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Department of Mathematics
Math Sciences Building Unit 3009
Storrs, CT 06269-4120
Phone: 860-486-3442
Email: cardetti@math.uconn.edu |
Fabiana Cardetti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University in 2002. Her research interests are in geometric control theory, mathematical biology, as well as in mathematics education for K-12 teachers. As a member of the TNE team, Dr. Cardetti will be investigating the development and assessment of instructional strategies to improve the mathematics content knowledge of prospective teachers. She teaches the mathematics content courses for elementary education pre-teachers and has provided assistance to practicing teachers through professional development programs.
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Department of Educational Psychology
249 Glenbrook Rd.
Storrs, CT 06269
Gentry 304
Phone: (860) 486-0201
Fax: (860)486-0180
Email: robert.colbert@uconn.edu
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Dr. Robert D. Colbert is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Program within the Department of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, and received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Colbert's research focuses on field based investigations for implementing transformed school counselor role within the context of education reform. Currently, Dr. Colbert is seeking to determine whether a research, training and practice model in which he co-developed, provides direction for counselor educators and school counselors role in closing the academic achievement gap for poor and minority youth within an urban school setting.
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Department of History
241 Glenbrook Rd., Unit-2103
Storrs, CT 06269-2103
Phone: 860-486-2711
Email: michael.dintenfass@uconn.edu
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Michael Dintenfass is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. He wrote extensively on British economic and business history for many years and on the philosophy of history. He now concentrates his intellectual energies on the study of the existential and ethical discourses of the West from the ancient world to the present. For over a decade Professor Dintenfass has been developing a skills-intensive approach to teaching history as one of the humanistic disciplines anchored by a tradition of great books.
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Department of Educational Leadership
249 Glenbrook Rd. Unit 2093
Storrs, CT 06269-2093
Gentry - 438
Phone: 860-486-9201
Fax: 860-486-4028
Email: robin.grenier@uconn.edu
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Robin S. Grenier, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of adult learning in the Department of Educational Leadership, in the Adult Learning Program at the University of Connecticut. She is also a Teahcers for a New Era (TNE) Fellow. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and has worked as a high school English teacher and a training and educational consultant for school districts and non-profit organizations. Her research interests include: expertise development, informal and experiential learning, museums as sources of adult learning, and qualitative inquiry. Away from UCONN Robin enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter exploring the wonders of New England.
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Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Gentry Building Unit 2064, Room 240A
Storrs, CT 06269-4120
Phone: 860-486-9523
Email: jason.irizarry@uconn.edu
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| Jason G. Irizarry is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Neag School of Education of Education at the University of Connecticut . A former middle school teacher in New York City , he has most recently worked as a Postdoctoral fellow with the Teachers for a New Era (TNE) Project- a grant funded program designed to enhance teacher preparation, particularly as a means to improving pupil achievement in K-12 settings . Prior to his arrival at the University of Connecticut, he was the Director of Project SPIRIT (Springfield Partnership to Improve the Recruitment of Inspiring Minority Teachers), a college-community collaboration aimed at increasing the number of teachers of color in urban schools. He received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, philosophy of education, culturally responsive curriculum development, and urban education. His research focuses on urban teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention with an emphasis on increasing the number of teachers of color. Additional areas of interest include culturally responsive pedagogy, urban youth culture, and Latino students in U.S. schools. Dr. Irizarry's Vita (.pdf) |
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Blue Skye Foundation TNE Fellow
Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology,
91 N. Eagleville Road, U-3125,
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: 860-486-4332 (office), 860-486-2202 (lab)
E-Mail: juliet.lee@uconn.edu
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Juliet Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of London in the U.K. She received a post-doctoral fellowship from the European Space Agency and spent a year and a half at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to study the effects of gravity on immune function. She continued her post-doctoral studies in cell motility with Dr. Ken Jacobson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where she stayed until joining the faculty of Molecular and Cell Biology at UConn in 1998. Her current research is focused on the biomechanics of cell movement and involves live cell imaging in combination with various biophysical and cell biological techniques. As a TNE fellow Juliet will work with the Curriculum Design Committee to enhance the preparation of prospective teachers. Dr. Lee's Vita (.doc) |
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Department of English
215 Glenbrook Road, Unit-4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
Phone: 860-486-4048
Email: Capshaw@uconn.edu
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An Associate Professor of English, Katharine Capshaw Smith teaches courses in children's literature, young adult literature, and African American literature. Her monograph , Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance , won the 2006 award for best scholarly book from the Children ' s Literature Association. She also researches Caribbean children ' s literature and culture . She is at work on a book on children ' s literature and cultural nationalism during the American " Black Arts " movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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249 Glenbrook Road Unit-2064
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2064
Gentry Room 228
Phone: 860-486-4723
Fax: 860-486-9522
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Shu-hua Tang is a professor and former director of Graduate Institute of Education at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien , Taiwan . She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Syracuse University in 1994. Her research interests are centered on the social/emotional issues of k-12 students. Being an amateur of children literature, she has also conducted several studies by adopting the approach of bibliotherapy on topics of affective education. She is a Fulbright scholar and currently visiting TNE at UConn. Her research project is to investigate how educators help to improve the underachievers' self-regulatory abilities, how teachers learn to advance their instructional strategies in handling underachievers' problems, and how parents be empowered to assist their children in making progress . With her husband and two children, she also likes to explore diverse cultural activities in the U.S.A. Dr. Tang's Vita (.pdf) |
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages
337 Mansfield Road, Arjona, Room 208
Storrs, CT 06269-1057
Phone: 860-486-3317
Fax: 860-486-4392
Email: manuela.m.wagner@uconn.edu |
Manuela Wagner is Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at UCONN. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Graz in Austria . During her graduate studies she spent 2 years in the baby lab of Psychophysics in the department of Neurophysiology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main, Germany , and 3 years in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include pragmatic development in first, second and foreign language acquisition, methods of foreign language teaching, intercultural communication and communicative development in special circumstances. In her role as the director of the Critical Languages Program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages she finds it interesting to apply current methods of foreign language education in a program of less commonly taught lan
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