STEM Symposium 2009
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
University of Maryland University College Inn & Conference Center
8:00 | 9:00 am | Breakfast & Registration (Ballroom) |
9:00 | 9:20 am | Welcome by President Susan Aldridge, UMUC Introduction by Chancellor William Kirwan, USM Langenberg Award: Chancellor Emeritus Donald Langenberg presenting |
9:20 | 10:20 am | Langenberg Lecture by Dr. P. Uri Treisman, Executive Director of Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin, "On Innovation in American Math and Science Education: An Activist Professor Reflects on His Practice" Slides |
10:20 | 10:45 am | Remarks by Governor Martin O'Malley |
10:45 | 11:15 am | Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan |
11:15 | 11:30 am | Break |
11:30 am | 12:30 pm | CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION I |
1. Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining STEM Majors and Increasing
Under-represented Student Enrollments in the STEM Pipeline Keith Harmon, Assistant Director, and Mitsue Wiggs, Academic Coordinator, the Meyerhoff Program, UMBC Mary Soo Hon, Student, Coppin State University Alana Johnson, Coordinator for Women in Engineering, UMCP | |
2. Proposals for Recruiting STEM Majors into Teaching/Alternative Pathways
into STEM Teaching Donna Wiseman, Dean of Education, UMCP Mary Rivkin, Associate Professor of Education, Susan Blunck, Associate Professor of Education, and Ann Spence, PI of UMBC/BCPS STEM Program, UMBC | |
3. Developing and Sustaining STEM Partnerships: Business, Education,
and Community Daniel Chazan, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, UMCP Don Thomas, Director, Hackerman Academy of Math & Science, Towson University Mary Stapleton, Director of Education and Outreach, UMBI | |
4. Funding Opportunities for STEM Education Jim Hamos, Program Officer, National Science Foundation Peggi Zelinko, Program Director, U.S. Department of Education | |
5. Asking Tough Questions: Politics & Structures that Prevent Systemic Changes Donald Langenberg, Chancellor Emeritus, USM David Vanko, Acting Dean, Science & Mathematics, Towson University | |
6. Connecting STEM Education to the Workforce James Saunders, MB3 Director, Towson University Rana Khan, Director, Biotechnology Program, UMUC Eric Seleznow, Executive Director, Governor's Workforce Investment Board, DLLR | |
12:30 | 2:00 pm | Lunch w/Discussion Panel (Ballroom) Welcome by Cliff Kendall, Chairman of the USM Board of Regents Remarks by Regent Norman Augustine, "Education and Prosperity"the Chicken or the Egg?" Irv Goldstein, Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, introducing distinguished panel: Wanda Ward, Acting Assistant Director for NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources Rizwan Siddiqi, Vice President, EBA Engineering, Inc. Ann Coren, Science Teacher, Montgomery County Public Schools Nancy Grasmick, Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
Panel Wrap-up: |
2:00 | 2:15 pm | Break |
2:15 | 3:15 pm | CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION II |
1. Pre-College/Bridge and Transfer Programs in STEM Anisha Campbell, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bowie State University Christine Barrow, Acting Chair, Department of Biological Sciences & Director, STEM Resource Center, PGCC Jane Wolfson, Director, Environmental Science and Studies Program and Annie McMahon, Program Coordinator, Towson Opportunities in STEM (TOPS) Program, Towson University | |
2. STEM Course Reform Initiatives Jennifer Hearne, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, UMES Robert Briber, Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Jordan Goodman, Professor and Former Chair, Physics Department, UMCP | |
3. Expanding Teaching and Research Opportunities for STEM Undergraduates Joseph Okoh, Department Chair, Natural Sciences & Director of MARCU* (Star) Program, UMES Jim Purtillo, Professor of Computer Science, UMCP | |
4. STEM Pipelines to Graduate Programs Joelle Presson, Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Academic Programs, College of Chemical and Life Sciences, UMCP Donald Langenberg, Chancellor Emeritus, USM | |
5. Recruiting STEM Majors into Teaching/Alternative Pathways into STEM Teaching Ken Witmer, Dean of Education and Joe Hoffman, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Frostburg State University Dennis Pataniczek, Dean of Education and Karen Olmstead, Dean of Henson School of Science & Technology, Salisbury University | |
3:15 | 3:30 pm | Break |
3:30 | 4:00 pm | Wrap-up and Next Steps: Nancy Shapiro |
Comments: Uri Treisman | |
Next Steps: William Kirwan |