Faculty & Staff Activities April 23
Center for Academic Support and Advising
• Ms. LaDonna L. Bridges, director of academic support and disability services, has been elected to the national leadership position of Chair of the Advising Students with Disabilities of the Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Bridges will assume this leadership role at the end of the NACADA Annual Conference to be held in Chicago in October and serve in this position until October 2010.
- Art and Music Department
• Professor John Anderson has several sculptures in an invitational group show, “Free Reign,” at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA, throughout the month of April. He will also have an experimental animation included in the Santa Cruz Film Festival in California beginning May 9.
- Biology Department
• Dr. Margaret Carroll, chair, hosted the annual conference of the Massachusetts Association of Biology Teachers (MABT) at FSC March 15. The theme of the conference was “Pandemics and Pandemonium.” There were approximately 60 participants, primarily high school teachers and some college faculty. Among alumni attending were high school teachers Loreen Meyer,’83 (member of the MABT board of directors), and Marguerite Marcoux, ’00, and Rachel Boyce, ’05, a research assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health.
- Chemistry and Food Science Department
• Dr. Carol Russell, chair, was one of the coordinators of the State Science Olympiad for high school students from around the state, held on the FSC campus March 15. Students from 35 high schools across Massachusetts participated. The Science Olympiad was created in 1983, with the goal of improving the quality of science education. It has members in all 50 states. This was the 12th successive year that the State Olympiad was held at the College.
- History Department
• Dr. Jon Huibregtse, chair, co-chaired a high school history conference, in partnership with Laura Noon, ’06, a high school history teacher, at FSC March 20. The conference, attended by about 300 high school students, was hosted by the New England History Teachers Association with support from the FSC academic affairs office. The topic of the conference was “The Cold War at 60,” also the theme of the fall issue of the New England Journal of History which Huibregtse edits. He gave a talk entitled “The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement.” Sharon Ann Payne Kelly, ’00, an archivist at the JFK Presidential Library, led one of the breakout sessions for teachers.
- Nursing Department
• Dr. Susan Conrad, chair, was awarded the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation Leadership award March 13 for her efforts at FSC over the past three years to redress the shortage of nurse educators in the state: she has developed a nurse educator’s certificate program, launched online courses to accommodate nurses’ busy schedules, and created a two-year Master of Science in Nursing program.