The Mathematics, Science, and Technology Department has welcomed Dr. Arturo Hale as a new adjunct science faculty member this year. He is currently teaching Concepts of Physics I & II. He also teaches conceptual physics at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. Dr. Hale was born and raised in Mexico City. He came to [...]
Dr. Francis Oh, DDS, is a current Science Education student in the Ph.D. in Science Education program at Teachers College. He was born in South Korea, and came to United States when he was a freshman in high school. He is a product of the K-12 system of both South Korea and United States. He [...]
Benjamin Pass, is a current Science Education student in the Science and Dental Medicine Education M.A. program. Benjamin was born in Ohio; he has lived in several places, mostly Michigan, but has also lived in Florida and Colorado. He attended college in Colorado at the United States Air Force Academy and majored in biochemistry. Benjamin [...]
The Science and Dental Medicine Master of Arts program is the newest addition to the Science Education program at Teachers College. The 32-point M.A. degree in Science and Dental Education serves students whose professional interests are centered in the enhancement of teaching and learning in the fields of oral and dental surgery; based on scientific [...]
Dr. Ann Rivet, an Associate Professor of Science Education at Teachers College, grew up in New Hampshire and attended Brown University to study physics. Although, overall a positive experience, she shares, “I remember very distinctly sitting in my quantum mechanics class, watching the back of my professor’s head as he was writing long Greek symbols [...]
Sonam Tobgye grew up in two very distinct places. During the school year he would live in Kanglung, an institutional town in the eastern Bhutan; however, his summer and winter holidays were spent at his family’s village, Phosorong, which is under the Mongar district in eastern Bhutan. Growing up in these two environments taught him [...]
Dr. Renhong Wang, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Science Education program, grew up in China and lived there until 1988. As a child in China he worked very hard as a student and really enjoyed school. Dr. Wang wanted to learn everything and even tried to finish the next semester’s coursework during the summer [...]
Dr. Jenny Ingber, a recent graduate of the Science Education program, grew up outside of Chicago in a suburb called Arlington Heights. Her parents helped fuel her love of science by taking the family to Chicago’s many museums and aquariums. During elementary and secondary school, Jenny was recognized for her excellence in science and was [...]
Dr. Jessica Riccio is proud and excited to share that two groups of students from the 2010 Science Preservice Cohort will be presenting action research projects that they created in MSTC 4761 at the 2011 NSTA National Conference in San Francisco, CA. The first group is titled, The Importance of Effective Communication Between Teachers and [...]
Dr. Jessica Riccio has always had an inquisitive disposition. When she was six years old she received a microscope for Christmas and experimented with anything and everything to create microscope slides. With a mother and grandmother both being nurses, respect for the sciences was ingrained in her. Similar to many other children, she enjoyed playing [...]