Fellow's Events
Events lead by FACET Fellows
FACET Fellows
The FACET Fellowships program provide full-time faculty members with opportunities to lead campus-wide initiatives in their respective areas of expertise and help to shape faculty professional development programs throughout TU.
Under the mentorship of Assistant Provost Patricia Westerman and in collaboration with center staff, FACET Fellows offer programming, mentoring, confidential teaching observations, and private consultations. View FACET Fellows Events.
Jennifer E. Potter | Faculty Mentoring Fellow
As the FACET Faculty Mentoring Fellow, I am implementing the Faculty Mentoring @ TU framework to encourage faculty mentoring at the department, college, university, and informal levels. In addition to the three yearly mentor trainings I will host, I am also available to work with faculty at all levels to discuss how to: find the mentoring you need, be a good mentor, build a formal mentoring program [or, alternatively, how to formalize informal mentoring practices]. Come see me or send an email, if you’d like to talk; I look forward to working with you!
Contact Dr. Potter
Matthew Hemm | Faculty CURE Fellow
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are a rapidly growing area of course curriculum in which students learn course material while at the same time conducting authentic research to make new discoveries. As the inaugural FACET CURE Fellow, I support faculty in all aspects of CURE development, such as creating a new CURE, implementing their CURE, CURE assessment and publishing about CURE classes. To do this, I participate in one-on-one meetings with interested faculty, meet regularly with faculty who have received FACET CURE award, and help facilitate the CURE Community of Practice. Please contact me with any questions about CUREs and their potential benefits for students and faculty!
Contact Dr. Hemm
Betsy Neville | Faculty Leadership Fellow
As the inaugural Faculty Leadership Fellow, I support faculty by engaging in one-on-one appointments with current department chairs to establish relationships and identify possible areas for professional development; holding additional one-on-one/small group meetings by request to address identified leadership challenges/opportunities; delivering professional development sessions addressing identified areas of interest in conjunction with the Council of Chairs; and providing consultation for faculty interested in a future department chairperson or other academic leadership position.
Contact Dr. Neville
Samuel Gerald Collins, Ph.D. | Disciplinary & Interdisciplinary Research Fellow
As a FACET fellow, I help connect faculty to methodologists and subject specialists, develop interdisciplinary research groups based on common subject interests, consult with faculty on qualitative research, and consult with faculty on grant applications.
Contact Dr. Collins
Cody Sandifer | Teaching Fellow
As a FACET Teaching Fellow, I am here to help you improve your teaching practice. I am here to support informal in-person teaching observations, one-on-one appointments for instructional support, and consultations regarding current and potential undergraduate learning assistant programs.
Contact Dr. Sandifer
Kelly M. Elkins | FACET Scholarship Fellow
In my role as FACET Scholarship Fellow, I am happy to provide the following support: consulting on research methodology, professional writing support, review of internal and external grant proposals, and presenting and publishing your teaching practice. Contact me for a meeting.
Contact Dr. Elkins
Mary L. Slade, Ph.D. | FACET Teaching Fellow
Mary Slade (Professor, Early Childhood Education) has focused much her career and scholarly activity on pedagogy and professional development. Her FACET topics areas include: engagement in both small and large classes, rubric development, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, service-learning, and online and blended learning. Faculty Page for Dr. Slade
Contact Prof. Slade
Liyan Song, Ph.D. | FACET Transformative Technology Fellow
As a FACET Fellow on Transformative Technology, I help raise faculty’s awareness and support faculty’s use of technologies such as generative AI in teaching and research. I consult with faculty through one-on-one appointments and workshops on using transformative technologies to facilitate teaching and learning.
Dr. Song's Faculty Page2022-2024 Fellows
Jennifer Ballengee | Disciplinary & Interdisciplinary Research Fellow
Jennifer Ballengee is the chair of the Languages, Literatures, and Culture Department at Towson University and the author of The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture (SUNY 2009). Her publications address questions of the body, politics, rhetoric, and representation. She is currently finishing a monograph on ruins, tragedy, and national ideology. She teaches courses in literary theory, mythology, rhetoric, Ancient Greek, and cultural studies.
Luis Engelke | FACET Scholarship Fellow
As a FACET Fellow, I hope to assist faculty members in blending creativity into research. Our focuses can include the following: goal setting, broadening perspectives, expanding types of inquiry and dissemination, challenging results through questions and inquiry, editing and presentation. Please reach out to schedule a meeting.
2021-2022 Fellows
Kristin Frank | FACET Teaching Fellow
Dr. Kristin M. Frank received her undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Architecture from Virginia Tech and completed her Masters and Ph.D. in Mathematics Education at Arizona State University. Dr. Frank’s research focuses on students’ thinking in secondary and undergraduate mathematics. Specifically she studies how students coordinate their meanings for graphs with their images of varying quantities. Her teaching responsibilities at Towson University include content courses for pre-service elementary and secondary mathematics teachers.
Ryan Murray | FACET Emerging Technology Fellow
Ryan Murray (Associate Professor, Electronic Media & Film) creates conceptually-driven artwork that combines digital and physical media, and his teaching includes video editing, virtual reality, and immersive media. His FACET focus areas will include creating virtual reality video and integrating emerging technology into teaching and research/scholarship/creative activity.
Barry Margulies | Fellow for Faculty Mentoring
Dr. Margulies received B.S. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he did research with Drs. Eyal Ron and Robert Langer in controlled release technology. He earned his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under the tutelage of Dr. Wade Gibson, where he studied the G protein-coupled receptors encoded by human cytomegalovirus. He did his post-doctoral studies also at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with Dr. Janice Clements, studying CD4-independent entry of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses. He has been a faculty member at Towson University since 2001, where he established the Towson University Herpes Virus Lab. His research encompasses studies in the molecular biology of human cytomegalovirus and human herpes virus–6, and new methods for the long-term prevention of recurrent outbreaks of herpes simplex viruses-1 and -2, varicella zoster virus, and feline herpes virus-1.
2020-2021 Fellows
Desirée Rowe | FACET Research Fellow
Desirée Rowe (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) is a Fulbright Scholar and an expert in qualitative research methods. Her research includes autoethnography and currently focuses on creative participatory methods that explore how women communicate negativity and failure. Her FACET focus areas will include interdisciplinary collaborations and translating research results into public scholarship.
Ronald Hermann | FACET Teaching Fellow
Dr. Hermann directs the Earth-Space Science program. He teaches Physical Geology (GEOL 121) as well as the science education courses Teaching Science in the Secondary School (SCIE 380), Teaching Science in the Middle School (SCIE 381), Student Teaching in Secondary Education (SCIE 393), and the physical science course Earth-Space Science (PHSC 303).
Inaugural Fellows
Samuel Gerald Collins, Ph.D. | FACET Research Fellow
Sam Collins (Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice) is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and book author. His FACET focus areas include: grant writing, book proposals, research design, and collaborative research.
Karla Kubitz, Ph.D. | FACET Teaching Fellow
Karla Kubitz (Associate Professor, Kinesiology) will support colleagues on topics including: active learning, discussion facilitation, backwards design, effective multiple-choice assessments, and team-based learning, about which she is an scholar and mentor.
Mary L. Slade, Ph.D. | FACET Teaching Fellow
Mary Slade (Professor, Early Childhood Education) has focused much her career and scholarly activity on pedagogy and professional development. Her FACET topics areas include: engagement in both small and large classes, rubric development, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, service-learning, and online and blended learning.
Questions?
Please direct questions to Patricia Westerman, Assistant Provost and the Director of the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson via email, pwesterman AT_TOWSON or call 410-704-6068.