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Betty Hurley-Dasgupta is currently the Interim Associate Dean at the Center for Distance Learning of SUNY Empire State College. But, her usual role is as a mentor in the area of mathematics. She has been with the college for almost 30 years and has enjoyed the many opportunities and challenges along the way. Her primary research interests are in mathematics education. Currently, her focus is on ePortfolios and OERs. As a proponent of learner-centered environments, she has been involved in a faculty development project as part of the Multi-Versity group of the HP Catalyst project.
She has a doctorate in mathematics eduaction from the University of Rochester. |
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Margaret Czart obtained a Doctor of Public Health Degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health in May of 2012. At present, she holds the post of Research Information Specialist within the Distant Medical Education Office at UIC’s College of Medicine. Her duties include the Readiness for Residency Online Survey Project for medical residents and program directors, curriculum evaluation surveys for alumni, database management, and administrative/technical resolution. In addition, she assists in managing the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Core Curriculum Program and other virtual world standardized patient student role play activities projects. Teaching and research focus on the various uses emerging technology for Public Health education for both students and the general public. This fall she will be teaching US Health Systems course as an adjunct professor at Empire State College. During the 2005 academic year, she completed a Fulbright Grant with the National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw, Poland. In 2004, she was a member of the first graduating class of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Online Informatics Program funded by Sloan-C. Prior to graduate studies, she was employed as a Project Coordinator for a youth substance use and abuse initiative within the Institute for Health Research and Policy (formerly, Health Research and Policy Centers) at University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Dr. Sharon Brewer is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. where she teaches a range of courses including general, analytical and environmental chemistry. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of New Brunswick, and her Ph.D. from Carleton University. Her research interests include chemical education with a focus on the use of remote instrumentation as a teaching tool, the development of inquiry based laboratory curriculum, and the use of technology for encouraging laboratory discussion. Other research areas include analytical method development, water treatment and environmental chemical analysis. She is a co-investigator with Bruno Cinel on a project working since 2006 on sharing analytical instrumentation for teaching purposes over the internet, collaborating with UBC and WWU on the Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) and BC-ILN projects. The BC-ILN became part of the HP Catalyst Multi-Versity Consortium in 2011. Sharon is also involved in distance laboratory curriculum development, and along with Bruno developed a first year Chemistry distance laboratory course for the Open Learning Division of TRU. |
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Dr. Bruno Cinel is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) where his current teaching involves first year general chemistry; second year organic chemistry; upper level organic chemistry and chemical biology including advanced organic synthesis, spectroscopy, special topics and directed studies. He obtained his B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research interests include science and chemical education with a focus on the use of remote instrumentation for laboratory and classroom activities and the assessment of laboratory learning outcomes. His other research interests include natural products chemistry involving the isolation, structure elucidation, and chemical ecology of compounds from terrestrial and marine organisms. Since 2006, Bruno has been a co-investigator with Sharon Brewer on the BC-Integrated Laboratory Network (BC-ILN) developing cyber-enabled instrumentation and resources for instructors across British Columbia. In 2011, the BC-ILN was selected to join the HP-Catalyst Multi-Versity Consortium in promoting learning opportunities in STEM+ education. He is also involved in distance curriculum development for the Open Learning Division of TRU and the Sloan-C “Moving the Lab Online” annual workshops. |
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Erin Macri is the Instrument Specialist and Services Coordinator at Western Washington University’s Scientific Technical Services where she provides training, logistical, and technical support for the scientific instrumentation associated with the University Instrument Center and the Integrated Laboratory Network (ILN) initiative. The goal of the ILN Initiative is to provide anytime/anyplace access to scientific instrumentation and supporting curricular materials over the internet.Erin is the lead investigator for the HP Catalyst funded project Remote Access to Scientific Instrumentation and Online Labs for STEM Education: Building Laboratory Parity throughout the Curriculum. This project is investigating the issue of parity between face-to-face and remote laboratory learning experiences and the integration of Tablet PC’s in the lab curriculum. Erin obtained her B.S. and M.Ed. from Western Washington University. |
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Dr. Shekar Viswanathan is a Professor and Chair of the applied engineering department at National University. His research interests include modeling and simulation, and innovation. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and MBA in general management. He has published over 100 papers. His current interest is in developing serious games for STEM+ topics. |
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Dr. Sajid Hussain is the Chair of the Department of Business Administration at Fisk University since 2010. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fisk University since 2009. He worked as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in the Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Canada, 2005-09. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, 2004. Dr. Hussain is investigating energy efficient communication protocols and security techniques for mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive applications. He is interested in smart homes, telehealth, and industry automation. He is also interested in e-commerce and mobile-commerce applications. He has published more than 70 refereed journal, conference, and workshop papers. His research is financially supported by several grants and contracts, such as UNCF/Google, NSERC, NRC, AIF/ACOA, and NSHRF. He has co-organized several journal special issues, conferences, and workshops. He has served on many technical program committees and reviewed papers for several journals. Further, he has reviewed grant proposals for NSERC's Discovery, SPG, and RTI grants. He is a senior member of IEEE. |
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Devon Cancilla is currently the Dean of Business and Technology at American Sentinel University. Prior to that he was Director of Scientific Technical Services at Western Washington University where he developed online labs using remote instrumentation. He is currently working on launching an online Masters of Geospatial Systems (MGIS) degree. |
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Dr. Chengcheng Li is an assistant professor of the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Texas Tech University. He also obtained an MBA degree from University of Monaco. Dr. Li is the PI of an NSF grant that leads his development of the teaching and collaboration environment through cloud. He has been actively involved in US federal, industry, and ECU internal research projects. His research interests are in Technology Education, Computer Networking, Network Security, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, and Image Processing. He can be reached atliche@ecu.edu. |
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Jim Vanides (HP, US) |
