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CSU selected to participate in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Engaging Departments Institute


Central State University is one of 106 campuses to participate in the Institute.


The Central State University team will consist of faculty to include: Dr. Lovette Chinwah, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Suzanne Seleem, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences; Assistant Professor Dr. Kimberly Kendricks, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences; and Assistant Professors Drs. Xiafong Wei and DeBonne Wishart, Department for Water Resources Management. Dr. Juliette Bell, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, will act as one of the Institute’s faculty members.


The purpose of the Institute is to advance integrated and engaged learning in and across disciplines, to help institutions integrate major programs with general education, and to access broad student learning outcomes within individual departments and majors.


Excellence in teaching


Dr. Kimberly Kendricks, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has received the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology award. The award was presented during a special ceremony held at the 22nd International Conference on College Teaching and Learning in


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Jacksonville, Florida in early April. The conference brought together more than 800 faculty from colleges and universities in 20 different countries. A total of 19 colleges and universities nominated faculty to receive awards, representing institutions throughout the world.


Summer research for STEM women faculty at CSU


Dr. Suzanne Seleem published with two colleagues a paper in the Journal of Chemical Education, an American Chemical Society publication, on an organic Birch reaction modified to be an undergraduate solvated electrons organic chemistry laboratory experiment for chemistry and biochemistry majors.


Dr. Tamra Ragland received a $3,000 grant to continue work related to her dissertation “If I Were the Teacher: African American Students’ Classroom Perceptions & Attitudes in Mathematics.”


Dr. Wanda Hadley, Publication– The transition and adjustment of first-year students with specific learning disabilities: A longitudinal study. The Journal of College Orientation and Transition, 17 (1), 31-44.


Dr. Kim Hitchcock, traveled to the University of Wisconsin (UW) to investigate complementary and alternative techniques to overcome negative behaviors in African American college students. Dr. Hitchcock and a colleague studied the degree to which aspects of African American Culture and spirituality


and black racial identity influence hypnotic susceptibility, inner subjective experiences and hypnotic response, and hypnotic depth in African American college students compared to white college students.


Dr. Kimberly Kendricks collaborated with Dr. Volkan Isler, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, to apply prior research in Groebner Basis Theory to an evasion gamer system. In addition, Dr. Kendricks submitted four manuscripts to the following journals: MSS Battlespace Acoustics & Magnetic Sensors Journal, Journal of Biomechanics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the Journal of College Science Teaching.


Dr. Xiaofang Wei is currently engaged in an on-going research project “Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration” funded by the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). The project aims to estimate the evapotranspiration rate and develop the water budget model over the lower Colorado River basin using advanced remote sensing techniques.


Dr. Cadance Lowell was chosen by the Dayton Regional STEM Center to represent CSU as a STEM Fellow. Dr. Lowell will serve the K-12 community by contributing to the development of STEM curriculums, serving as a teaching aid for teachers in the classroom and stimulating interest in STEM through targeted talks and presentations to students and teachers.


Detailed information about CSU STEM women faculty can be found in the summer edition of the Advance: Leader newsletter, kkendricks@centralstate.edu


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