As part of their graduate program, LaToya McDonald, Jiayun Shen, Davis Ferriell and Kaitlyn Conway all worked as graduate assistants on our NSF funded S-STEM grant (SPECTRA). This summer, three of them traveled to Minneapolis, MN to present their work related to mentoring students within 2- and 4-yr engineering and science programs. In addition, we saw contributions from Spencer Davenport, UGA graduate student who interned with Dr. Kennedy, and graduate research assistants on the SPECTRA grant. The bolded names are of the student coauthors.
Work in Progress: Facilitating a year-long research course sequence for undergraduate transfer students within an NSF S-STEM scholarship program
Jiayun Shen, LaToya McDonald, Marian Kennedy
Work In Progress: Initiating a graduate teaching fellow program to support transfer students into engineering and computing
Marian Kennedy, William Ferriell, Spencer Davenport, Kaitlynn Conway
Work-in-Progress: Addressing Recruitment Issues with Potential Transfer Students from State Technical Colleges
Shannon Conner, Luke A Duncan, Louise Averitt, D. Matthew Boyer, Marian Kennedy
Dr. Kennedy also finally emerged from her office and attended this conference too. She presented her work on creating an undergraduate course related to finding, applying for and preparing for a first undergraduate research experience.
Work in Progress: Preparing Students for Undergraduate Research Online and In the Classroom – Framework, Participant Reflections, and Lessons Learned
Marian Kennedy, Cora Allard-Keese, Joshua D Alper, Jennie LaMonte, Aubrey Baldwin
