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Faculty spotlights
Nancy Ohanian
In 2018, The National Press Foundation appear that Art Professor, Nancy Ohanian, whose syndicated political illustrations are published in some 250 newspapers each calendar week, has won the prestigious Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Honour for Editorial Cartoons.
Ohanian was honored during an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., for a body of work that has skewered elected officials from both major parties but that take found a peculiarly rich target with President Donald Trump.
"As a political cartoonist, everything can be a symbol," she said. "There's a divergence between looking at an object every bit its identity and seeing it as a symbol that might imply something else."
Edelman CCCA Dean Sanford Tweedie said, "That Nancy is the starting time full-time educator to win this award in its well-nigh 30-yr history speaks not only to her prominence in the field and the skill of her artistry, just also to her tremendous dedication to her arts and crafts. Nancy has a keen heart for capturing the political moment through imagery that is both dynamic and compelling."
Jade Jones
In 2018-2019 Edelman CCCA welcomed its outset Dean'southward Boyfriend, a position designed to provide a promising new instructor with didactics opportunities, mentoring and professional evolution.
Jade Jones joined the Writing Arts Section, where she taught and worked alongside the graduate students in the M.A. in Writing Arts' Teaching Experience Program. "It's fulfilling to have students find their passions through writing," Jones said.
Jones received her undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University. Earlier coming to Rowan, she earned her Chiliad.F.A. at the Academy of Iowa where she studied fiction. In 2019, Jones won the prestigious PEN Laurels for her short story "Today, Yous're a Black Revolutionary" about a girl named Bri who climbs a flagpole in Southward Carolina and removes a Confederate Flag.
"I have been widely inspired both by my community of faculty and the Rowan community equally a whole," she said. "Information technology has been slap-up to see how I have grown as an instructor, which would not accept been able to happen without the invaluable support system I accept establish at Rowan."
Heather Lanier
From online mag Slate to The New York Times , Banana Professor Heather Lanier is getting cracking reviews for her memoir, Raising a Rare Girl .
Lanier non simply is, in fact, raising a rare girl, only has written a rare book.
The memoir virtually her daughter, Fiona, is a deeply personal business relationship that details the struggles and joys of parenting a child with a very rare condition, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, but too lays blank some of the across hurtful experiences that she and other parents of Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome children experience.
Lanier, who detailed some of her experiences during a 2017 TED talk that has had more than than ii.five meg views to date, said following Fiona's nascency, when she weighed simply four pounds, 12 ounces, her doctor noted the depression nascence weight, then opined the reason: "either bad seed or bad soil."
"Then there was the doctor, later on when she was virtually three, who just spontaneously started pontificating (concerning of nothing) virtually whether parents of disabled kids had the correct to consider euthanasia," she said. This attitude, information technology seemed, was non rare.
"Among my fellow Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome parents, I've heard horror stories," she writes in the volume.
Write from the centre
A kinesthesia member within Rowan'southward writing arts programme in the Ric Edelman Higher of Communication & Creative Arts , Lanier teaches her students to write from and about their experiences; to use pain—and joy—as motivation; and to be honest, with themselves and their readers. And clearly that is what she's done with Raising a Rare Girl .
Released July 7 by Penguin Printing, promotional copy on her publisher's site begins to describe Lanier'south feel, from eating organic and "trying to do everything right" during her pregnancy to the shattering diagnosis shortly before commitment that not only would she not have a "Super Babe" but that her daughter might not achieve her second altogether.
"In writing the volume by and large I'g trying to write a good story," Lanier said. "But I am trying to address the pressure of what a child should do and when."
And she institute that the clinical, detached nature of some physicians and therapists tin can miss a person for who he or she is.
"It turned out my babe girl loved reggae," she told audience members during the TED talk. "And her onyx eyes eventually turned the almost stunning Lake Tahoe blue" from which "she loved to gaze intently into other people'south eyes."
Her book about Fiona, now eight, began as a blog, Star In Her Heart , simply an outlet for her experience when Fiona was nearly one year erstwhile that sometimes drew equally many every bit 200,000 readers.
"I wanted to reach those tired parents scrolling on the net at 2 a.thou., seeking a connection," she said.
Reviewing Raising a Rare Girl in The New York Times , Kate Braestrup declared that, "Lanier's writing is clean and beautiful." On August xiii, the Times followed upwards the review by naming the book one of ten "NY Times Editor's Choice Picks" for the week.
Slate 's reviewer called Raising a Rare Girl "a remarkable book...as I read it, I constitute myself thinking that all expectant and new parents should read it."
Lanier, who previously penned two laurels-winning poetry chapbooks, Heart-Shaped Bed in Hiroshima and The Story You Tell Yourself , said she's gratified for the nice things others have written about her work but believes reviewers and readers are ultimately reacting to her memoir because it rings true.
"I tell students that the best work oft comes from where you feel a trivial raw," she said. "The best writing often comes from a place of deep vulnerability. That'due south a lesson in every creative writing course I teach."
Keir Politz & Jonathan Stonemason
In February, students and faculty in the Radio, Idiot box & Film department won acclaim in the prestigious annual Circulate Education Association's Festival of Media Arts Awards competition and for high quality reportage.
Amongst the BEA winners, writer/manager Keir Politz and producer Jonathan Mason, assistant professor and associate professor, won the Best of Festival Faculty Picture show Laurels for Entropia , a narrative shot partly off campus in Glassboro and at the Edelman Fossil Park in Mantua Township. The film follows the trials of a Polish piano tuner in search of truth and beauty.
Politz also won an Accolade of Excellence for his television screenplay for Land of the Blind.
One of the nigh prestigious faculty and student media competitions in the country, the festival, part of the Circulate Education Association Briefing, recognized winners during an April awards program in Las Vegas.
Edelman CCCA Dean Sanford Tweedie said the recent accolades befit programs that, for decades, have produced communicators of the highest caliber.
"I'g very proud," Tweedie said. "Our students and faculty love what they do, they work hard at it, and the results speak for themselves. But it's as well nice to be recognized."
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New full-time faculty
John Akass(Lecturer,Radio, Television & Motion picture) is the coordinator of Rowan Productions at Rowan Academy. Hailing from the UK, Akass is a producer, entrepreneur and educator with near xl years professional feel in the Great britain media industry, working as a reporter, news editor, editor and producer for titles including the Daily Mirror, Television receiver-AM, Talk Radio and BBC Earth Service Television. He has run his own digital agency, Media Citizens, for the past 20 years, delivering corporate films, web and app publishing services and digital media training for digital inclusion programs. Akass has also worked equally a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University of the Arts, London and produced a short film for picture palace.
Kim Akass (Professor, Radio, Tv & Motion picture) came to Rowan from the UK and is a founding editor of the tv journal Critical Studies in Television (SAGE), editor of the website CSTonline and a series editor of t he "Reading Contemporary Boob tube" for IB Tauris. She is currently researching the representation of motherhood on television for a forthcoming book From Here to Motherhood:Representations of Motherhood in the Media.
Emily Baker(Lecturer, Art) received her BFA in Interior Design from California Country University, Chico and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016 where she focused on operation, installation and statuary casting. She has shown her piece of work nationally and was recently accepted to spend time with Dupont's nylon archives at the Hagley Museum in Delaware. In her spare fourth dimension, she travels to attend cast iron pours and conferences throughout the United states and is gearing up to present work at the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Berlin, Germany. Earlier relocating to New Bailiwick of jersey, she was the Foundry Studio Creative person at Salem Art Works in Salem, NY, a Visual Artist at The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and was the recipient of a micro-residency at The Steel 1000, in Providence, RI. She was also awarded a residency at The Santa Fe Art Institute during their 2020 Labor theme. She recently joined the kinesthesia at Rowan University in the fall of 2020 as the Sculpture Area Coordinator and a Full-Time Lecturer.
Angela Cirucci (AssistantProfessor,Communication Studies) is a digital media scholar focusing on the symbolic meaning of programming languages, the intersection of institutional practice and user knowledge, and user experience. Often focusing on identity, Dr. Cirucci has a passion for studying how digital spaces affect the lives of marginalized communities. In addition to conducting research and education, she loves to travel. So far she has visited x US National Parks, 27 states and 14 countries.
Miles Coleman(AssistantProfessor,Communication Studies) is an award-winning rhetoric scholar, specializing in rhetoric of scientific discipline, digital rhetoric and communication ethics. He has an involvement in problems of public scientific discipline literacy and responsible argue in offline and online contexts. When non in the function, you can find him playing music or adventuring with his family.
Nicholas DiUlio (Lecturer, Journalism) has taught journalism at Rowan since 2008 and focuses on teaching students how to arts and crafts innovative digital-start nonfiction storytelling and long-form narrative journalism. In addition to his role as lecturer, DiUlio is the old editor ofSouth Jersey Magazine and an honor-winning journalist with more than fifteen years of experience whose work has appeared in publications such every bitPhiladelphia Magazine,New Bailiwick of jersey Monthly and Slate.com. He teaches Digital Journalism I & II, Magazine Article Writing, and Media Ethics and he is the faculty counselor for Rowan University'southward student newspaper,The Whit.
Jenny Drumgoole (Assistant Professor, Fine art) i s a Philadelphia artist who inserts herself into marginal spaces for pseudo-celebrity within popular civilisation. Her most recent video-based performance piece of work involves the artist physically and nearly infiltrating competitive events with subversive art actions which question our obsessions with celebrity, desire and the limits and illusions of individuality in popular civilisation. Drumgoole received her MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2006.
Robby Gilbert (Banana Professor, Radio, Television receiver & Film)
Amanda Haruch(Lecturer, Writing Arts)is a graduate of the Writing Arts department and rejoined the Rowan Academy community afterwards graduating with her MA in English from the University of Idaho. She now teaches the courses she loved the most as a student: those involving technologies and writing. Exterior of pedagogy Writing with Technologies and Writing, Inquiry, and Technology she teaches courses in the First-Year Writing program and brings her dearest for technology into the limerick classroom.
Cherita Harrell (Lecturer, Writing Arts)earned her MFA in Artistic Writing at Rutgers University-Camden and a Master of Science in Instruction at Walden Academy. She graduated summa cum laude from Rowan University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Writing Arts and was the recipient of theExcellence in Writing Arts Award in 2013. She is a doctoral candidate at Walden Academy in the Ed.D. programme for Reading, Literacy and Assessment. Harrell'due south scholarly interests include literacy and assessment, critical race theory and blackness feminist thought. Her research explores the relationship betwixt black feminist idea and creative writing; specifically, how artistic writing coursework rooted in black feminist idea may help to amend the literacy development of students of color, besides every bit create spaces that allow for the exploration of students' lived experiences through forms of expression, such as oral stories, narratives, visual media and other literary contributions.
Nina Isaacson (Lecturer,Radio, Goggle box & Pic) is a filmmaker and visual artist with significant artistic practices in video, painting, photography and comics. Her motion-picture show and video works accept exhibited at the Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia and at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, OR. Her moving-picture show production credits include executive and lead creative roles on honor-winning fiction, documentary and hybrid films, which have screened internationally. In 2015 Nina founded Flamethrower Films, a production company and constraints-based incubator of experimental film and interdisciplinary projects. Isaacson teaches Foundations of Media Production and Filmmaking 1.
Jennifer Kitson (Banana Professor, Art) is an urban, cultural geographer who as well teaches in theGeography, Planning, & Sustainability section. She studies social and environmental issues through the embodied feel of place. Dr. Kitson contributes to the geohumanities, a field at the nexus of geography, art and humanities scholarship, through creative and sensory engagements with space, identify and environs.
Yannick Kluch (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies & Atomic number 82 Kinesthesia Consultant for Social Touch on)previously worked at the Office of Inclusion at the National Collegiate Athletic Clan (NCAA). Originally from Deutschland, his teaching and enquiry focus on equity, multifariousness and inclusion in athletics, athlete activism, critical sports communication instruction and identity construction in sport. He is likewise the lead faculty consultant on social impact the Centre for Sports Advice & Social Impact. In 2020, Kluch was appointed to serve on the inaugural Team U.s.a. Council on Racial and Social Justice, convened past the United States Olympic & Paralympic Commission.
Heather Kirn Lanier(Assistant Professor, Writing Arts) is an laurels-winning essayist, memoirist, and poet. She's the writer of two honor-winning poetry books, The Story You lot Tell Yourself and Eye-Shaped Bed in Hiroshima. Her memoir, Raising a Rare Girl , was released this summertime and her related TED talk, "'Good' and 'Bad' Are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves," has been viewed over two 1000000 times.
SoYoung Lee (AssistantProfessor, Public Relations & Advertizement) received her G.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lee'due south interests are focused on strategic and marketing communications in a brand crisis, brand-consumer relationships, digital media and consumer psychology. She specializes in digital media and psychology and how psychological variables influence the effectiveness of marketing and brand strategic communications. Her recent publications announced in journals such every bit theInternational Journal of Advertizement, Journal of Business Ethics, and Public Relations Review. Dr. Lee also has presented research papers at The American University of Advert (AAA), American Marketing Association (AMA), and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Paul Monticone (Assistant Professor, Radio, Television set & Motion-picture show)is a film and media historian whose research primarily centers on the industrial and cultural institutions of the Hollywood studio era. His research besides includes genre and aesthetics, nontheatrical cinema (industrial, educational, ad), and motion-picture show historiography. His work has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Quarterly Review of Motion-picture show and Video, and Behind the Silver Screen: Editing and Visual Effects (Rutgers, 2015).
Jaclyn Partyka (Lecturer, Writing Arts) joins the Writing Arts Department from the School of Critical Studies at the University of the Arts and the English Department at Temple University. She teaches in the First-Year Writing program, where she works to foster cogitating approaches to digital literacy within the writing process. Her inquiry focuses on authorship, genre and contemporary multimodal literacies. Dr. Partyka'due south scholarly writing has appeared inContemporary Literature and Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth Globe (2018) and she has forthcoming chapters in the edited collectionsTrump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film and Television receiver (2020) andReading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authorization Fictionality.
Juliana Rausch (Lecturer, Writing Arts)
J ulia Richmond (Assistant Professor, Public Relations & Advertising) received herPh.D. from Drexel University. Dr. Richmond teaches undergraduate Public Relations and is affiliated with Rowan'south interdisciplinary Sports Communication and Media program housed in the Ric Edelman Higher of Communication and Artistic Arts. Before completing her doctorate, Dr. Richmond worked equally a social media coordinator and communication consultant for various clients in Philadelphia. Her academic research is situated at the intersection of crisis communication, sports communication and critical studies. When she is not didactics or researching, she enjoys watching Rowan's Women's Basketball game.
Catherine Romano(Lecturer, Writing Arts) has been office of the kinesthesia at Rowan since 2015.
Donna Stonemason Sweigart'south(Associate Professor & Section Chair, Art)continuing research ranges from 3D modeled functional object installation to big-scale body adornment/fashion. She uses both traditional methods of fabrication, computer-aided-design/rapid prototyping and alternative digital fabrication techniques to accomplish her works. In summer 2020, Sweigart became the chair of the Fine art Department.
Shari Thou. Thompson (Lecturer,Radio, Television & Picture) earned her B.A. from Georgetown University and an Chiliad.F.A. Temple Academy. Prior to joining the kinesthesia at Rowan, she served as an Banana Professor at Howard University and an adjunct professor at Temple University and Stevenson University. Thompson'south expanse of concentration is scriptwriting for both film and television. Her research interests center on race and representation in film, social outcome documentary and the intersection of film and philosophy in contemporary cinema. Her documentary, The Leesburg 33, screened at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival in Seattle, WA and was circulate on WYBE, formerly a local Philadelphia station and PBS affiliate. She has also presented original research on racial ideology and the Disney Princess at the National Association of African American Studies Conference in Baton Rouge, LA.
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New & innovative programs
Available of Arts in Health & Science Communication
Two y ears ago, no ane foresaw the novel coronavirus and worldwide spread of COVID-19, merely many knew, sooner or later, that a global contagion was coming.
Anticipating health and science challenges—and the ofttimes difficult task of communicating about them— faculty and administrators in Rowan University'south Edelman College of Communication & Artistic Arts began work on a program to train aspiring journalists, bloggers, public relations professionals and others to tell science and medical stories with say-so, clarity and conviction.
The result, a new Available of Arts in Health & Scientific discipline Advice, is now available to students.
"The B.A. in HSC volition set students for STEM employment opportunities in a variety of fields, including media relations, public relations, health and scientific discipline journalism, social media, new media, advertising, advocacy, technical advice and medical writing," said Dr. Joy Cypher, a professor in the Department of Advice Studies who helped develop the new degree. "It will also provide students with a solid foundation for which to apply for graduate and professional programs in areas such equally science advice, public health, scientific writing, pharmaceutical writing, medical school, wellness or environmental advocacy and genetic counseling."
A mong courses created to suppor t the new program are Introduction to Health and Scientific discipline Advice and Developing Health and Science Literacy, both of which are offered this fall, and students interested in the program are encouraged to take one or both of them.
Health communication is inappreciably new, only Cypher said a longstanding public interest in wellness and wellness, the worsening climate crisis, an aging populace and a burgeoning need to explain these and other medical/scientific issues fueled the new program'due south development.
"In the field of communication, health and science is big," said Nix, who is also the coordinator of the new programme. "There are a lot of jobs."
Though plans for the new caste plan began at to the lowest degree ii years before the COVID-xix outbreak, Cypher said the mortiferous pandemic, in which as many equally 25 per centum of those affected worldwide reside in the U.Southward., exemplifies the need for communication professionals who speak scientific discipline.
"With COVID, we encounter how noesis is a moving target," she said. "When we're dealing with something like climatic change or a new drug, it's not oft that we know everything. How nosotros talk about science or surround helps demystify some of the things that science is and is not. Communicators demand to analyze for their audience what is known and what is non known."
Dr. Sanford Tweedie, dean of the Edelman CCCA, said while the new program was not created in response to COVID-19, the outbreak is expanding a need for communicators who understand science and who tin explain medical, health and scientific problems to others.
"I can't imagine much that is more than relevant than health and scientific discipline communication these days," he said.
Comprehending COVID-19
This summer, Rowan introduced an all-new form to students that widely explores the COVID-xix pandemic and its implications moving forward.
Comprehending COVID-19, which is as well running this fall, provides students the opportunity to learn from Rowan faculty who are studying the pandemic from multiple areas and bringing a complex, reasoned look at ramifications of it and what nosotros tin can expect.
The one-credit course was open to all and free to incoming Rowan freshman and transfer students this summer. Information technology is now being offered at the normal tuition rate.
"The world nosotros thought we knew has been upended," said Dr. Sanford Tweedie, Dean of Rowan'south Ric Edelman College of Advice & Creative Arts, where the grade is housed. "Comprehending COVID-nineteen volition help students sympathise the pandemic from scientific, health, economic and media perspectives."
Communication Studies Banana Professor Dr. Miles Coleman leads the class, which includes presentations by kinesthesia from Edelman CCCA, the Higher of Humanities & Social Sciences, the Rohrer College of Business, the College of Science & Mathematics, and the School of Earth & Surroundings.
Presentation topics will include the Biology of SARS-CoV-2, the Geography of Coronavirus, Health Disparities and COVID-nineteen, and Life After COVID-xix.
For a full list of presentation subjects and for more information, get hither.
Esports comes to Rowan
In Fall 2020, Edelman CCCA launched the Esports Industry and Entertainment Experience Certificate of Undergraduate Studies (CUGS). Students tin acquire from those working in the industry such every bit teachers Gidd Sasser, general managing director of Simplicity Esports and motorbus of Flamengo Esports, and Kacey Doran, M.A., vid eo game scholar. The program is role of a partnership with Rowan and NSG (Nerd Street Gamers), the national network of esports facilities and events dedicated to powering competitive opportunities for gamers, to develop one of the region'due south largest collegiate esports gaming and bookish programs. Nerd Street is investing more than $one meg to construct a seven,500-foursquare-foot gaming facility on Rowan Boulevard.
Bachelor of Arts in Applied Professional Communication
Offered as a 3+1 plan at Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC), the Available of Arts in Applied Professional Communication could relieve students an estimated $75,000.
"We wanted to offer an affordable degree that provides students with communication skills to support them in a wide range of professional settings," said Edelman CCCA Dean Sanford Tweedie.
Through the iii+ane program, students nourish classes on the RCBC campus later completing their associate's caste while working toward a bachelor'due south degree from Rowan University. They take their inferior-year courses with RCBC professors, and their senior-year courses on the RCBC campus with Rowan University kinesthesia.
In their senior yr, students in the B.A. in Applied Professional Communication will take 30 credits of specialized coursework focused on digital advice, and designed and taught by Edelman CCCA faculty.
"At a time when colleges across America are rightly being criticized for the high cost of higher education, we continue to identify pathways for students that lower the price of a higher degree," Rowan Academy President Ali Houshmand said.
Center for Sports Advice & Social Touch on's New Team
In June 2019, Emmy Honor-winning sportscaster Neil Hartman was named Director of Rowan University's Eye for Sports Advice & Social Impact. Hartman filled the office after founding manager Dr. John Giannini became the Rowan's athletic director.
"Sports Advice is a constantly changing manufacture," Hartman said. "I'm looking forward to diving in, building on what Dr. Giannini has established and helping Rowan students to be on the forefront of this business concern."
A graduate of Ithaca College, Hartman has worked in sports media for more than than 30 years. Prior to establishing his sports product company Talow Media Group, he spent near two decades as the main news anchor for Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. He was also a sports anchor at CBS3 and WPHL-TV and hosted his own radio shows on sports radio WIP. Hartman has earned four Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards and was named Pennsylvania Sportscaster of the Year past the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Clan for his work.
In addition to Hartman's office equally director, Professor Yannick Kluch has been appointed as the Center'south pb faculty consultant for social impact.
Dr. Kluch comes to Rowan from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) where he worked in the Function of Inclusion. In 2015 he created We Are One Team (WA1T), a first-of-its-kind, award-winning initiative that utilizes sport to promote diversity, inclusion and social justice on American college campuses. He earned his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University.
"In the manufacture today, diversity and inclusion are invaluable assets that benefit both sports professionals and sports organizations. I look forward to working with Neil to continue creating—between the academic program and the Heart—a preeminent sports communication educational feel that promotes positive cultural change non only in the Delaware Valley, simply across the U.s.a.," Kluch said.
Sports Communication and Media
The Center for Sports Communication & Social Impact supports the B.A. Sports Communication and Media (Sports CaM) which was launched in Fall 2018 and focuses on the office communication and media play inside the sports industry.
The program—which has grown from 50 majors in 2018 to 237 majors and 29 minors as of Fall 2020— includes a 39-credit B.A. program and a shorter-sequenced minor to position Sports CaM graduates for an of import marketplace segment. It's coordinated past Dr. Emil Steiner.
Sports CaM students and graduates accept landed internships and jobs with places like the National Football game League, 97.3 ESPN Radio, Atlantic Urban center and the NFL Alumni Clan.
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Research
Bringing STEM careers to rural students: NSF grant will utilize virtual reality videos to expose high schoolers to in-need technical careers
A $496,963 grant from the National Science Foundation volition aid Rowan University researchers from two colleges introduce Stalk careers to high school students in rural S Jersey.
Led by professors Sarah Ferguson and Kara Ieva from the Higher of Didactics and Christopher Winkler from Radio, Boob tube & Film , the grant will utilize virtual reality 360-caste videos to introduce underrepresented students, particularly women and students of color, to in-need Stalk careers.
The team volition help students learn more about careers through v-minute VR videos featuring professionals from underrepresented groups who work as survey mapping technicians, geological and petroleum technicians, quality control analysts and ecology engineering technicians, amid other careers.
Researchers will piece of work with schoolhouse counselors at Delsea, Cumberland and Northern Burlington Canton regional high schools to contain the videos into career development modules for 11th form students.
The projection's title is STEM-VRCE (STEM Through Virtual Reality Career Exploration).
"The types of careers nosotros are highlighting are often overlooked when we talk about Stem careers. They are in high need and growing in our region," says Ferguson, assistant professor of qualitative methods in the Section of Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Education and principal investigator on the grant.
"Many students are not aware of these career options and accept limited access to explore these careers, particularly in rural communities. Yet, these are highly trained technical fields. They pay well and oftentimes require a two-twelvemonth degree or certificate."
The goal of the project is to conduct research on the efficacy of VR videos and career exploration modules in increasing student knowledge of the careers, increasing pupil career decision-making self-efficacy and developing clear event expectations related to the focus careers. The project volition be evaluated externally to assess its overall allegiance, scalability and sustainability. A sample size target of 300 students has been fix for the study.
'An immersive virtual field trip'
Manufacture partners from underrepresented groups in STEM—women and ethnic/racial minorities—will be featured in the 360 VR videos. Winkler, with assistance from undergraduateRadio, Television & Motion-picture show students, will produce the videos, which will showcase each private'due south work and responsibilities in their work environments.
"It'due south an immersive virtual field trip," says Winkler. "That's the goal. Viewers will basically be transported to another space. They volition become a guided, 360-caste, live-activity tour of what these Stem technicians practice in their work. It will be an authentic look at each profession."
Though they can be viewed on phones or online, the videos volition be best experienced with VR headsets. The grant provides funding to buy the equipment for each school in the report.
Ieva, a professor of Counseling in Educational Settings , will develop the curriculum. She will pair the VR videos with a curriculum guide for school counselors and materials for students to employ as they view the videos for each Stem career.
The curriculum will be designed around Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), which identifies career option equally a combination of private cocky-efficacy regarding a career (belief that the individual can practice the work) and event expectations (conventionalities that working in the career will produce positive outcomes for the individual).
"There'southward a huge potential for this blazon of career exploration," says Ieva. "Information technology'due south innovative and it increases opportunities for students. Students need auditory, tactile and visual cues for everything they do. STEM-VRCE will bring existent life to their front door."
According to Ferguson, researchers wait that the project volition increase interest in STEM careers and ultimately increase the Stalk workforce.
Overlooked areas in Stalk careers
"Expanding the social cognition of these fields provides more students with opportunities to undertake meaningful careers in Stalk, improve supporting the STEM workforce and continuing the development of STEM in the United States," says Ferguson, noting that career fields such as surveying and mapping technicians, geological and petroleum technicians, environmental engineering technicians and quality control analysts, have double-digit projected growths in the next 6 years, both in New Jersey and nationally.
Ferguson notes that the careers the report highlights are highly trained technical fields that many students don't know exist.
"These are often disregarded areas in Stem careers," says Ferguson. "We by and large talk about engineers, but non the other professionals who work with them. Yet, engineering science technicians are a necessary component of the field."
Ferguson notes that rural school districts make upwardly over l per centum of the public school districts in the nation. Merely those districts often lack access and funding for special projects and programs, such as STEM career exploration and avant-garde courses.
"Nosotros have a generation of kids coming out of rough economic situations," Ferguson says. "And if they don't accept a potent relationship with a mentor or a teacher, they tin can kind of get lost. This can assist them make a better selection…or at least help them reverberate on whether this blazon of career appeals to them or why it does non."
If the study shows STEM-VRCE is effective, "it could be scaled upward to support career exploration and advising effectually multiple Stem career clusters and potentially change the way we offer career exploration programming," Ferguson adds.
Rowan Academy announces $3+ 1000000 in funding for research in Camden
In January 2019 Rowan announced the first grants of the Camden Wellness Inquiry Initiative, a $fifty million pledge by the University to fund inquiry in and/or impacting the Metropolis of Camden during the next x years.
Rowan awarded the initial grants, totaling $iii.06 meg, to kinesthesia working on 24 projects in 16 departments/divisions in Edelman CCCA, the Cooper Medical Schoolhouse of Rowan University (CMSRU), Schoolhouse of Osteopathic Medicine, Henry M. Rowan Higher of Applied science, Higher of Scientific discipline & Mathematics, College of Education and Cooper University Wellness Care. All proposals were externally peer reviewed.
The goal of the initiative, approved by Rowan's Lath of Trustees in December 2017, is to stimulate medical and bioscience inquiry at Rowan and CMSRU and with partners and to bring more than top enquiry and clinical faculty to the city to work on developing breakthrough medical cures and treatments.
"This major investment in research volition farther advance the emerging health sciences hub in Camden," said Rowan President Dr. Ali Houshmand. "As we attract top researchers and build more programs we also await to see the development of more first-ups—and more than jobs—in our region, further growing the Southward Jersey economic system."
Camden Health Inquiry Initiative Grant Recipients
The recipients of the showtime grants of the Camden Health Research Initiative are conducting enquiry in four categories: Biomedical Engineering and Science, Cancer, Engineering science Salubrious Communities, and Neuromedicine. The awardees from Edelman CCCA and their projects are:
Health Communication Campaign and Practice for Camden: Exploring the Variables Associated with Healthy Dietary Behaviors to Overcome Obesity Amidst Camden Residents Using Hiera rchical Linear Model
Investigators: Seoyeon Celine Hong (above) and Bo Kim (right), Department of Public Relations & Advertising; Sungwook Kim, Department of Statistics, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Fine art, Engineering and Medicine for Enhancing Orthopedic Resident Entrustability: Bringing Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology to Camden
Investigators: Amanda Almon, Department of Radio, Goggle box & Film; Tae Won Kim, Department of Orthopaedics, Cooper Medical School of Rowan Academy; Shreek Mandayam, Department of Electrical & Reckoner Technology, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering
Informed Patients Lead to Salubrious Communities: Patient Understandings of Prenatal Testing
Investigators: Amy Reed, Department of Writing Arts; Robin Perry, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Partnerships Saving Students Money
TAP grants salvage students millions
Jude Miller and Amanda Haruch could save Rowan students over $250,000. The Writing Arts faculty members along with Data Literacy Librarian Sam Kennedy make up one of 10 Rowan groups who received a Textbook Alternative Program grant (TAP). Miller, Harcuh and Kennedy are using library resources as well as online open education resources to replace the ii standard textbooks that are currently existence used in College Composition II classes, ane of Rowan'south core courses that all students are required to take. Educatee savings for 2020 are projected to exist $251,472.25.
The Rowan University Affordability Taskforce projects savings from all Rowan TAP grants to be more than $1 million in 2020.
Rowan partners with Jump Academy
For the fifth year in a row, Edelman CCCA participated in the Early Higher program at Camden, New Jersey's LEAP (Leadership, Education, And Partnership) Academy. Seniors at the charter school take a full load of college courses at Rowan's Camden campus and Rutgers-Camden. They earn both loftier schoolhouse and college credit and take the courses with college faculty.
Founded in 1997, LEAP Academy is Camden's starting time charter schoolhouse. It challenges students with a curriculum that emphasizes STEM pedagogy and boasts a 100 percent higher placement rate. Rowan's participation in LEAP'south Early College program is function of Rowan Academy President Ali Houshmand's commitment to increasing access to a four-year degree, peculiarly among underserved populations.
"It'southward important considering it furthers one of Rowan'due south stated goals—access to college didactics," said Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Lorraine Ricchezza.
Edelman CCCA and Writing Arts offers vi sections of Foundations for College Writing, which all students are required to take.
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Awards & Milestones
2020 Lindback Laurels
Public Relations & Advertising Chair Suzanne FitzGerald, Ph.D., April, Fellow PRSA, won the prestigious 2020 Lindback Distinguished Instruction Award last spring. From the Rowan Faculty Center:
"FitzGerald offers an unusual educator/practitioner perspective with a doctorate from Temple and the Boyfriend credential awarded to fewer than two percent of all PR practitioners. She has served every bit PRSSA advisor for 25 years. She has served equally Accreditation Chair for the Philadelphia PRSA chapter and on the board of PRSA's Educator'southward Academy. Her groundwork includes a decade in the data processing, health care, and agency arenas. FitzGerald has published several texts with McGraw-Hill and Kendall-Hunt as well in many scholarly journals."
This award is funded through a souvenir from the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation and honors one permanent kinesthesia fellow member with an outstanding record of teaching and a sustained record of commitment to student learning.
2019 Frances Due south. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovative Instruction Honour
Jennifer Kitson , who joined the Art department this year and likewise teaches in the Geography, Planning, & Sustainability department, won the 2019 Frances Southward. Johnson Junior Kinesthesia Innovative Teaching Award. Kitson worked with Michael Benson, Coordinator of the Digital Scholarship Heart, on the "Glassboro Memory Mapping Project".
The Frances S. Johnson Junior Kinesthesia Innovative Teaching Award was established by Edelman CCCA Dean Dr. Sanford Tweedie to recognize inferior faculty who challenge their students in unique, of import and interesting ways.
Wall of Fame
Each year, faculty and professional person staff are nominated by graduates from the previous year for their excellence in pedagogy and advising. Students are asked to write a letter describing how these faculty and staff members impacted their learning and overall development and/or assisted them beyond their expectations in bookish advising.
2020
Ronald Cake, Writing Arts, Teaching
Cristin Farney, Public Relations & Advertizement, Advising
Julie Haynes, Communication Studies, Teaching
John Moscatelli, Public Relations & Advertising, Teaching
Nancy Reighn-Garron, Journalism, Advising
Rachael Shapiro, Writing Arts, Advising
Skeffington Thomas, Art, Didactics
David Vaccaro, Art, Advising
2019
Kenneth Albone, Communication Studies, Advising
Joseph Basso, Public Relations & Advertising, Teaching
Marking Berkey-Gerard, Journalism, Educational activity and Advising
Suzanne FitzGerald, Public Relations & Advertisement, Teaching
Julie Haynes, Communication Studies, Teaching
Candace Kelley, Journalism, Teaching
Jonathan Mason, Radio, Television & Flick, Educational activity and Advising
Diana Nicolae, Radio, Television set & Motion-picture show, Advising
Alison Novak, Public Relations and Advertising, Teaching
Keir Politz, Radio Television & Moving-picture show, Instruction
Stephen Royek, Writing Arts, Advising
Retirees
Harriet Benavidez, Communication Studies
Mike Donovan, Radio, Television & Film
David Hackney, Public Relations & Advertising
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Across the classroom
Eye for Art & Social Appointment
Formerly known as the Westby Fine art Gallery, the Center for Art & Social Date is a new research-based initiative from the Rowan University Art Gallery.
The introductory projection, Estoy Por Aquí / I Am Here , was a visual representation of artist Susan Sterner'southward photographic exploration of the challenges faced by women working in the informal economy of cardinal Republic of el salvador.
Home of the Sister Chapel, the historic feminist art installation currently on display in Westby Hall, the Middle will serve as a venue for investigating social issues through arts-based methods, while drawing inspiration from the cooperative spirit of the women'southward art movement.
The Centre encourages similar ideas of collaboration and interdisciplinary research that explores diverse and timely social bug through multidisciplinary practices.
Conceived to welcome a variety of mediums, projects include photojournalism, moving-picture show and video, historical ephemera, info-graphic presentations, STEM/ STEAM installations, and/or public programming whether from faculty, students or exterior organizations and individuals.
"This is an opportunity for united states to work with other departments on campus and engage with communities beyond the campus," added Rowan Academy Art Gallery Director Mary Salvante.
Found of Innovative Media, Materials & Design 
In fall 2020, Edelman CCCA launched the Institute of Innovative Media, Materials & Design (IMMaD). The constitute supports collaborative, cantankerous-disciplinary innovations including sustainability, entrepreneurship and design. Coordinated by Art'southward Jenny Drumgoole, IMMaD provides funding for faculty research and creative activities; houses the Paul Grand and Sunitha Menon Rowan University Creative Inquiry Scholarships; and facilitates cross- and interdisciplinary programming from departments beyond the university. Look out for more information about IMMad and the Artistic Inquiry Scholars in Consequence #four.
Rowan Radio
Rowan Radio 89.seven WGLS-FM won 14 awards this year, including a prestigious Gracie Accolade.The station aired another season of Wilmington Blue Rocks Baseball, a modest league chapter of MLB's Kansas Urban center Royals. Directed by Derek Jones, Rowan Radio co-produces alive editions of the RU Football Coaches Show; carries roughly 100 Rowan athletics sports contests throughout the twelvemonth; and features over 120 annual live broadcasts of football game, basketball, softball, baseball and soccer games. WGLS produced 5 documentaries; broadcast live from several Rowan University events including Homecoming, Rowan 5K race and Rowan Gives Day; and partnered with Shoprite and the Nutrient Depository financial institution of S Jersey for their annual holiday food drive.
Rowan Writing Center
The Rowan Writing Center, nether the direction of Dr. Celeste Del Russo, Writing Arts, continues to increase its tutoring appointments and is developing its services to support students in a diversity of composing platforms and media, including Stem poster sessions, videos and public speaking projects. In fall 2019 the Rowan Writing Heart received the Access and Inclusion Honor from the Academic Success Center and Disability Resources Part and Director John Woodruff. The Eye was recognized for their proactive work in seeking support and collaboration to best serve students and tutors effectually neurodiversity and disability.
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