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.
Dr. Cardetti's Vita (pdf)

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

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)

Manuela Wagner

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
Dr. Wagner's Vita (.doc)