Wendy Smith, assistant professor of mathematics education, published her article “Developing Mathematical Reasoning Through Collaborative Discovery” in the Spring 2012 issue of Virginia Mathematics Teacher. Her article investigates the use of carefully designed activities that enhance classroom discourse as a means of collaborative discovery.
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Dr. Lily Ann Goetz presented a paper entitled “Designing and Implementing a Short-term Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program” for the 6th Annual Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from March 9-10, 2012. The presentation was part of the panel, “Uniting Disciplines: Longwood University’s General Education Summer Abroad as a Model for Meaningful Content-focused Language Use and Cultural Sensitization.”
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Dr. William Holliday presented a paper entitled “Developing Cultural Competence in Short-term Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Programs” for the 6th Annual Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from March 9-10, 2012. The presentation was part of the panel, “Uniting Disciplines: Longwood University’s General Education Summer Abroad as a Model for Meaningful Content-focused Language Use and Cultural Sensitization.”
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Sharon Emerson-Stonnell is Principal Investigator on Teaching the 2009 Mathematics SOL in Grades 3-5 Across Southern Virginia, a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant. The grant will be funded by the Virginia Department of Education for $239,804. It will allow Longwood mathematics education faculty and Longwood mathematics specialist graduates to work with 100 mathematics teachers in grades 3-5 throughout Southern Virginia in 2012-2013.
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Dr. Erin Devine has been asked to be a contributor to New York Arts, the on-line branch of The Berkshire Review, International Journal for the Arts. You can read her review of Shirin Neshat’s recent exhibition in Chelsea under the site’s Top Content.
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Craig Challender’s third full-length collection of poems, As Details Become Available, has just been published by Pecan Grove Press.
Almost half the poems in this manuscript, which was a finalist for the 2006 The Journal/Ohio State UP Prize, were written during
his Spring 1998 sabbatical. Last fall Challender’s short story “Assisted Living” appeared in The Chrysalis Reader, and his poems have
recently appeared or are forthcoming in Great River Review, Eclipse, and Connecticut Review.
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Twelve photographs by Michael Mergen, assistant professor of art, are featured in the February issue of Harper’s Magazine.
The photo essay, Vote Here, documents a variety of voting booths on Election Day across the United States.
The work can be seen on Mergen’s personal website:
http://mimages.com/index.php?/project/vote/
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Dr. Leah Shilling-Traina was recently accepted into the 2012 STaR (Service, Teaching, and Research) cohort. The STaR program, funded by the National Science Foundation, provides support to 35 early career mathematics educators from across the country by addressing common challenges such as teaching mathematics courses designed for teacher preparation, establishing a research agenda, and developing leadership skills. In addition to attending a week-long STaR Summer Institute in Park City, Utah, Dr. Shilling-Traina will also attend a special session held during the AMTE Annual Conference in Orlando, FL in January 2013.
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Walter Witschey has released his first serious work under the Longwood imprimatur and aegis, entitled Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica, and published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc. His co-author is Clifford T. Brown of Florida Atlantic University. This dictionary offers students, researchers, and other interested persons concise definitions and descriptions of the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to ancient Mesoamerica.
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Jacqueline Hall, associate professor of mathematics, gave the presentation ” ‘I CAN PROVE IT’–Using Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem to Bolster Confidence for the Math-Anxious Liberal Arts Mathematics Students” on January 6 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA. Her talk discussed a technique used in her Math 131 course where she has each student prove the Pythagorean Theorem to someone else and then write about the experience for a quiz grade in the course.
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