Faculty kudos

College of Education

William A. Sadera Educational Technology and Literacy, and Cheryl Fisher published a chapter, "Distance and Continuing Medical Education," in the C. A. O’Niel, C. A. Fisher and S. K. Newbold (Eds.) book, Developing Online Learning Environments: Best Practices for Nurse Educators (2nd ed). New York: Singer.

College of Liberal Arts

Jennifer Ballengee, English. Her book, The Wound and the Witness:  The Rhetoric of Torture, has just been published by SUNY Press. The book explores the spectacle of torture as a persuasive device in literature from the 5th c. BCE through the 5th c. CE  as well as in recent media representations.

Ping Fu, Foreign Languages, presented a talk, "Local/Global Dialectics in Media Spectacles: Reality Shows, Local Attachments, Cultural Citizenships, and Visual Consumptions in Contemporary China," at an interdisciplinary conference,The Status of Theory in Contemporary Chinese Film and Visual Culture, held at University of Maryland, College Park, Feb. 20-21.

Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

Honi Bamberger, Mathematics, traveled to Decatur, Ala., on January 20 to lead a geometry workshop for all new Kindergarten through second-grade teachers taking part in the Mobile Mathematics Initiative (MMI). On January 21 and 22 she observed in classrooms and made recommendations for instruction in two of the Title 1 schools involved in this project.

Alex Storrs, Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, treated a group of fifth graders to a planetarium presentation—and a taste of what a real college course is like—-when they visited TU on Feb. 18. The pupils, all from Woodbridge Elementary School in Baltimore County, toured the campus with student interns.The school is a member of TU's Professional Development School (PDS) network.