Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University
B.S. in Biology from Elmhurst College
Undergraduate students are underlined
Schirmer AE, Kumar V, Schook A, Song EJ, Marshall MS and Takahashi JS (2023). Cry1 expression during postnatal development is critical for the establishment of normal circadian period. Front. Neurosci. 17:1166137. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1166137
Epiney, D., Salameh, C., Cassidy, D., Zhou, L., Kruithof, J., Milutinović, R., Andreani, T., Schirmer, A.E., and Bolterstein, E. (2021). Characterization of Stress Responses in a Drosophila Model of Werner Syndrome. Biomolecules, 11(12)
Schirmer, A. E., Gallemore, C., Liu, T., Magle, S., DiNello, E., Ahmed, H., & Gilday, T. (2019). Mapping behaviorally relevant light pollution levels to improve urban habitat planning. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-13.
Smarr, B. L. and Schirmer, A. E. (2018). 3.4 million real-world learning management system logins reveal the majority of students experience social jet lag correlated with decreased performance. Scientific Reports 8, 4793.
Schirmer, A. E., Prete, F. R., Mantes, E. S., Urdiales, A. F., Bogue, W. (2014) Circadian Rhythms Affect the Electroretinogram, Compound Eye Color, Striking Behavior, and Locomotion of the Praying Mantis, Hierodula patellifera (Serville). The Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 3853-3861.
Room BBH 352E
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.A. University of Chicago
Lech Walesa Hall 2033
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D. with distinction in English from the University of Louisiana (1999)
M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (1994)
B.A. with honors in English from Southern Illinois University (1992)
Books
Schroeder, Christopher. 2011. Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• recipient of 2012 CCCC Research Impact Award
Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. 2002. ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
• reprinted by Heinemann in 2004
• college best-seller for Heinemann in 2002
Schroeder, Christopher. 2001. ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• reviewed in College English
• nominated for the 2002 David H. Russell Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English
Articles, Chapters, and Essays
Schroeder, Christopher. 2016. “Continuity and Community in a Cosmopolitan World: Code Switching and Its Effects on Community Identity.” In Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines Across America, ed. Barbara Couture and Patricia Wojahn, 43-59. Boulder, Colo.: Utah State University Press.
---. 2010. “Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise.” In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications, ed. Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk, 95-113. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, Inc.
---. 2009. “English Teachers We Have Known.” In Transforming English Studies: New Voices from an Emerging Genre, ed. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, 212-228. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press.
---. 2007. “Notes Toward a Dynamic Theory of Literacy.” In Locations of Composition, ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, 267-287. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2006. “The Limits of Institutionalized Literacies: Minority Bilinguals at One U.S. University.” Community Literacy Journal 1: 67-82.
---. 2005. “Natural Diversity: A Response to David Quammen.” In Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature, ed. Sidney Dobrin and Chris Keller, 99-107. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2004a. Review of Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James Slevin. Composition Studies 32: 143-146.
---. 2004b. “The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies.” In Ethnography Unbound: From Shock Theory to Critical Praxis, ed. Stephen Brown and Sidney Dobrin. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2002. “From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending).” In ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, 178-190. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
---. 2002. “Rereading the Literacy Crisis in Colleges and Universities in the United States.” In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick J. Anczak, Cinda Goggins, and Geoffery D. Klinger, 187-192. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
---. 2001. “Academic Literacies, Legitimacy Crises, and Electronic Cultures.” The Journal of Literacy and Technology
---. 1999. “Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature (and Other) Classrooms.” In Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum, ed. Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, 297-311. New York: Garland Press.
---. 1998. “Writing, Reading, and Resistant Meanings: Teaching Students to Fish.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 17: 61-72. (all footnotes were omitted without permission)
---. 1997. “Knowledge and Power, Logic and Rhetoric, and Other Reflections in the Toulminian Mirror: A Critical Consideration of Toulmin’s Contributions to Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17: 95-107.
Room LWH 2023
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:05-1:35 p.m./ 3:00-4:00 p.m. (in office)
Other times by appointment via Google Meet
Email at c-schroeder2@neiu.edu
Ph. D. in Psychology
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
MA from Northeastern Illinois University
LWH 2046
5500 North St. Louis Ave.
Chicago , IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Sociology, 1988, Northwestern University
M.Ph., Community College Education, 1975, Roosevelt University
M.A., Sociology, 1975, Roosevelt University
B.A., Sociology, 1971, Roosevelt University
Schwartz, Mary Ann and Scott, BarBara M. 2007. Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change. 5th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Scott, BarBara M. and Schwartz, M.A. 2006. Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World. 2nd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Lemelle, Anthony, Jr., and Scott, BarBara M. 2006. "African American HIV/AIDS and Social Institutions: New Realities Calling for New Policies." In Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, and Anthony Lemelle (Eds.), Free At Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. pp. 103-126.
Scott, BarBara, Misra, Joya, & Segal, Marcia. 2003. Race, Gender, and Class in Sociology:Toward an Inclusive Curriculum. (5th ed.). Washington, DC: The American Sociological Association Press.
Annual Workshop. 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. "Teaching Sociology Through Literature and Film." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meetings.
Organizer/Presider. 2005. "Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Media." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Staged Reading and Discussion (with Martha Thompson). 2005. "Working Class Women Sleuths Clean Up!!-Blanche White Meets Lily Bard: Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Women's Dectective Fiction." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Symposium Participant. 2003. "HIV/AIDS Intervention for Women with Multiple Sexual Partners Living in Impoverished Housing." University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, Hefter Center.
Recent Professional Service and Community Involvement
President (2005-2006), Association of Black Sociologists
Co-Chair (Current), NEIU Presidential Task Force on the Millennium Student
Volunteer Faculty, St. Leonard's Alternative High School for Ex-Offenders
Member, Links, Inc. Services to African American Youth Projects
Mentor, Northeastern Illinois University, Minority Mentor Program
Mentor, Sister-to-Sister Mentor Advisory Group
Chair, Advisory Committee on Student Retention, Northeastern Illinois University
Board Member: Ora Higgins Youth Foundation
Member, American Sociological Association; Midwest Sociological Society; and Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society (MSWS)
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.M. Harp Performance, Boston University
B.M. Music Performance, Eastern Michigan University
Faye Seeman is established as one of the most versatile harpists in the Midwest. She is principal harpist of the Chicago Sinfonietta Orchestra, which has featured one of her compositions “Fayed to Blue” with harp, steel pan and orchestra. She is on the music faculty at Wheaton College, Northern Illinois University, and Northeastern Illinois University. Faye has played with many area ensembles, such as Fulcrum Point, the Elgin Symphony, the Lake Forest Symphony, and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, to name a few. An avid explorer of instrumental combinations off the beaten path, Faye began a collaboration with steel pan virtuoso Liam Teague, forming the cutting-edge “Pangelic” Duo. The duo has been on stage at the Birch Creek Music Festival in Door County, Wisc., the Harper College recital series, Northern Illinois University and frequently perform recitals throughout the Midwest. Their innovative original compositions and individual musical skills put them on top of the charts as “vibrant, exciting, and creative”. Since 1984, her “Kithara” flute, cello and harp trio has been featured on WTTW’s “30 Good Minutes” Sunday Evening television program, WFMT radios’ “Dame Myra Hess” noontime broadcast, and has presented countless recitals in the Chicago area. Noted British composer Sir Jonathan Wilcocks composed “Sweet Music’s Power” for the trio, which premiered at the Green Lake Music Festival in Green Lake, Wisc. The “Kithara” trio has two recordings to their credit, and has published many arrangements through the Lyon and Healy West label. During the summer, Faye is on the faculty of the Birch Creek Music Festival in Door County, Wisc., and the Midwest Harp Festival held in Wheaton, Ill.
Ph.D., Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2021)
M.A., Communication, Media and Theatre, Northeastern Illinois University (2017)
B.A., Communication, Media and Theatre, Northeastern Illinois University (2015)
Sepúlveda, S. (2023).“I wouldn’t fall for that!” Exploring social influence and group decision making. Communication Teacher, 37(4), 278-282. https://doi.org/10.
Sepúlveda, S., & Plec, E. (2021). Of rats and women: A cross-species read of space and place. In A. E. George (Ed.) Feminism and Gender in Critical Animal Studies. Lexington Publishers.
Riforgiate, S. E., & Sepúlveda, S. (2021). Managing and being managed by emotions. In F. Cooren & P. Stücheli-Herlach (Eds.) Handbook of Management Communication. De Gruyer Mouton
Sepúlveda, S. (2019). Review of abstinence cinema: Virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film. [Review of the book Abstinence cinema, by C. R. Kelly]. Women & Language, 42(1), 125-128.
Room FA 231
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Also available for virtual appointments.
MFA - Maryland Institute College of Art
BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Solo Shows
Spring Solos at Arlington Arts Center - Arlington, VA
Group Shows
Discomfort Zones at Carroll University - Wauneka, WI
State of Our Shared Land at St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Out/Side & In/Between at School 33 - Baltimore, MD
Echo Chamber - Gallery CA - Baltimore, MD
FA 105B
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Duncan, K. L., Sias, P. M., & Shin, Y. (2021). “But That’s Not My Job”: Employee Resistance to Extra-Role Tasks. Communication Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/
Sias, P.M., & Shin, Y. (2020). Workplace Relationships. in A. Nicotera (Ed.) Organizational communication: A comprehensive introduction to the field (pp. 187-206). Routledge Press.
Sias, P.M., & Shin, Y. (2020). Organizational Socialization. in A. Nicotera (Ed.) Organizational communication: A comprehensive introduction to the field (pp. 149-167). Routledge Press.
Room FA 236
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Wednesday: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Also available by appointment.
Ph.D. Art History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, , Champaign and Urbana, IL
Master of Arts, Art History and Museum Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign and Urbana, IL
Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Bachelor of Science, Studio Art, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
“Emil Nolde’s Biblical Paintings of 1909,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, no. 2, 2010, pp. 255-272.
“Literary Texts and Formal Strategies in Emil Nolde’s Religious Paintings,” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska: the University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2007.
“Emil Nolde’s Religious Paintings of 1909 and the Beginnings of Modernism in Germany,” Proceeding for the School of Visual Arts Twentieth Annual National Conference: Reassessing the Modern, Modernity and Modernism, New York: School of Visual Arts, 2007.
“Anti-clerics and Commemoration at Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago,” Proceedings of the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey: The WAPACC Organization, 2006.
“Vita Activa/Vita Contemplativa: Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt,” The Burlington Magazine, February, 2005, pp. 100-107.
“Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt.” Proceeding for the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference: Art and Story, New York: School of Visual Arts, 2005.
“John Chandler Bancroft and Art in Newport and New England in the 1860s,” Newport History: The Journal of the Newport Historical Society, vol. 71, part 2, no. 247 (2002), pp. 36-48.
“The Drawings of William Cordova and Gean Moreno.” Catalogue essay for the exhibition “It Don’t Come Easy,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, July, 2001.
“Whistler and John Chandler Bancroft,” The Burlington Magazine, October, 1994, pp. 675-682.
American Master Prints from the Collection of Marian and Belverd E. Needles, Jr. Exhibition catalogue and essay, DePaul University Art Gallery, May, 1991.
“American Master Prints from the Needles Collection,” The Journal of the Print World, Summer, 1991, pp. 10-11.
“Photographs by Imogen Cunningham.” Exhibition catalogue essay, The Milwaukee Art Museum, March, 1981.
American Master Prints from Whistler to Benton from the Collection of Marian and Belverd E. Needles Jr., DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
FA 105A
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
T: 8:45-9:15 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon; 3-4 p.m.
R: 8:45-9:15 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon
and by appointment
Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Sisters, Case Edgerton Studios, St. Paul, MN
Roots: New Growth, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
Big Little Art Show, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
Fall Feels, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago IL Water, James May Gallery, Algoma WI
Supplies for Viable Living, Catich Gallery, Saint Abrose University, Davenport IA
Conspire: Collaboration, Cooperation, Collection, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Exquisite Corpse: Head to Toe and End to End, Francis Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, WI
Resident in Printmaking (with The Moving Crew), Anchor Graphic and the Center for the Book at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Panel Participant (with The Moving Crew), CAA/SGCI Print Installation Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Room FA 105B
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D. University of Ottawa
B.A. Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada
Bavarian, N., Lewis, K. M., Holloway, S., Wong, L., Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Flay, B. R., & Siebert, C. (2022) Mechanisms of influence on youth substance use for a social-emotional and character development program: A theory-based approach. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(12), 1854-1863. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2022.2120359
Lewis, K. M., Holloway, S. D., Bavarian, N., Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Flay, B., & Siebert, C. (2021). Effects of Positive Action in elementary school on student behavioral and social-emotional outcomes. The Elementary School Journal, 121(4). https://doi.org/10.1086/714065
Sánchez, B., Pryce, J., Silverthorn, N., Deane, K. L., & DuBois, D. L. (2019). Do mentor support for ethnic-racial identity and mentee cultural mistrust matter for girls of color? A preliminary investigation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 25(4), 505-514. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000213
Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Lewis, K. M., Reed, A., Bavarian, N., Day, J., Ji, P., Acock, A. C., Vuchinich, S., & Flay, B. R. (2017). Effects of a school-based social-emotional and character development program on self-esteem levels and processes: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. SAGE Open, 7(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017713238
Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., & Crombie, G. (2005). Self-perceptions of ability and achievement across the high school transition: Investigation of a state-trait model. The Journal of Experimental Education, 73(3), 191-218. https://doi.org/10.3200/JEXE.73.3.191-218
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Monday: 10:15-11:15 a.m. at Main Campus
Tuesday and Friday: 9:30-11:00 a.m. via Zoom.
Will be updated soon
BBH-212G
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Environmental Biology, University of Louisville
B.S., Biology, University of Notre Dame
Slate, J. E., Adler, R. F., Hibdon Jr., J. E., Mayle, S. T., Kim, H., and Srinivas, S. 2019. A multidisciplinary approach to incorporating computational thinking in STEM courses for preservice teachers. In (R. M. Reardon & J. Leonard, eds) Integrating Digital Technology in Education, Information Age Publishing Inc.: Charlotte, N.C.
SCIENTIFIC MODELING IN EDUCATION:
Introductory biology students seldom have the opportunity to build or modify scientific models, despite their importance in bioscience research. Thus, I am developing educational activities for beginning students who are new to modeling. With support from a STEM+C grant from the National Science Foundation, I worked with a group of biology, computer science, math, and education students to create a simulation that applies the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, commonly utilized by public health officials to predict the spread of disease, to simulate a mosquito-borne viral outbreak. In addition to using the simulation to test disease-causing scenarios, students can expand upon the model by writing computer code. It is thus an excellent exercise to show beginning biology students how computer modeling and simulation is used to examine biological systems.
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF WATER QUALITY:
As sessile aquatic invertebrates, native freshwater mussels have great potential for use as biological indicators. Because they live on the river bottom and are filter feeders, they are affected by both habitat degradation and water quality. In addition, both mussels and sponges leave remains in the sediment that provide a historical record. With collaborators Laura Sanders and Jean Hemzacek in the Department of Earth Science, our students recently surveyed the mussel community in the Chicago River. According to a biological index developed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, our data indicate a water quality value of moderate, which is promising for a river in a major metropolitan area such as Chicago. Our study was supported by a pilot grant from the United States Department of Agriculture.
FRESHWATER SPONGE TAXONOMY:
Although common in aquatic habitats in the Midwest, freshwater sponges are understudied due to lack of knowledge of the microscopic features that allow species to be differentiated. Thus, students and I are collecting sponges from local rivers, lakes, and wetlands and quantifying the variation in morphological characteristics. In addition, we are identifying to species the freshwater sponges held in the Field Museum of Natural History’s collection. Currently, the Field Museum’s freshwater sponge collection is difficult for the research community to access, because the majority of their specimens have not been identified to species. My students are making microscope slides of Field Museum specimens and measuring microscopic features useful in the taxonomic identification of species.
FLORA AND FAUNA OF SPHAGNUM BOGS:
The majority of wetland habitat in the Midwest has been drained for agriculture and development. Of the wetlands that remain, quaking bogs are among the most unique and beautiful. Plants- even tamarack trees- grow on floating mats of Sphagnum moss, which rise and fall with water levels. Microscopic organisms, about which little is known, also live on the floating moss. These small flora and fauna include sponges, a primitive animal that is well studied in oceans but not in freshwater habitats. Species new to science, including single-celled protists such as algae and amoebae, have also been recently discovered living on Sphagnum. Students and I characterized the microscopic flora and fauna living on Sphagnum moss. In addition to collecting modern samples of Sphagnum from bogs in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, we examined Sphagnum samples collected for over one hundred years that are held in the Field Museum of Natural History’s collection.
Room BBH 358F
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.A., Northeastern Illinois University, Vocal Pedagogy
B.A., University of Vermont
Lydia Snow is an instructor in Vocal Music Education and general education classes such as Contemporary Music Education K-6, The Musical Experience, Music Concepts and World Music at Northeastern Illinois University.
In the summer of 2012, she taught at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development as an instructor in the early childhood program. For several summers, she was the music instructor at the Evanston Arts Camp through the city of Evanston. She has taught classroom general music for over 20 years in private and public schools in the Chicago area. In the summers of 2004 and 2005, she was the Movement and Recorder Instructor for Level 1 Orff Certification at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
FA 136
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
TR: 11 a.m.-noon
M.A., Geography, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Monday: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. via Zoom or by appointment.
Please email me to obtain the Zoom link.
M.A., The University of Chicago
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
LWH 2048
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago , IL 60625
United States
D.M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Clarinet performance
M. M., University of Akron, Performance
B. M., DePaul University
Dr. Rose Sperrazza maintains an active schedule as a performer and teacher. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern Illinois where she regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician. Prior to coming to NEIU, Sperrazza taught for over a decade at Harper College and has been on the faculties of University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Akron University as a teaching assistant.
Her local performing credits include work with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Light Opera Works, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, New Philharmonic Orchestra, CUBE ensemble, and the Madison Symphony Orchestra. She is also on the Vandoren Artist Roster.
In 2007, Dr. Sperrazza founded the Chicago Clarinet Ensemble as an in-residence professional and community ensemble at NEIU. Together with notable guest artists including Larry Combs, John Yeh, Anthony McGill, Michael Lowenstern, Stanley Drucker, Elsa Ludwig-Verdehr, Charlene Zimmerman, Eric Mandat, and Jorge Montilla, Sperrazza has provided mentoring opportunities, workshops, educational competitions, newly-commissioned repertoire, and symposiums for aspiring clarinetists throughout the United States.
Sperrazza spent eleven years as a student of William R. Gasbarro, and later, after moving from her hometown of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, studied with Larry Combs, David Bell, and Dr. Linda Bartley.
Fine Arts, 122
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
TBA
Bernard Brommel Hall 204-F
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D. (physics), State University of New York at Albany, 1995
M.S. (physics), Pune University, (India), 1987
B.Sc. (physics), Miranda House, University of Delhi (India) 1985
- Assessing Computational Thinking across a Pre-service STEM Curriculum, R. F. Adler, J. Hibdon, H. Kim, S. Mayle, B. Pines, and S. Srinivas, Education and Information Technologies, 28, 8051 (2023)
- A Multidisciplinary Approach to Incorporating Computational Thinking in STEM Courses for Preservice Teachers, J. Slate, R. Adler, J. Hibdon, S. Mayle, H. Kim, and S. Srinivas, Book Chapter, Integrating Digital Technology in Education, Ed. R. M. Reardon and J. Leonard, Information Age Publishing (Charlotte, NC, 2019)
- Retention and Student Success in STEM through a Mentoring Scholarship Program at an Urban HSI, S. Srinivas, P. H. Acioli, K Voglesonger, N. Nicholson, J. Hibdon, N. Wrinkle, and D. Rutschman, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Mentoring Institute Conference, editor N. Dominguez, pg. 1154-1157 (University of New Mexico, 2015).
- Silver and Gold mediated nucleobase bonding, P. H. Acioli and S. Srinivas, Journal of Molecular Modeling 20, 2391 (2014).
- Experiential Learning of Classical Mechanics Through Molecular Dynamics, P. H. Acioli and S. Srinivas, Proceedings of the World Conference on Physics Education, Istanbul, Turkey, editor M. Taşar, p 385-396 (Pegem Akademi, 2013).
- Acting Associate Provost, Northeastern Illinois University 2023-present
- Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University (2022-2023)
- Acting Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University (2017-2022)
- Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Northeastern Illinois University (2017)
- Director, Student Center for Science Engagement, Northeastern Illinois University (2012-2014)
- Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2014-present)
- Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2008-2014)
- Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2005-2008)
Room C 120, Academic Affairs
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
University of Sofia, Bulgaria
M.A. Major: Philosophy, Minor: English
"Values and Creativity", "Moral Values and AIDS", "Gender Education in Bulgaria", "Education of Philosophy: A View from Inside".
“Gender Education in Bulgarian Schools”, Education (Sofia), No 4, 1998
“Education: A View from Inside”, Education (Sofia), No 5, 1997
“Values and Creativity”, Annual Records of Medical Academy, Sofia 1990
El Centro
Northeastern Illinois University
3390 N. Avondale Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States
Friday: 1:50-2:50 p.m. in Room CBM 140
Friday: 5:10-6:10 p.m. at El Centro
and by appointment
Columbia University
History, Ph.D., 1999
Threads of Empire: Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552-1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).
Room LWH 4081
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Genetics of model organisms
C. elegans
- Cell signaling via receptor tyrosine kinases
- Cell migration guidance mechanisms in the nematode C. elegans
My research focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms that control how complex, multicellular animals develop from single-cell fertilized eggs, a field known as Developmental Biology. We use molecular and genetic approaches in the model organism C. elegans to understand how cells within multicellular animals “talk” with each other to generate and maintain their normal structures and functions. Diseases such as cancer and a wide range of other pathologies arise from aberrations in the normal functioning of these processes. My specific areas of focus have concentrated on analyzing the cell-to-cell signaling mechanisms that guide migrating cells to their proper targets and that mediate fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling processes. The high degree of conservation of structure and function during metazoan evolution makes our findings in this organism applicable to our general understanding of biology, human biology and disease.
B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral research: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: Dr. H. Robert
Horvitz
Lo, T.-W., Bennett, D.C., Goodman, S.J., and Stern, M.J. (2010). Caenorhabditis elegans fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling can occur independently of the multi-substrate adaptor FRS2. Genetics 185: 537-547. PMID: 20308281
Kam, N., Kugler, H., Marelly, R., Appleby, L., Fisher J, Pnueli, A., Harel, D., Stern, M.J., Hubbard, E.J. (2008). A scenario-based approach to modeling development: a prototype model of C. elegans vulval fate specification. Dev. Biol. 323: 1-5. PMID: 18706404
Goodman, S.J., Branda, C.S., Robinson, M.K., Burdine, R.D. and Stern, M.J. (2003). Alternative splicing affecting a novel domain in the C. elegans EGL-15 FGF receptor confers functional specificity. Development 130: 3757-3766 PMID: 12835392
Mihaylova, V.T., Borland, C.Z., Manjarrez, L., Stern, M.J., and Sun, H. (1999). The PTEN tumor suppressor homolog in C. elegans regulates longevity and dauer formation in an insulin-receptor like signaling pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96: 7427-7432. PMID: 10377431
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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., The Union Institute and University
Professor Venetia Stifler draws upon a rich background in dance, theater and music. Her early training was at the Allegro School in Chicago. As a dancer she performed the works of Dan Wagner, Bill Evans, Charles Weidman and others. As a dancer the New York Times referred to Stifler as a "stunning performer" with magnetic stage presence." In 1980, she formed Venetia Stifler & Concert Dance, Inc., (CDI) a contemporary dance company which has received consistent and positive review by the press, both nationally and internationally. Stifler has choreographed over 25 major works, including the critically-acclaimed "The Chicago Project", a collaborative work combining original music and photography that used Chicago's rich architectural landscape as a vibrant backdrop.
Her choreographic work has won her numerous awards, including the coveted Ruth Page Award, given annually by the Chicago Dance and Music Alliance. Stifler earned a Ph.D. in Dance and holds a B.A. in Theatre and Music. She has trained with dance artists Bill Evans, Jennifer Mueller, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham and Dan Wagoner. Currently, Stifler is a tenured faculty member of the Department of Music and Dance at Northeastern Illinois University. She directs the Student Dance Ensemble and teaches technique and composition. She was the recent recipient of a "Faculty Excellence Award" for her work in choreography and production.
Dr. Stifler is also the Artistic Director of the Ruth Page Series. The official centennial birthday of Chicago cultural icon and international ballerina, Ruth Page, was 1999. Stifler was asked by the Ruth Page Foundation to plan and direct a year-long celebration which would bring increased recognition, and honor the much celebrated Page.
Stifler has performed as guest artist at colleges, universities and dance organizations nationwide. She has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, the Ruth Page Foundation, Quaker Oats, WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, Golf Construction, and Exxon-Mobil Foundation. She has served on the dance advisory panels for the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Council on Fine Arts organizations, and is a charter member and past president of the board of directors of the Chicago Dance Coalition (now the Chicago Dance and Music Alliance).
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