Symposium on Graduate Education: Defining Academic Success - Speakers
Monday, February 21, 2005, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Illini Union Rooms A, B, & C
Speakers
Mary Ann Mason was born and raised in Minnesota. She received a BA from Vassar College and PhD in American History from the University of Rochester. Moving to California, Mason taught history at San Francisco State University and St. Mary's College, and received a law degree from the University of San Francisco. She practiced law for several years and founded and directed the largest paralegal program in the West at St. Mary's College.
In 1989, Mason joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor in law and social welfare in the Graduate School of Social Welfare. Over the next decade, she achieved the rank of full professor while authoring several books and several dozen articles on family law and policy and children's rights. She is considered a national expert on child custody issues, having addressed numerous national and international conferences and workshops on children and family issues and made many national media appearances. Among her books are two major works on child custody, From Father's Property to Children's Rights: A History of Child Custody in America and The Custody Wars: Why Children are Losing the Legal Battles and What We Can Do About It. In recent years she has expanded her research interests to stepfamilies.
In 2000, Mason was appointed Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley, with responsibility for nearly 10,000 graduate students and more than 100 graduate programs. In addition to her administrative duties, Mason co-directs a major research project on the impact of family on the career paths of academic women and men, entitled Do Babies Matter?
Mason is married to psychologist Paul Ekman and has two children, Tom and Eve.
Nancy Abelmann is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; she is also a teaching faculty member of Asian American Studies. She earned a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in East Asian Studies at Harvard University. She has published books on social movements in contemporary South Korea (Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement), University of California Press, 1996); on Korean America (Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots, with John Lie, Harvard University Press, 1995); and on women and social mobility in post-colonial South Korea (The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk and Class in Contemporary South Korea, University of Hawai’i Press 2003). Her co-edited volume with Kathleen McHugh, Gender, Genre, and Nation: South Korean Golden Age Melodrama, is in press at Wayne State University Press. Currently she is completing The Intimate University: College and the Korean American Family.
Kal Alston is the Director of the Gender & Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of GWS and Educational Policy Studies. Professor Alston is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She is the editor of Philosophy of Education 2003 (2004) and spent 2003-04 at Smith College as an American Council on Education Fellow. Her recent work has focused on representations of race and gender in educational philosophy and cultural practice. She is the current chair of the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women.
Stephen Boppart is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering, having joined the faculty in 2000. He is also a Resident Physician in the College of Medicine, combining biomedical imaging research with patient care. He received his PhD in Medical and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998, followed by his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2000. His undergraduate and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering were completed at UIUC in 1990 and 1991, respectively. Professor Boppart's research interests are in the use of lasers and light for diagnosing disease such as early-stage cancer, with 7 book chapters, over 80 invited and contributed publications, over 225 invited and contributed presentations, and 11 patents related to this field. He is Marni's husband of ten years and father to two children, Alexandria, age 3½, and Trent age 1½.
Paula Havlik received her BA ('77) and MA ('79) degrees from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. She has been a UI staff member since 1984, serving in public relations, development and alumni affairs positions for a variety of UI units, including WILL-AM-FM-TV, the Office of Women's Studies, Allerton Park and Conference Center, and the School of Social Work. In her current role as the UI Alumni Association's Associate Director for Club & Constituent Programs, she oversees relationships with college and department-based alumni associations and regional alumni chapters throughout the world.
Greg Lambeth is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Illinois and he has worked at the University of Illinois Counseling Center since 1994. He has a strong interest in providing outreach and clinical services to graduate students and he established a liaison between the Counseling Center and Graduate College in 1996. He has also been the Therapeutic Services Coordinator at the Counseling Center for the past 2 years. Dr. Lambeth received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and he completed his internship at the University of Missouri Counseling Center in 1993. His professional and clinical interests include accessibility issues for students with disabilities, the diagnosis and treatment of Attention-Deficit Disorders in adults and treatment of mood disorders.
Michael Loui has served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at Illinois since 1981. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Under Professor Loui's supervision, seventeen students have completed master's theses, and nine have completed doctoral dissertations; he has served on over fifty other doctoral committees. From 1990 to 1991, Professor Loui directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 1996 to 2000, he was an associate dean of the Graduate College at Illinois, with administrative responsibility for all graduate academic programs on campus. In 1995, Professor Loui received the campus's Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001, he was named a University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. In 2003, he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Sarah MacDonald is a third-year PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant with the Center for Writing Studies in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA in British and American Literature from Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois in 2002. She teaches Rhetoric 105, and recently won the English Department’s Outstanding Teaching Award. Her research interests include literacy studies, map theory and its intersection with visual rhetoric and human communication, and composition pedagogy. She expects to receive her PhD in 2008.
Sarah Mangelsdorf is acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of psychology. Mangelsdorf earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1980 from Oberlin College in Ohio, and earned her doctorate in child psychology in 1988 from the University of Minnesota. She joined the psychology department faculty at Illinois in 1992, after four years as a professor at the University of Michigan. From 1999 to 2001, she was an associate head of the department, then served as an associate provost for the campus from 2001 to 2003. She was head of the psychology department from August 2003 until her appointment as acting dean in August 2004. Mangelsdorf is the author of numerous articles on child development and developmental psychology, and has served on the editorial boards of five academic journals in the field of psychology. She has been honored several times for her teaching, including the William Prokasy Teaching Award (1998), the highest award for teaching in LAS, and has appeared consistently on the campus list of excellent teachers.
Maria Mobasseri has served as Department Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science & Information Technology for Parkland College since 2000. Her teaching experience at Parkland also includes a number of semesters as an instructor for Chemistry and Math. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1988, and completed an MS in Food Science & Human Nutrition from UIUC in 1999. As a research assistant in the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory at UIUC, she participated in data analysis (Matlab and SPSS), ultrasonic experimentation, signals and system analysis on Linux platform. Ms. Mobasseri is a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI), and a certified Broadband Engineer.
James Painter serves as the Chair for the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. His extensive background in Food Science leadership extends more than two decades, including work as a Senior Food Service Director for Marriott and president of the Eastern Illinois Dietetic Association. Dr. Painter has authored numerous articles and provided dozens of invited professional lectures for organizations including The Culinary Institute of Florence, the USDA, the Illinois Bed & Breakfast Association, the National Soybean Research Lab, Kraft, and the Illinois House & Senate Agriculture Committee. Dr. Painter earned his MS in Food, Nutrition, and Institution Administration from Oklahoma State University in 1990, followed by a PhD in Human Resource and Family Studies from UIUC in 1999.
Christopher J. Prom is Assistant University Archivist and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois, where he is responsible for managing digital projects, supervising archival processing, and providing reference service. His main research interests concern how archival users seek information relevant to their needs and how they use electronic tools. Chris was the recipient of a 2003-04 National Historical Publications and Records Commission fellowship and a 1997-98 Fulbright fellowship. Dr. Prom holds a PhD in History from the University of Illinois, where he wrote a dissertation regarding mutual aid societies in late-Victorian Britain.
Brandy Russell has been a postdoctoral fellow in the chemistry department at UIUC for the past two years. Her research is in the area of bioinorganic chemistry, in her postdoctoral work, she is engineering novel metalloproteins with reactivity toward oxygen and nitric oxide. In addition to her laboratory research, she is collaborating with her advisor, Professor Yi Lu, on a new teaching project: a unique, multi-level, multidisciplinary course for science majors (supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute). She graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Prof. Kara Bren's group at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) in 2003. Her doctoral work centered on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigations of metalloprotein folding, conformational dynamics, and stability. She earned her B.A. in chemistry at Alfred University (Alfred, NY), where she performed research under the guidance of Professor Johanna Crane. This summer, she will launch her independent career as a professor at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest, where she will continue to explore her interests in metalloprotein folding.
Bridget Trogden is a doctoral candidate in chemistry here at the University of Illinois and will graduate in the coming months. Her research studies involve discovering the functions of the estrogen receptor through chemical manipulation. Trogden received her BA in chemistry with a minor in music from Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky) in 2000. In the fall of 2005, she will be starting at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She is dedicated to the causes of higher education and has served and will continue to serve in a variety of roles to support higher education and programming.
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