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Undergraduate instructors join the program each year. Betsy Mendelsohn Betsy Mendelsohn is a historian of environment and technology who taught STS at the University of Virginia for 3 years before becoming an instructor in both of the STS programs in 2004. She succeeded Prof. James Duncan as Director of the STS programs in June, 2007. Dr. Mendelsohn is an active participant in the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History. On campus, she has a close association with the Department of History, serving on graduate student thesis committees, participating in the caucus of historians of technology, science and environment, and sometimes teaching as an adjunct lecturer. She has published essays on the historical importance of technology to environmental quality and on the history of American environmental law. She earned a B.A. in history from Yale University (1983) and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago (1999). Dr. Mendelsohn's research focuses on the incorporation of science into the resolution of legal conflicts about sharing resources such as water, air, public roads, and ecological health.
Claire Robbins moved to Maryland in 2007 to pursue her Ph.D. in the College Student Personnel Administration program, where she is now a third-year doctoral student. Her research interests include women, gender, and feminism in higher education; academic major choice; student development theory; and living-learning programs. At Maryland, Claire has co-taught EDCP 217 (Introduction to Leadership) and has served as a facilitator for the Ten Woman Plan, a sexual assault prevention program in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. She also joined a phenomenal group of engineering students on a service-learning spring break trip through the Breakaway program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering. Before coming to Maryland, Claire was a program coordinator in Student Affairs at Duke University, first in the Dean of Students Office and then in the Women's Center. Claire earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Education and Sociology/Anthropology from Swarthmore College. Mr. William Evans William C. Evans has taught choral music and been Music Department Chair at Sherwood High School in Montgomery County, Maryland since 1979. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Clarion University in Pennsylvania and a Master of Music in Voice from The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Bill directs three choral groups at Sherwood: Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Freshman Chorus. He teaches the popular Electronic Music and Recording Studio Techniques class. Bill has been Musical Director, Technical Supervisor and Creative Writer for Sherwood High School's original musical production "Rock 'n' Roll Revival," now in its 37th year. Bill has served as a choral adjudicator for the Annapolis Music Festival for fourteen years, as well as festivals in Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Bill is a Acting Director of the Music Technology Lab at the University of Maryland - College Park, where he teaches Music Technology. During spring 2003 he was a part-time faculty member and guest conductor of the Towson University Vocal Jazz Ensemble. He has also been a guest lecturer for the Music Department at the Catholic University of America. Mr. Evans has received numerous honors and awards over the years, including the University of Maryland Outstanding Teachers Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence (2004), Sherwood PTSA Educator of the Year (2006) and (2000), Maryland State Computer Educator of the Year from the Maryland Instructional Computer Coordinators Association (1991), Outstanding Contribution to the Community (1989) and the Outstanding Contribution to Youth Award (1987) from the Greater Olney Civic Association. Ms. Sabrina Liao For years, Sabrina Liao has been working as a creative director in a new media agency in Asia. Her clients include Coca-Cola Asia, Estee Lauder, HSBC and more. Her work and projects have won numerous awards including the prestigious "Click Award" in Asia between 2000-2002. Sabrina holds a Master of Arts in Multimedia and Music from New York University (NY, USA) and a Bachelor of Education from University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). She has also chaired at many international conferences such as CHI 2000-2003 (Computer Human Interaction), IDC2004 (International Design and Children) and CC2007 (Creativity & Cognition). She has published 5 computer books in Chinese, teaching people to use multimedia tools such as Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver in a creative and innovative way. J. Rosser Matthews Rosser Matthews graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1985 as a mathematics and philosophy double major. Subsequently, he earned a Master's and Ph.D. degree from Duke University where his research focus was on the history of science and medicine. He has taught a wide variety of courses in the history of science, history of medicine, STS, and general history survey courses at a number of institutions - including North Carolina State University, Duke University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the College of William and Mary, Christopher Newport University, and the STS program at Virginia Tech. This semester, in addition to being an instructor in the STS program at the University of Maryland, he is also an instructor in the George Washington University History Department. His research focuses on the history of statistical reasoning as a way to illustrate the role of chance, uncertainty, and risk in both the scientific and public policy arenas. One product of this research was a book on the historical emergence of the clinical trial in contemporary medicine, which was published in 1995 by Princeton University Press under the title Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty. Since completing that project, Matthews has acquired additional expertise in the areas of contemporary public policy and public health analysis. He is particularly interested in using an "STS perspective" to analyze the reception of epidemiological studies in the legal and policy arenas. This research interest has resulted in a publication on the role of medical practice guidelines in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law and a 13-month appointment at the National Institutes of Health where he was a DeWitt Stetten Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology in 2001-2002. At present, Matthews is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University where he is collaborating with Alan I. Faden, a member of the medical school faculty, on a book that will use history as a way to illustrate the problems confronting contemporary American medicine. |
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