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Two SBU students chosen for prestigious research program Two St. Bonaventure University students have been selected to participate in a highly competitive summer research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Jacob Donius, a junior,
will attend a program in physics at the University of Idaho, while Troy
Mulholland, a sophomore, will participate in a physics program at the
University of Florida.
“We are delighted that Jacob and Troy have been chosen to participate in the summer 2009 programs,” said Neeson. “They join a list of students representing our Department of Physics that goes back to the inception of the program over 20 years ago. The faculty views our students’ participation in the program as a way of evaluating our best students but also as a means of evaluating the training we provide them.”
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Faculty
member publishes dissertation on technology integration in the classroom Claudette Thompson, D.Ed., an assistant professor in the School of Education at St. Bonaventure University, published her dissertation on technology integration and instruction.
The book, “Technology Instruction and Integration: Beyond Skills,” highlights how teachers may incorporate a well-known pedagogical strategy, peer tutoring with technology instruction and integration, to yield outcomes that go beyond technological skills.
While researching the book, Thompson found it interesting that the teachers in her research acknowledged the benefits of a collaborative approach to technology instruction and integration.
She found that the more experienced teachers in her sample group are confident about their technology abilities and generally perceive this competence as an asset to their instructional responsibilities. One teacher in the over-50 age category noted, “I always liked to give technology instruction individually then use peer tutors with specific students.”
Thompson believes it is important that teachers be aware of the varying technological competence of students in a class. This may range from a student’s inability to simply log on to a computer to students being able to build Web sites with several interactive features. A peer tutoring approach to technology instruction or integration can expand the range of learning outcomes to include the more discreet but equally important affective skills such as cooperation, tolerance and self-esteem.
“I hope readers, particularly teachers, will acknowledge that many students, being born in the technological age, may be more technologically perceptive than they are,” said Thompson. This difference, she added, is ideal for cooperative learning.
Thompson’s scholarly work includes multicultural literature as part of a balanced literacy program, urban teacher preparation, and teaching for critical thinking.
She holds a D.Ed. in education, curriculum and instruction from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in adult education and communications technology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor's degree in history with social Sciences from the University of the West Indies.
Her book is available
at www.amazon.com.
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Six to receive commissioning at U.S. Army ROTC ceremony The St. Bonaventure University U.S. Army ROTC program will host its 2009 Commissioning Ceremony on Saturday, May 16, for six new second lieutenants going into the U.S. Army.
It will be the first commissioning ceremony at St. Bonaventure under the leadership of Lt. Col. Thomas G. Leitch, professor of military science, who assumed command of the ROTC unit last June. Lt. Col. Leitch and Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., university president, will address the newly commissioned lieutenants and their families.
Immediately after the ceremony, the new second lieutenants will participate in the silver dollar salute, a tradition in which each hands a shiny silver dollar to the first soldier who salutes him or her. Those who will be commissioned include:
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Four students inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon Four St. Bonaventure University sophomores were recently inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Honorary Mathematics Society.
Courtney Bosse, from Carmel, Ind., John Hasper, a physics major from Great Valley, N.Y., Nicole Markert, a mathematics major from Auburn, Ohio, and Troy Mulholland, a physics major from Dewittville, N.Y., make up this year’s class of inductees.
All four students have excelled not only in mathematics, but in their own specific fields of study as well.
The National Honorary Mathematics Society, Pi Mu Epsilon, was established at Syracuse University in 1914. Since its founding the honorary has expanded to 300 chapters in North America. St. Bonaventure belongs to the New York Omega chapter.
The goal of the society is to encourage intellectual and scholarly activity among mathematics students.
To be inducted one
must be an undergraduate with two years of math courses, including calculus,
with a B average, and a ranking in the top one-third of the class. One
can also be inducted if he is a sophomore math major with at least three
semesters of math courses, including calculus, with an A in every course,
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Dr. John Mulryan, Board of Trustees Professor of English, attended and participated in the Northeast Milton Seminar, which met at Dartmouth College in April. He has also received a $1,000 grant to pursue research on Milton and Dante at the University of Illinois.
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