Syracuse University

Faculty Recognition

Meredith Professors

The following members of the faculty at Syracuse University have been designated Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors and are members of the Meredith Symposium.

Linda Alcoff 1995-1998
Philosophy

Project: Develop a more participatory method of student learning; develop a course on race and racism; and examine the pedagogical effects of using the personal voice in the classroom.

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William Coplin 1995-1998
Public Affairs

Project: Offer new course entitled PSC 300: The Good Society. Students read material about how to improve society and then work on special projects. Inventory the different ways faculty throughout the University use undergraduates as teaching assistants and analyze the relative benefits and costs.

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William Glavin 1995-1998
Magazine    

Glavin Project: Examination of how the computerization of the magazine industry will affect writers and editors and ways to improve the teaching of writing.

 
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Samuel Clemence 1996-1999
Civil Engineering

Clemence Project: Develop and enhance a sense of technical literacy within Syracuse University through a series of lectures developed specifically for "Gateway" (entry level) courses for all Syracuse University students. The lectures emphasize the interconnectedness of engineering and society through a historical perspective in a particular discipline.

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Jerry Evensky 1996-1999
Economics

Evensky Project: Develop a system that allows students to review and assess the patterns of their behavior so that appropriate in-course adjustments can be made and more constructive patterns can be developed.

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Shiu-Kai Chin 1997-2000
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and 
Director, New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE)
Chin
Project: Develop an assessment process to help programs realize their hopes for their students and to prepare our students for life in a society dominated by change and complexity.
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Marvin Druger 1997-2000
Biology/Science Teaching Druger

Project: Develop a leadership course for undergraduates; and develop a lecture series that enables advanced Ph.D. students to present their research and to talk about graduate school to undergraduates.

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William Banks 1998-2001
Law

Banks Project: Develop one or more new courses for learning communities that offer graduate students from a range of disciplines an opportunity to learn about issues, developments, and perspectives at the intersection of those disciplines and law.

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Gerardine Clark 1998-2001
Drama

Project: Develop DRA 581: Playwriting: Topics of Diversity Campus Life. From the scripts that evolve as the students' final assignment, a number are chosen for public performance as part of the Black Box Theatre and Syracuse Stage/SU Drama's New Play Festival.

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Sari Biklen 1999-2002
Education/Cultural Foundations    

Biklen Project: Establish a colloquium in which faculty and students not connected with each other talk about their struggles with teaching and learning, their views of the roles of faculty and students, and their visions of a good classroom experience.

 
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Barry Davidson 1999-2002
Mechanical, Aerospace & Manufacturing Engineering  

Davidson Project: Develop a program to encourage and support the participation of undergraduate students in faculty-mentored research projects. The goal is to create a weekend-long symposium in which all undergraduates that are engaged in research may present their work to faculty, students and the outside community.

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Larry Lewandowski 2000-2003
Psychology

Lewandowski Project: Develop training initiatives for graduate teaching assistants, initially in the psychology department, with eventual generalization to other graduate TAs. In the first year, several subcommittees (comprised of a faculty member, graduate TA and undergraduate student) will address one initiative and develop a plan to meet a particular training objective. The plans will be implemented in the second year and disseminated in the 2nd and 3rd years.

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Shobha Bhatia 2000-2003
Civil Engineering

Bhatia Project: Study the role of learning communities and mentoring on women in science and engineering; and examine their effects on women's learning processes and outcomes.

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David Bennett 2001-2004Bennett
History

 Project: Develop a seminar on lecturing for interested graduate students and junior faculty focusing on discussing the ways to effectively present material in a lecture course.

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Jerry Mager 2001-2004Mager
Teaching and Leadership

Project: Develop a two-way partnership between Syracuse University and New York City schools to provide SU students a semester of guided student teaching in selected City schools.

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 Kristi Andersen 2002-2005Andersen
Political Science Project: Develop a handbook or manual of indicators of quality teaching that could be used by department chairs, deans and committees to evaluate faculty.
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Sarah H. Ramsey 2002-2005
Law Ramsey

Project: Promote enhanced interdisciplinary education at the graduate level with particular emphasis on professional roles and collaborative work. Implement mechanisms for building understanding about the interplay of disciplinary training and interdisciplinary effort.
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Stuart Bretschneider 2003-2006
Public Administration and Center for Technology and Information Bretschneider Project: Develop and distribute curricular materials on the development and use of a group project activity based on teaching that will address real projects for a real purpose. A key feature of the teams is that they will be leaderless in that the professor will not appoint anyone to lead the team. It will be the responsibility of the team to address its internal management and organizational issues.
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Joanna O. Masingila 2003-2006
Mathematics and Math Education Masingila Project: Work with professors teaching Gateway courses to develop multimedia mini-case studies to use in preparing teaching assistants to teach in those courses. Each mini-case will consist of 20-30 minutes of classroom video, along with reflections and anticipations of the teacher and study questions.
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Douglas Armstrong 2004-2007
Anthropology Armstrong Project: Classroom research and Community Outreach: Caribbean Heritage Preservation Policy Project and Public Interpretation at the Harriet Tubman Home.
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Micere Githae Mugo 2004-2007
African American Studies Mugo Project: Development of a course entitled "Interventionist Debating" to be used to help break the "negative silences that keep the various interest groups apart" while providing students with training in public speaking, debating, and other skills needed to find a collective solution to issues of diversity.
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Gary Radke 2005-2008
Fine Arts Radke Project: Work with and mentor colleagues across the University to develop courses that consider cross-disciplinary perspectives and incorporate travel as a key tool for expanding student and teacher knowledge and interaction.
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Arlene Kanter  2005-2008
Law Kanter

Project: To establish a university-wide Disability Studies Program that will be integrated into the overall mission of Syracuse University and that will advance our standing as the leading university Disability Studies Program in the United States and internationally.

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Ann Munly  2006-2009
Architecture Munly

Project: "8+6 Architectural Conversations in the City," a new course engaging students in eight interdisciplinary conversations and six site visits that will help non-architecture students develop architectural 'literacy,' aiding them to interpret and contribute to the future urban settings where they live.

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Ruth Small  2006-2009
Information Studies Small

Project: E*LIT (Enriching Literacy through Information Technology) brings together reading, research, technology and motivation to create a framework for University students to work with diverse children in the community.

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Madonna Harrington Meyer  2007-2010
Sociology Meyer

Project: Facilitate greater integration of real-world research cases into graduate quantitative methods courses and helping other faculty members at SU identify and create effective Scholarship in Action learning opportunities for their students.

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Amardo Rodriguez  2007-2010
Communication and Rhetorical Studies Rodriguez

Project: Creation of a new Innovation and Design minor in VPA in order to "introduce students to the study of innovation and the theoretical, conceptual and experiential challenges that attend to it in its historical, social, political, geographical and communicational contexts."

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Sharon Hollenback  2008-2011
Public Communication  Hollenback

Project: “World of the Olympics: Issues and Controversies of the Games,” a new course open to students from all majors that will focus on important issues related to the games and the broader Olympic movement, including nationalism, historical boycotts and political conflicts, and performance-enhancing drugs, among other topics.

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Eric Lui  2008-2011
Civil & Environmental Engineering Lui

Project: Creation of an elective course to bridge the technical and non-technical components within studies of sustainable development and technology. Open to all majors, the course will allow students to take a holistic approach to examine the various elements of sustainable environments.

 

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James T. Spencer  2009-2012
Chemistry& Forensic Science Spencer

 

 

Project: New classroom materials for use in large introductory science courses including a textbook, casebook, creative mock-trial crime scene modules, and laboratory materials which will be shared with high school and middle school teachers, along with training opportunities for those who use them.

 



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Donald Siegel 2009-2012
Earth Sciences  Siegel

Project: Develop a course focused on water in all its forms and uses on a global scale—including the science of water and its movement globally and locally in the hydrologic cycle; the use and availability of water by humans and ecosystems; and past, present and future water policy, ethics, and disputes. If possible, "World Water" will include a 10-day trip to China where students can investigate water use in the Yangtze River system.

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Helen Doerr 2010-2013
Mathematics, Teaching & Leadership

Project: Create a model for mentoring graduate Doerrstudents who are preparing to teach in STEM disiciplines, using reseach-based approaches and activities. Seminars and colloquia will focus on engaging learners through dialogue and attentive listening and experiment with technology-supported class and out-of-class practices for learning.  

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Margaret Himley 2010-2013
Writing & Rhetoric, LGBT Studies

Project: Create an interdisciplinary CAS course Himley
in which
 students would do archival and
secondary research into the activist histories of Syracuse and
Syracuse University, produce written and visual texts, and contribute to a digital archive (or ‘knowledge commons’) of this work for faculty and local educators to use and extend. 

 

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Sandra Lane 2011-2014
Public Health & Anthropology

Project:  A proponent of experiential learning and community action Laneresearch, Professor Lane will share models and strategies for student-led, participatory, community-engaged scholarship with Syracuse faculty in workshops and other types of collaboration. Her contention is that this pedagogy can be applied to any discipline and can lead to high levels of student engagement and mutually beneficial interaction with community partners.

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Norman Kutcher 2011-2014
History

Kutcher Project: As universities become increasingly diverse, students with cultural “heritage” related to particular subject areas is creating interesting learning opportunities in fields such as history. This project will explore “heritage learning” across the SU campus to understand the experiences, needs, and concerns of “heritage learners” and devise strategies to address them.  

 

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Jonathan Massey 2012-2015
Architecture

Project:  "Learning through Engaged Urban History Research," will connect students with faculty, scholars and community members to investigate the urban history of upstate New York since the New Deal. Massey hopes to launch a campus-wide conversation about the making of metropolitan America and publish the resulting work as a historical atlas of the Erie Canal Corridor as well as establishing a permanent transdisciplinary course focused on US urban history of this period.

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Burak Kazaz 2012-2015
Whitman School

KazazProject:  “Accelerate SU–Growing and Sustaining Your Start-up!” is a course  that will help Central New York startups accelerate their growth into healthy, sustainable businesses. Kazaz plans to collaborate with The Tech Garden located in downtown Syracuse. Supported by the School of Information Studies (iSchool), this “incubator” brings together students, faculty, and mentors from various schools including the Smith College of Engineering, the Whitman School of Management, the Newhouse School of Public Communications and the College of  Visual and Performing Arts.

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