todd Alan Price, associate professor, NCE, and Karen Roth, instructor, NCE, presented at the 8th International Research Conference on Service–learning and Community Engagement in New Orleans, LA, in October 2008. "Putting the Action into Action Research" detailed the work of NLU students and faculty who have participated in service work in NOLA since the summer 2007 with NLU's Partnership with NOLA School Project.
Patrick Roberts, associate professor, NCE, received a Fulbright award to lecture and conduct research in Bosnia–Herzegovina. He will begin his five month assignment with the faculty of philosophy at the University of Sarajevo in February, 2010. In addition to lecturing on curriculum theory in the dept. of education, he will be conducting research on museum education in post–conflict societies at the National Museum of Sarajevo.
Costas Spirou, professor, CAS, published a chapter entitled "The Evolution of the Tourism Precinct" in City Spaces–Tourist Places: Urban Tourism Precincts, edited by Bruce Hayllar, Tony Griffin and Deborah Edwards, pp. 19–38, Oxford: Butterworth–Heinemann. Spirou was also appointed to the Program Committee of the Chicago Cultural Alliance (CCA), a partnership of Chicago's ethnic museums and cultural centers. He also serves on the executive board of the CCA. He also published a chapter entitled "Recent Stadium Development Projects in Chicago: A Tale of Three Neighborhoods" in Sports in Chicago, edited by Elliott Gorn, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. He organized and moderated a panel which included presentations by four graduate NLU students at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association held jointly with the Wisconsin Sociological Association at Rockford College in October 2008. At the conference, Spirou received an award for his service to the Illinois Sociological Association as 2007–2008 president. He was appointed research fellow at the Institute of Latino Studies of the University of Notre Dame. He presented a paper on Daniel Burnham and Richard M. Daley at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in March 2009 in Chicago and at the "Chicago Metropolis 2020," a civic organization responsible for The Burnham Plan Centennial celebration.
Gale Stam, professor, CAS, presented a paper entitled "How Patterns of Thinking for Speaking Change: A Case Study" at the Language, Communication and Cognition Conference, University of Brighton, UK, August 2008. She gave presentations entitled, "How Gestures Indicate Language Proficiency" and Gesture: Coding Videotaped Data" at National–Taipei University, National Chengchi University and Da–tung University in Taipei, Taiwan, in April 2009.
Susan Thorne–Devin, assistant professor, CAS, was inducted into the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress in November 2007.
Stephen Thompson, associate professor and interim dean CAS, participated as an outside expert in an AARP "Divided We Fail" town hall forum on the cost of doing nothing in health care in Hinsdale, IL, in April 2009.
Fred Widlak, professor emeritus, CMB, presented an invited seminar on "Conflict Resolution in Business" at the Fachhochschule Osnabruck University of Applied Sciences in Osnabruck, Germany in November 2008. He presented the paper, "Harmonizing the Six Sigma Approach with Business Process Management," at the Fourth International Scientific & Practical Conference for Lecturers, Post–Graduate Students, and Young Scientists, Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine in March 2009. He also participated in a panel discussion on "Finding MBA Market Niches and Recruiting Students from Developing Countries" at the Fifth Polish National MBA Congress, Krakow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland, in May 2009. He also presented the paper, "Mind, Body, and Behavior During Obesity Treatment," at the Second Scientific Conference and Discussion Forum on Personality: Psychology and Frontiers, "The Body in Health and Illness," at WSB–NLU in Nowy Sacz, Poland. He also edited the chapter, "Role of Standardization in Technology Development, Transfer, Diffusion and Management," in The Handbook of Technology Management, published in 2009 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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