Idea Factory is a speaker series that showcases course-based research experiences conducted by faculty and students within the LTU community and beyond. The series is especially interested in how the course-based research model fosters diversity, inclusion, and academic rigor in the classroom.
Applications or suggestions for future symposia may be submitted to: bbhattach@ltu.edu.
Terrell R. Morton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Justice in STEM Education
University of Illinois Chicago
This presentation leverages critical, phenomenological, and ecological perspectives to explore the existing shortcomings of current efforts to foster transformative, cultural change in higher education, and envision radical possibilities. Centered within the context of STEM education, we will explore the presence of anti-Blackness across micro-, meso-, exo-, and macrosystems in higher education manifesting through individual and institutionalized endeavors. We will then envision new possibilities for collective cultural change anchored in strengths-based frameworks.
Kelly, Ph.D.
Vice President for Undergraduate STEM Education
Association of American Colleges & Universities
Everything must change, but has it?
While the chaos of COVID has interrupted our lives, both academic and personal, there still remain many uncomfortable truths, paradoxes, and peculiarities of undergraduate STEM reform that we are left to grapple with. This seminar will feature the most recent contributions that AAC&U and its Inclusive Excellence Commission have made toward setting in motion a daring course of action for re-imagining and re-engineering not only what undergraduate STEM reform must achieve, but also how soon, and for whom it must be achieved.
Jeffrey S. Lopes, LP.D, MPA
Be humble and be heard. Utilize the power of your platform to innovate and empower others to lead with empathy, love and respect. The platform of sport has the power to change the world. While inequity has been a constant in the human experience, change has always been born of the voices of leadership. Sport is exemplary of leadership and its leverage to create amazing impacts and outcomes. As Gandhi once said, “Be the Change You Want to See in The World”. Collective voice is voluminous. Embrace your leadership and let your voice be heard.
Ty Faulkner
Instructor, Director of Pathways to Research Careers & Grand Challenges Programs
Historically, athletes like Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Tommie Smith & John Carlos, Babe Ruth, Venus Williams, Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Magic Johnson, Pat Tillman & Colin Kaepernick have all use their highly visible Sport platform for protest, marching against injustice, and to conduct other forms of social activism for change.
Are student athletes expected to be role models & social activists?
A social activist is a person who works to achieve political or social change as a member of an organization, stands for a cause, or addresses a particular aim & injustice. In this idea factory presentation, explore why it’s important for college students & athletes to stand and speak-up peaceably for a cause or injustice. Athletes now have the right to use their sport platform as name, image, and likeness (NIL) for personal profit. But, what if more athletes used their NIL brand to bring attention to a cause or an injustice? Learn about social activism from LTU students, athletes, and a coach who will share how and why they’ve taken a knee, raised a clutched fist, demonstrated publically, marched in protest, and other forms of social activism.
Corinne Stavish
Director, Technical and Professional Communication
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Almost 2,200 years ago, a small band of oppressed people, in spite of internal conflicts, rebelled against the powerful Seleucid Empire in the first recorded war fought for religious freedom. The Festival of Hanukkah celebrates that story.
Panelists:
Dr. Sibrina Collins
Prof. LaVetta Appleby
Dr. Darryl Boyd
This panel marks the publication of African American Chemists: Academia, Industry and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Dr. Sibrina Collins. Dr. Collins will be joined by Dr. Darryl Boyd (Science Made Simple, LLC.) and Prof.
Lavetta Appleby (LTU) for a conversation about chemistry history, pedagogy, and cultural narratives.
Dr. Diaz Eaton
Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies
Bates College
In an interdisciplinary team seeking to work across boundaries to create new knowledge, we found we had an obstacle that proved bigger than we estimated – language and culture around what we defined as models and modeling. In this talk I define a framework for models and modeling in ways that help us all better recognize the modelers in all of us. We also use this framework to think about how various approaches across STEM might be different or similar from each other, recognizing these differences as strengths towards a more comprehensive understanding of complex phenomena. In this context, I talk along the way about how I came to think about these issues, where this work has led, and how it manifests in other research.
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Core Faculty Member in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of New Hampshire
These days “community, culture and engagement” have become big buzzwords from universities to for-profit corporations. In this talk, I will share the true story of how we ended up talking about diversity and inclusion, instead of justice and freedom. ll describe why we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be stuck with a problematic framework and point out how we can make Black lives matter in science.
Dr. Monica W. Tracey
Professor, Learning Design and Technology Administrative and Organizational Studies
College of Education
Wayne State University
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Inclusion implies a variety of people have power, a voice, and decision-making authority. Through empathic design, instructors attempt to get closer to the experience of the student to increase the likelihood that each student is included in the learning experience.
This experiential interactive virtual session will take you on an empathic journey by immersing you in empathy and empathic design while
illustrating how empathy = inclusion. The goal is to develop inspired empathic design learning environments that ensure inclusion of all learners.
Zosia Krusberg
Director of Graduate Studies and Senior Lecturer
Department of Physics
University of Chicago
zosiakrusberg.com
The role of contemplative practice in integrating formal theory and personal experience in the undergraduate physics curriculum
One of the objectives of the undergraduate physics curriculum is for students to become aware of the connections between the fundamental principles of classical physics and their personal experience. Nonetheless, numerous studies in physics education research have shown that students’ awareness of such connections tends to deteriorate, sometimes substantially, following instruction. In this talk, I will discuss a collection of contemplative practices aimed at integrating formal physical principles with students’ personal, embodied experience, I will also share excerpts of students’ written reflections on their experiences with the practices, in which they report recognizing interdisciplinary connections between physical principles and chemical and biological systems, experiencing a sense of curiosity and an intrinsic motivation to deepen their understanding of physical principles, and appreciating the somatic, affective, and cognitive benefits of a contemplative practice.
Dr. Marlo Rencher
Director, Technology-Based Programs
TechTown Detroit
Founder
Tech Founders Academy
In this interactive virtual event, Dr. Marlo Rencher will discuss her findings from recent research coupled with decades of experience on innovative practices for inclusion in tech. She draws from a close study of tech spaces such as accelerators, incubators, co-working facilities, and conferences to benchmark best practices from some of the country’s most inclusive organizations. There are five key takeaways that she invites you to explore as you consider how to promote inclusion in your community.
Since her initial research, the world has changed. As the co-author of Hard Reset: A Framework for Inclusion in the New Normal (forthcoming), Dr. Rencher will detail how her recommendations have changed for new and uncertain times.
Chris Harris
Adjunct Professor, Psychology
Chris Harris is Adjunct Professor of Psychology and a member of the Course-Based Education working group at LTU. In this interactive workshop, Professor Harris presents how he uses his Instagram journal as a teaching tool, in the college classroom and in his independent counseling practice, to encourage others to achieve optimum wellness, which he defines as physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. Through social media, Professor Harris models his own path towards optimum wellness. Workshop participants are invited to review the content on Professor Harris’s Instagram page, and identify one to three postings they wish to discuss during the workshop.
Cynthia Simpson, MLIS
Coordinator of Library Access Services
LTU Library
In 2013, 90% of volunteer Wikipedia editors, or “Wikipe-dians,” were estimated to be male. In 2014, only 15% of Wikipedia’s biographical entries focused on women and their accomplishments. The Women in Red (WiR) Project was launched to balance these inequities by increasing the number of female Wikipedians and Wikipedia’s global coverage of women. When a reference to a person who does not have their own page appears in Wikipedia, their unhyperlinked name appears in red. The WiR project researches and creates biographical entries for those red names that belong to women, thus creating working hyperlinks and changing these names from red to blue.
Join Cynthia Simpson, MLIS, in an interactive lecture exploring inclusivity on Wikipedia through concerns of editing bias in voluntary participation, gender disparity among contributors, the importance of female representation, and how you can get involved.
Dr. Scott Franklin
Professor of Physics at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Director of the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation
Student learning, whether in the classroom, lab, or informal environment, is shaped in important ways by their identity and lived experiences. This talk examines fundamental principles of equity and inclusion with the goal of exploring how faculty can foster more effective learning environments. Growing evidence suggests that effective classrooms not only present information clearly, but create environments in which students are actively engaged. Active participation, however, brings risk of misstep, and the contidence to speak one’s mind is strongly connected to one’s identity and feeling of belonging. To develop effective classroom practices, therefore, requires sensitivity to underlying causes of student disengagement. Dr. Franklin reviews the research on historically marginalized students perceptions of learning environments, highlighting behaviors that unintentionally but significantly (and differentially) affect students.
Xamaka LaTham
Sales and Marketing Manager at Brandmotion
Dr. Sibrina Collins will discuss effective strategies to involve undergraduates in the writing and research process, practices for inclusive excellence(lE) and collaborating with faculty teaching at R1 institutions.
Aidan J. Beatty
Lecturer & Senior Academic Adviser, Dept. of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Mayor Kenson J. Siver
City of Southfield
Dr. Siver will talk about a “Catch Me if You Can” story set in an earlier age.
Born in 1838, Edwin Turner Osbaldeston encountered many walls in his life. Born into near poverty in working class Great Britain, he was able scale the walls of his social standing as a charming, resourceful rogue. Ship’s surgeon, deserter from the Royal Artillery, world traveler, “professor,” con artist and impostor, he crossed many international borders. When authors caught up with Osbaldeston, he managed numerous escapes from prison and captivity. The one wall he was not able to scale was his affliction with Narcissistic Personality Disorder that was at the root of his many troubles and the alienation from family and associates.
Annie Bolotin
PhD Candidate, English Language and Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In the Western tradition, the epic genre establishes and reproduces national identity by connecting a glorious, mythic past with an audience’s present. In Rising, Falling, Hovering, the poet C.D. Wright revises the epic tradition by tracing a national character from the sixteenth century destruction of Tenochtitlan to the twenty-first century invasion of Baghdad. In telling the story of American history from the perspective of its borders and war zones, Wright recasts the ordinary citizen as the epic hero connected to global dynamics through everyday actions. While poetry cannot dismantle walls, at least it can help us understand our history (and future) beyond these boundaries established by the state.
Steven M. Coy, MFA
Assistant Professor
Walls always surround us; they help shape our path through life, literally and metaphorically. Artists have always improvised upon and re-purposed walls in unexpected, creative, and innovative ways. Such purposes range from aesthetic enhancement or altering the visual environment, to social messaging and communication.
In this talk, Steve Coy will address recent developments in the artistically-repurposed wall, drawing on his own creative work and contemporary street art.
Francesca D’Andrea
PhD Candidate
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa, Italy
Since their construction in 271 AD, the walls of Rome have become as eternal as the Imperial City they had to defend. A careful analysis of these walls–their features, motives, and meanings as a fortification system–can thus reveal the ancient history of Rome. In this talk, Francesca D’Andrea will discuss how these walls shaped the appearance and influenced the identity of Rome during the delicate transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. While this story begins with a city without walls, it ends with a wall as a symbol of a city.
Vivian Kao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Composition
“Design thinking” is a term used in the engineering sciences, architecture, and business fields to refer to the process of generating tangible solutions to complex problems. Recently, design thinking has been applied to the field of Writing Studies, for practitioners have found its focus on process, multimodality, and materiality of text useful in expanding the definition of what we do when we write and how we teach writing in the university. This talk explores a hands-on approach to using design as a way to teach structure in college essay writing. Deploying design thinking in the writing classroom allows us to cross the walls of academic disciplines while enhancing the curricular objectives we share.
Dr. John Matsui
Director of the Biology Scholars Program (BSP)
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. John Matsui is co-founder and Director of the Biology Scholars Program (BSP) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Assistant Dean of Biology, in the College of Letters and Science. He serves on national advisory boards to broaden participation in STEM for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is the Associate Editor for the ‘Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in STEM’ journal. In 2015, for his 25 years of work to diversify STEM, President Obama presented him with the NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in the Oval Office.
Since 1992, 3500 Berkeley undergraduates have participated in BSP – 80% first-to-college/low-income, 70% women, and 60% from ethnic groups (African American, Hispanic, and Native American) underrepresented in science. Dr. Matsui’s focus has been to recruit ‘under-valued’ STEM talent into BSP, students who enter Berkeley with lower SAT scores and high school GPAs and are less well-prepared to succeed in STEM majors. In spite of their significant ‘academic deficit,’ BSP members graduate in equal percentages with biology degrees and with equivalent exit GPAs as biology majors-at-large; demonstrating that in the right environment, students from under-resourced backgrounds can attain parity in academic performance with peers from more resource-rich backgrounds. He will share lessons learned from his work regarding how Berkeley can better support the success of all STEM majors.
Andrea Eis
Professor and Director of Cinema Studies
Oakland University
Mycenaean Walls, Strong Women, and the Power of the Imagination
After thousands of years, the Mycenaean world still excludes a palpable, compelling presence – in the massive stones of Cyclopean fortification walls, in the curving embrace of a tholos tomb, even in the low stubble of a palace’s foundation. In two of her experimental art films, Andrea Eis engages with the intense physicality and metaphorical power of these remains. The mute walls become catalysts for the imagination, inspiring meditations on the strength and vitality of two mythic women, Penelope and Clytemnestra, and allowing speculative visions to emerge from the stones.
Dr. Daniel Shargel
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Lawrence Technological University
Imagine that an out of control train is heading down a track, and in a matter of seconds it will kill five innocent, unsuspecting people. You are on a footbridge above the track, and you alone can stop the train, but the only way to stop it is to shove a large individual in front of the train, sending one person to certain death in order to save five others. Would that be right? Obligatory? Permissible? Forbidden? Dilemmas like this provoke strong and contradictory moral judgments. Dr. Shargel will discuss recent findings from psychology and neuroscience on the processes that lead to moral judgments, and argue that the leading theory is confused about the moral role of emotions.
Dr. Benjamin J. Pauli
Assistant Professor of Social Science
Department of Liberal Studies Kettering University, Flint (MI)
On one thing all are agreed: the Flint Water Crisis would not have happened without a fateful encounter between corrosive water and lead pipes. Everything else, however, is up for debate. Was the Flint River treatable to begin with? Who made the key decisions that led to the crisis? Was Flint the victim of a technical blunder or an insidious political agenda? In this presentation, Dr. Ben Pauli argues that correcting the injustice in Flint depends not just on getting the lead out but on explaining how it got in.
Dr. Franco Delogu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Morra Game
Morra is a fast-paced hand game that dates back to the ancient Egypt and that is still played in some Mediterranean areas, especially in Sardinia, Italy. In Morra, two players simultaneously reveals their hand, extending any number of fingers, and call out a number. Any player who successfully guesses the total number of extended fingers scores a point. The analysis of Morra has important implications for the study of consciousness, expertise, social psychology, implicit memory for numeric series and explicit mathematical strategies. Dr. Delogu is coordinating an international team of researchers and students from Lawrence Tech and the University of Cagliari in a study aiming at advance knowledge about the game and its relations with human cognition.
The Study
The analysis of Morra has important implications for the study of consciousness, expertise, social psychology, implicit memory for numeric series and explicit mathematical strategies. Dr. Delogu is coordinating an international team of researchers and students trom Lawrence Tech and the University of Cagliari (Italy) in a study aiming at advancing knowledge about the game and its relations with human cognition.
Dr. Ludger Brinker
Professor of English, Macomb College
Adjunct Professor of English, Lawrence Technological University
For many collectors, the collecting experience is a voyage of discovery – in Ludger Brinker’s case a learning process by which he re-imagined the art culture as it has existed in the city of Detroit from the 1920s onward. As a consequence, the focus is on an abiding sense of place and time – the land, the waters, the industry, the grit of the city as it has been documented by Detroit-area artists both widely recognized and obscure. In this Idea Factory Presentation, Dr. Brinker will offer a collector’s perspective on the history of regionalist art as practiced by Detroit artists.
Panelists:
Ms. Julianne “Julie” Smith
Dr. Paul Kubicek
Dr. Cristian Cantir
The LTU Humanities Department invites students, faculty, and staff to join us for a very special session of our Idea Factory seminar series. Please join us for a panel discussion with three eminent experts in the field of American Foreign Policy, who will survey the state of those relations in 2016 and assess the impact of the Presidential election upon their future course.
Born in 1993, Shemeul lived many lives: merchant, Arabic calligrapher, political advisor to a Beber king in Spain, eventually commander of the Moslem king’s army. Along the way, he introduced many formal innovations to Hebrew Poetry. Nearly 1,000 years later, Yehudah Amichai (born Ludwig Pfeuffer) moved with his family from Nazi Germany to British Mandate Palestine. Amichai would go on to write remarkable contemporary Hebrew Poetry. In this Idea Factory presentation, Dr. Louis Finkelman will explain some of the surprising connections between these two poets, separated by a millenium.
People have enjoyed this truly American art form for ages, but it often defies definition; listeners are not always certain exactly what they are hearing. Is jazz music a “style?” Is it a performance model? The answer is “Yes!”
Sara Lamers
Senior Lecturer in English
Poet Robert Frost argued “if a book of poetry contains 25 poems, the 26th poem ought to be in the book. What, exactly, does he mean by this, and how do poets unify separate poems into a collection? In this talk, Sara Lamers examines the ways in which a poetry collection on both micro-textual and macro-textual levels, using her Something Fierce Beds Down as a case study.
Scott Gerald Shall, AIA
Associate Professor
A meme is a bit-sized morsel of information that is easily shared and reproduced. Tectonics describes the manner in which building components are designed so as to satisfy the practical and poetic concerns. Meme-tectonics shifts the focus of architecture from the production of objects to the dissemination of objects of knowledge. The result is a more socially-responsive approach to design, one that Professor Shall has deployed over the last ten years to develop creative work and communities in need around the world.
A Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Arthur Marotti, Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus, Wayne State University, Dr. Lisa Meruca, Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University, and Dr. Lillian Crum, MFA, Senior Lecturer, LTU.
Dr. Kineta Morgan-Paisley
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
This study will examine the effects of stress on labor and delivery outcome. Specifically, we are trying to identify the various sources of stress which range from those which are very well known (e.g., medical complications) to those which are often overlooked (e.g., the presence of unwanted persons in the delivery room, rude medical staff, extended family requesting constant updates, etc.). We are also trying to identify any protective factors which may serve to buffer the effects of stress.
Dr. Gonzalo Munevar
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
The specialization of the brain’s hemispheres offers some clues about the nature of bipolar disorder. Potential experiments on split-brain patients could help unravel the mystery of consciousness.
Dr. Paul Jaussen
Assistant Professor of Literature
Imagine a crime novel where the murder has already been committed, the killer already identified, the victim already buried. What would be left to tell? In this presentation, Dr. Paul Jaussen argues that Faulkner’s use of narrative devices – that is to say, his style – becomes a crucial way of seeing new events we think we already know.
Corrinne Stavish
Director, Technical, and Professional Communication
Come hear Professor Corinne Stavish tell the remarkable story of the country that saved 98% of its Jewish population during the Holocaust. After her story, Professor Stavish will share insight into the process of researching and writing this story, offering us a chance to reflect on the challenges and responsibilities of historical narrative.
Dr. Franco Delogu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is often considered as a major contributor to the epidemic of overweight and obesity in the USA. The study tested the discriminability of sugar from aspartame in 14 commercially available carbonated soft drinks. In a double blind test, 55 students of sweetness, likability, and to recognize if the drink contains sugar or aspartame. Ratings were made exclusively on the base of drink taste, as color and drink names were unknown to the subjects. Main results indicates that people, when tasting carbonated soft drinks, are not accurate at discriminating sugar from non-caloric sweeteners. Interestingly, however, they systemically prefer sugar without recognizing it.
Melinda Weinstein
Author
When a writer decides to write an epic, how does the tradition, the epics of Homer or Virgil, for example, guide and determine the structure, motifs, and themes of her new artistic creation? How do prior literary examples and immediate story intersect and overlap?
In this presentation, Melinda Weinstein will discuss the relationship between genre and creative license through the example of her novel-in-progress, The Nth Degree . The Nth Degree toggles between immediate tale, set in 1997-1998, and the detail is the pastoral tradition, invented by Theocritus and developed by Virgil and Spenser.
Dr. Daniel Shargel
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
During an intense emotion episode all sorts of things change. After hearing an insulting comment, your blood pressure and heart rate rise, your brows lower and eyes bug out, you become less tolerant of obstacles and more tolerant of risks, and you believe that you deserve an apology. How do all of these symptoms fit together? What part is the emotion? Emotion researchers are surprisingly divided about these basic questions.
Christine Blackwell
Lecturer in English
Conceptual writing is an emerging experimental approach to composing that integrates text with art, science, and new technologies. It is both a subset of digital humanities and expanded writing, with the latter being a concept that begs the question, “What is writing becoming?” or “What will writing be postscript?” Aspects of conceptual writing include transcription, translation, redaction, appropriation, and constrain. Language, art, and technology are constantly changing and advancing and they will be used, explored, and integrated in ways not yet imagined.
“We’re reading and writing more than we have in a generation, but we are reading and writing differently—skimming, parsing, grazing, bookmarking, forwarding, retweeting, reblogging, and spamming language—in ways that aren’t yet recognized as literary.”
– Kenneth Goldsmith
Dr. Jason Barrett
Associate Professor
From Nation State to Islamic State: U.S. Intervention and the Rise of ISIS
This presentation explores Iraq’s origins as a nation state, the effects of U.S. military interventions in 1991-1998 and 2003-2012, the rise of ISIS and the prospects for a 3rd major U.S. military intervention in the region.
Dr. Abigail Heiniger, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer of English
This study explores the way race, citizenship, and romance were developed in the cultural imagination in Brazil and the United States, the two largest slave holding nations in the new world. It compares mainstream and marginalized perspectives in Brazilian and U.S. Fiction between 1850 and 1930.
Dr. Philip Vogt
Associate Professor of History
Socrates develops a fierce attack in the Republic on poets in general, and tragedians in particular. Tragedians are said to be apologists for tyrants. Among poets, Hesiod, Homer, Euripides, and Simonides are named, but the only explicit mention of Sophocles is favorable; the virtuous old man Cephalus quotes Sophocles in the first pages of the book to the effect that one tyrant he has outlived is his own tyrannical sex drive. Elsewhere, the attack on tyranny is developed through marked but implicit references to “Oedipus Tyrannos.” Why Sophocles must be attacked obliquely while horror can be attacked openly has to do with the embarrassingly tyrannical elements in Plato’s own philosophical project, especially the poetic suggestion that Socratic philosophy is itself tyrannical and incestuous in its over-reliance on reason.
Dr. Aleksandra Kuzmanov joined LTU in the fall of 2017. She teaches Biology 1 and Cell Biology courses in the department of Natural Sciences. She earned an MD degree at the University of Belgrade School of Medicine (Serbia) in 2004. After practicing medicine for three years, Dr. Kuzmanov came to the US to study nutrition, and molecular and cellular biology. She received a master’s degree in Human Nutrition in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences in 2014 from the University of Wyoming. Following her graduate studies, she spent three year as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis before moving to LTU. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that promote proper chromosome segregation during male meiosis using the model organism C. elegans . Chromosome segregation errors have an astounding impact on human reproductive health as a primary cause of infertility, recurrent miscarriage and developmental disabilities.
Bruce Pell received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Oakland University in 2010. He then completed his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Arizona State University in 2016. He was a visiting assistant professor at St. Olaf College in Minnesota before coming to Lawrence Technological University in 2019.
His research interests lie at the interface of mathematics and biology. In the broadest sense, he uses data to guide the formulation of mathematical models (usually in the form of partial, ordinary or delay differential equations) to describe, understand or predict biological phenomena arising in ecology, epidemiology and immunology. Recently, he has been modeling the within-host dynamics of plant viruses under different nutrient treatments.
Margaret M. Glembocki, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, CSC, FAANP is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Lawrence Technological University. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Oakland University, her MSN with an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner concentration from Wayne State University, and her BSN from Madonna University.
Dr. Glembocki has extensive experience in academic program development where she has co-developed and implemented a Forensic Nursing program (MSN) as well as developed and granted approval for an Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program (MSN), both at Oakland University. She is also committed to developing innovative ways to educate undergraduate and graduate nursing students and has been enjoying teaching for over a decade.
Dr. Glembocki has held leadership and clinical positions within the service industry of nursing where she led the implementation of Relationship-Based Care in one hospital, managed nursing and advanced practice provider teams with specialties in the emergency department and cardiothoracic surgery, and has always maintained clinical practice. He passion for practice has been cardiothoracic surgery and forensic nursing. Currently, she practices as a Nurse Practitioner in cardiothoracic surgery at Henry Ford Hospital Macomb. Additionally, she served as an officer in the United States Army.
Dr. Glembocki has presented at local, national, and international forums on Relationship-Based Care and practice related to cardiothoracic surgery and forensic nursing and has many publications in both professional journals and books. She is active in professional organizations and has served on various committees for Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners as well as the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Additionally, she has been inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr Glembocki is passionate about advancing professional nursing and works toward empowering nurses everywhere.
Dr. Julia Kiernan is an assistant professor of communication where she coordinates technical and professional communication courses. Her research and teaching are intimately linked; regularly examining the shifting impacts of pedagogical and curricular design in translingual and transnational writing, digital and interdisciplinary humanities and science communication.
Dr. Kiernan’s research methodology is active research, which focuses on the impacts of listening, reflection and feedback throughout learning processes. Her publications have appeared in a number of edited collections, and journals such as Composition Studies , Communication & Language at Work and L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature.
Giulia Lampis is our talented graphic designer! She grew up in Sardinia (Italy) and has lived in several countries before coming to the United States. She is passionate about design and every form of art and music. Giulia finds the art scene in Detroit to be particularly inspiring and is passionate about the rebirth and growth of the city. She enjoys traveling, rock climbing, and Ethiopian food. More of her work can be seen at: www.giulia-lampis.com
In Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication, we explore what makes us uniquely human. Through ancient and modern texts, social norms, and communication, we uncover how these fields are essential to all careers and human endeavors.
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