Bulletin: December 2018

Student Accomplishments

Congratulations to graduate student Mary Beth Capka. She recently received the annual BGE Bright Ideas Teacher’s Grant. The award is given to teachers to support an innovative STEM or technology project.

Capka, a second grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School in Catonsville, Baltimore County, will use the funding to purchase a weather station for the school’s outdoor classroom. This will give young students the opportunity practice monitoring the weather and provide daily weather reports.

At the request of Deborah Phelps, Executive Director to the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools and former NDMU Board of Trustee, Capka will present her project at the BCPS State of the Schools in Spring 2019.

Faculty Accomplishments

Congratulations to Dr. Christa De Kleine as the final version of her article An Analysis of Grammatical Patterns in Generation 1.5, L1 and L2 Students’ Writings: A Replication Study has now been published in the “Journal of Second Language Writing,” and is also available online.

In addition, Dr. De Kleine, in collaboration with Dr. Rachele Lawton, had a chapter titled “Linguistically Diverse Students” recently published in the Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research, edited by Rona F. Flippo & Thomas W. Bean (Routledge).

The Maryland TESOL Conference was recently held at NDMU and faculty members Dr. Christa De Kleine and Patty Silver represented the University, as well as numerous current and former students. Dr. De Kleine presented Generation 1.5 Students at the College Level: The Role of Age of Arrival; Patty presented Undocumented: a Brief History of Immigration Law. Former NDMU professor Debra Suarez was also in attendance and received the Lifetime Achievement Award.  

Andrew Moore has been appointed as Vice-President to MCGATE (Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education).

Is a "Critical Mass" of Teacher Candidates Needed in a Professional Development School to Achieve a Quality Student Teaching Experience? is an article written by Stephanie L. Savick, Gary Thrift and Mark Fenster which is being published in the fall 2018 issue of School-University Partnerships.

Molly Dunn recently presented "Can You Teach Compassion?: Results from a Teacher Mindfulness Study" at the IOSSBR (International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research) annual conference in Boca Raton, FL.

Dr. Angelo Letizia’s pending presentation: Visualizing Justice: Graphic Novels and Citizenship Education was accepted for the 2019 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech in February. In this presentation, he will examine ways graphic novels can be used to promote the skills and dispositions of the social studies. In addition, he will also examine ways faculty can use the graphic novel format in their own research.

At this year’s National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) meeting, Kelly Bull enjoyed presenting alongside NDMU colleagues:

• Giving Voice to Women in the Past to Empower Women in the Future
• Honoring the Refugee and Immigrant Experience: Preparing Students and Teachers to Speak Out for Equity and Justice with Joan Sattler
• Teaching for Equity and Justice with Young Adult Literature with doctoral student, Travis Reyes
• Speaking Out for Equity and Justice in English Education with Dawn Martin

NDMU’s STEM Camp received honors from its partnership with JHU Engineering. You can read the entire article online.

Dr. Katherine Beauchat will be presenting "The Impact of Explicit Instruction on Head Start Students' Vocabulary Knowledge" at the Massachusetts Reading Association conference to be held in Boston in April 2019.

Dr. Juliann Dupuis will be presenting at AERA with a colleague from Westat. The title of their presentation is,  Examining the Relations Between Middle School Teacher Preparation, Professional Development, and Student Performance.

In addition, Dr. Dupuis along with Ashley Demski (Baltimore City School teacher and graduate of the NDMU STEM program) had their project accepted through “100K in 10.”  Their team will be working on ways to support teachers in the Mid-Atlantic region  by developing a strategy to foster a thriving community of local teachers and STEM industry—better enabling access to resources. Their partners for this project are: Digital Harbor Foundation, Johns Hopkins School of Engineering, and the Teaching Channel.

Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Sabita Persaud presented at the 2018 Sigma Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, IN. The presentation titled Project PLAN: Preparing Leaders to Advance Nursing, showcased School of Nursing activities supported by a 2018 Nurse Support Program II Grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

Drs. Marleen Thornton and Sabita Persaud recently published “Preparing Today’s Nurses: Social Determinants of Health and Nursing Education” in The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.

Student Accomplishments

Senior nursing student, Emma Durham of Millville, NJ was the recipient of the Daily Record 2018 Leading Woman scholarship award. The Daily Record has partnered with Keswick Multi-Care Center to create a Leading Woman scholarship to honor a student who is majoring in/pursuing a degree in public health, nursing, geriatrics or a health-related major/degree. On behalf of the University, the School of Nursing nominated Emma for demonstrating academic success as a student, consistently participating in University and School of Nursing activities and exhibiting a commitment to inspiring change in nursing, specifically gerontological nursing.

You can read more about Emma in The Daily Record's program. The Leading Women of Maryland’s Future awards were created in 2010 to celebrate successful women who are 40 years of age or younger. The Leading Woman scholarship in partnership with Keswick, was established two years ago.

Three students in the Master of Science in Nursing Program were supported by the School of Nursing to present their work as posters at the 2018 Sigma Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, IN.  

• Michelle Atherton presented Pursuing Pathway to Excellence and Approaches to Nursing Education
• Natasha Maith presented Competence in Caring for Patients with Opioid Addiction: A Phenomenological Approach
• Carrie Ann Roberts presented compassion Fatigue in the Presence of Employee Engagement

On November 18^th, 2018, the Mu Eta Chapter of Sigma inducted 36 new members. Sigma is the international honor society of nursing and the Mu Eta Chapter is located here at NDMU.  Inductees included 18 BSN students, 16 MSN students and 1 Nurse Leader.

School Award

Baltimore County Department of Aging presented the Legacy Partner Award to the School of Pharmacy for its sustained commitment and service to geriatric clients in Baltimore County.  The award was presented at its annual luncheon on May 17, 2018.

Faculty Publications

Dr. Jennifer Bailey, Assistant Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciencespublished  “New Initiatives for HIV Taking Off This Year” 

Faculty awards 

Dr. Lindsey Crist, Assistant Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences, was selected as the 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year after nomination by students and peer review.  She will be honored at the Teacher of the Year luncheon along with winners from all schools of pharmacy in the U.S. at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in July 2018.

Dr. Nicole Culhane, Assistant Dean for Experiential Education & Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences won the Excellence in Experiential Education Award from the Experiential Education Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in July 2018.

Dr. Ashley Moody, Assistant Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences was presented with the  American Pharmacist Association Immunization Certificate of Recognition by the Immunizing Pharmacists SIG at its annual conference in March 2018.

Dr. Ray Weber, Associate Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences was presented with the Mentor of the Year Award by the Class of 2018 at the graduation banquet on May 18, 2018.

Faculty Activities

Dr. Anne Lin, Dean & Professor of Clinical & Administrative Sciences was installed as a Trustee for the  2018-2019 Board of Directors of the Maryland Pharmacists Association on July 1, 2018. This is Dr. Lin’s second year of service on the Board.

Student Accomplishments

The following Class 2018 students matched to PGY-1 residencies:

Cesar Bejaraono-Garica ’18 – Meritus Medical Center – Hagerstown, MD

Alyssia Dyett ’18 – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/Walgreens (community pharmacy residency), Chapel Hill, NC

Nahed Elias ‘18 – Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (community pharmacy residency)– Richmond, VA

Kyle Gundlach ’18 – Desert Regional Medical Center – Palm Springs, CA

Quynh-Nhu Ha ’18 – Sinai Hospital – Baltimore, MD

Shannon Haar ’18 – Virtua Health – Mt. Holly, NJ

Miaka Huynh ’18 – Indian Health Service Residency, Public Health Service

David Lewis ’18 – Shady Grove Medical Center -Adventist Health Care – Rockville, MD

Mayrim Millan- Barea ’18 – Johns Hopkins Hospital – Baltimore, MD (combined PGY1/PGY-2  & MS in Health System Administration)

Binh Nguyen ’18 – Mercy Medical Center – Mason City, IA

Raza Zeinab ’18 – Howard County General Hospital – Columbia, MD

Tiffany Sherrod Harris ’18 – Wake Forest Baptist Health (community pharmacy residency) – Winston-Salem, NC

The following Class 2017 Alumni matched to the following PGY-2 residencies after completing a PGY-1 residency:

Vala Behbahani ’17 – Mount Sinai Hospital - New York, NY (Solid Organ Transplant)

Rachel Dewberry ’17 – MedStar Health – Columbia,  MD (Health System Pharmacy Administration)

Shayne Wharton ’17 -  Pittsburgh Veterans Administration Medical Center – Pittsburgh, PA (psychiatry)