nderc 2010-2011
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This is the Principle Investigator's section of the 2011 NDeRC Annual Report. NDeRC is an NSF-sponsored GK-12 program at the University of Notre Dame.TRANSCRIPT
NDeRC Annual Report—PI Section
The Notre Dame extended Research Community (NDeRC) project (DGE-0638723) is completing its fourth year. Professor Mitchell R. Wayne is PI, and Dr. Rachel Fulcher-Dawson is the project external evaluator. This annual report covers the period from June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011.
A. Participants1. Senior Personnel
Senior Personnel
Description of Position
Time on Project
Affiliation & Position Description of Contribution
Mitchell Wayne PI 4 years Chair, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Coordinates Senior Personnel; Oversees relations with NSF; Coordinates with University Partners
Thomas Loughran
Managing Co-PI 4 years Professional Specialist, Dept of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Project articulation, development of partnerships, communication strategies
Daniel Karmgard
Co-PI 4 years Research Professor, Dept of Physics,Univ of Notre Dame
Advises particle physics outreach; technical support
Douglas Thain Co-PI 4 years Assoc Prof., Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ of Notre Dame
Coordinates with College of Engineering
Patrick Mooney Project Coordinator
4 years Professional Specialist, Dept of Physics, Univ of Notre Dame
Responsible for day-to-day operation of the project, assisting with project articulation and reporting
Rachel Fulcher-Dawson
External Evaluator
9 months Independent Scholar External evaluation: some data gathering, gives formative input to PIs
2. Fellows
Active NDeRC Fellows (2nd
year of Cohort II)
year in program
major research topic statement of graduate location & nature of graduate work
ethnicity & gender
Katherine Rueff
4th yr of PhD
Physics Star formation and the interstellar medium in the thick disks of spiral galaxies
College of Science & conducing research
white & female
Aranda Slabbekoorn
5th year PhD
Chemistry & Biochem
Biochemical analysis of the Alzheimer protein Tau and its interaction with microtubules of different conformations and the investigation of Tau-Tau interactions at the microtubule surface.
College of Science & conducing research
white & female
Michelle Dolan
7th year PhD
Physics Computational modeling of stellar evolution College of Science & writing dissertation
white female
Michael Crocker
6th year PhD
Computer Science and Engineering
Circuits and architectures for emerging nanotechnology: nanomagnet logic
College of Engineering & completing dissertation
white & male
Carrie Rodak
5th yr of PhD
Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
Probabilistic Risk analysis using system performance criteria for wellhead protection and the identification of human health risks
College of Engineering, conducting research and writing dissertation
white & female
Rebecca 4th Chemistry Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study College of Science & white &
Quardokus yr of PhD
& Biochem
Comparing Neutral and Mixed-Valence Dinuclear Organometallic Molecules on Au(111)
conducting research female
Valerie Goss 5th yr of Ph.D.
Chemistry & Biochem
Potential Dependent DNA Origami Binding on Silicon Surfaces & In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy Liquid Imaging
College of Science & Preparing for Candidacy Exam
black & female
Active NDeRC Fellows (1st year of Cohort III)
Year in graduate program
major Research topic Statement of graduate location & nature of graduate work
Ethnicity & gender
Aprell Carr 6th yr of PhD (starting)
Cellular Biology
Role of the Stil gene in dopaminergic cells College of Science & conducting research
african-american/black female
Francis Raycroft
5th year of PhD
Biology Retinal Regeneration in Zebrafish College of Science & conducing research
white & male
Jamie Antonelli
6th yr of PhD
Physics Measuring the decay of the Z boson using the CMS detector at the LHC
College of Science & writing dissertation
white & male
Jessica Mikels
3rd yr of PhD (5th yr at ND)
Sociology Human/environmental interaction, cultural constructions of nature, place-based environmental education
College of Arts and Letters & Preparing for Candidacy Exams
white & female
Past NDeRC Fellows
Year in graduate program
Major Research topic Statement of graduate location & nature of graduate work
Ethnicity & gender
Jill Dzurisin 6th yr of PhD Chemisty & Biochemistry
The study of cytoskeletal proteins that interact with microtubules and membranes
College of Science – Writing Dissertation
white & female
Ryan Connaughton
End of 5th year of PhD
Computer Science & Engineering
Combining face and iris Biometrics for automatic person identification
College of Engineering - Conducting experiments and writing dissertation
white & male
Joseph Ribaudo
Finished Ph.D. Astrophysics May 2011
Physics Interstellar Medium
Moving to tenure track position in upstate NY
white & male
Douglas Berry
End of 4th year of PhD
Physics Higgs Boson decaying to 2 photons in the CMS detector at the LHC
Geneva Switzerland - Preparing early analysis framework for Higgs to diphoton analysis.
Biracial (Caucasian & African American) & Male
James Whitcomb
Graduated with PhD
Biology The role of vitamin D and its receptor in
Researcher at Siemens, Inc.
white & male
immunity to Leishmania infection
Brighid Corcoran
5th year PhD Chemistry & Biochemistry
Electron Beam Lithography of SAMs and their potential for nanoelectronics
College of Science – research and dissertation
white & female
Annette Raigoza
7th year of PhD
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of mixed self-assembled monolayers
College of Science & writing dissertation
hispanic & female
3. Organization PartnersTable of Primary Fellow-Teacher Classroom Interactions
IndianaSchool Name
SettingType% F/R lunchAYP?
Class Name, grade
Description of Activity NSF-Funded Fellows,
Teachers #F, #T
Adams High School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Honors Earth/Space Science9, 10, 11, 12
ASTRO Week; twice-weekly classroom visits
Katherine RueffCaroline Fletcher
1,1
Bremen High School
RuralPublic31-40%No
Astronomy11, 12
Twice-weekly classroom visits
Michelle Dolan Michael McNeely
1,1
Clay High School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Biology9
Twice-weekly classroom visits
Aranda Slabbekoorn Mark Ballentine
1,1
Edison Intermediate Center
UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science 5, 8
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Janelle Moran,Karen Kennedy
1,2
Heritage Intermediate School
UrbanPublic31-40%No
Science5
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Beth Hawn
1,1
Holy Family School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Science5
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Jeanne DuBois
3,1
John Young Middle School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Science 8
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Walt Buras
3,1
LaSalle Intermediate Center
UrbanPublic41-50%Yes
Science6
ASTRO Week Michelle Dolan, Katherine Rueff Stephanie Modlin
2,1
LaSalle Intermediate Center
UrbanPublic41-50%Yes
Science8
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Madeleine Martinez, Patricia Chrenka
1,2
LaSalle Intermediate Center
UrbanPublic41-50%Yes
Science6
NANO Week Valerie Goss, Rebecca QuardokusSharon Brandt
2,1
Marian High School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Research Survey11, 12
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Ken Andrzejewski
3,1
Marquette Urban Early Childhood Weekly Jessica Mikels 1,1
Montessori Academy
Public71-80%Yes
Kindergarten Environmental Science Activities
Kathe Streeter
Mishawaka High School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Biology9, 10
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Alicia Harkins-Pritchett
1,1
Mishawaka High School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Chemistry10, 11
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Dave Dobrzykowski, Dan Witt
3,2
New Prairie High School
UrbanPublic21-30%No
Biology9
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak John Gensic
1,1
Northridge Middle School
UrbanPublic31-40%Yes
Science8
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Erin Wagner,Amy Hively
3,2
Osolo Elementary School
UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science 4
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Bryan Nowakowski
3,1
Penn High School
UrbanPublic11-20%No
Chemistry10, 11
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Lynda Rose
3,1
Prairie Vista Elementary
UrbanPublic1-10%Yes
Science5
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Nancy Koontz
1 ,1
St. Bavo School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Science4, 5
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Gina Mynsberge
1,1
St. Joseph’s High School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Environ-mental Science11, 12
ENVIRO Week Carolyn Rodak Michael Walsh
1,1
St. Joseph’s High School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Chemistry11, 12
Week-long Intro to Particle Physics Workshop with CMS run data
Louis Antonelli Brian Dolezal,Chris Culver
1,2
St. Joseph’s High School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Genetics11
GENO Week Aprell Carr, Francis Raycroft, Aranda SlabbekoornTracy Gergely
3,1
St. Joseph’s High School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Genetics (Fall Semester)10, 11, 12
GENO Week Aprell Carr, Francis Raycroft, Aranda Slabbekoorn Jann Brunner,Tracy Gergely
3,2
Stanley Clark School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Science2
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Michelle Havens
3,1
Stanley Clark School
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
AstroWeek2
ASTRO Week Michelle Dolan, Katherine Rueff Michelle Havens
2,1
Swanson Primary Center
UrbanPublic61- 70%No
Science1
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Rebecca Quardokus Cindy Skoczylas
2,1
Trinity School atGreenlawn
UrbanPrivateN/A
Chemistry/Biochemistry10
GENO Week Aprell Carr, Francis Raycroft, Aranda Slabbekoorn
3,1
N/A John LeeTrinity School at Greenlawn
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Physics & Computer Programming11
Semester-long daily assistance with MATLAB
Michael Crocker Patrick Malone
1,1
Trinity School at Greenlawn
UrbanPrivateN/AN/A
Physics & Computer Programming12
Particle Physics: CMS run data analysis with MATLAB
Jamie AntonelliTom Loughran (co-PI)Patrick Mooney (PC)Tom Finke
1,2,1
Kandel Lab, University of Notre Dame
N/AN/AN/AN/A
Saint Joseph High School Research Community student researcher in lab
biweekly STM/AFM investigation of alpha-bombarded surfaces
Rebecca Quardokus 1
Washington High School
UrbanPublic71-80%No
Honors Biology9
GENO Week Aprell Carr, Francis Raycroft, Aranda Slabbekoorn Susan Rathwick
3,1
Woodland Elementary School
UrbanPublic91-100%No
Science4
NANO Week Michael Crocker, Valerie Goss, Rebecca Quardokus Michael Wagner
3,1
BioEYES Weeks: Teacher/Fellow-initiated, Teacher-staffed, Fellow-assistedNote: while we follow the NSF-suggested guidelines for the table of primary Fellow-Teacher interactions, we modify that format for the unusual BioEYES case to highlight the number of students impacted (each impacted over a period of 5 classes in a single week) by the BioEYES activity, which was launched by Fellows but maintained largely by teachers.
IndianaSchool Name
SettingType% F/R lunchAdYrlyProgress?
Class Name, grade
Description of Activity(note: this activity was begun by Fellows but sustained by staff teacher
NSF-Funded Fellows NSF-Funded TeachersUnfunded (FY ’10-‘11) Teachers
Number of students
Adams High School
UrbanPublic51-60%No
Biology9
BioEYES (H), a week-long zebrafish genetics & embryology activity, with 3 different levels (Primary,Middle,High)
Anita BeebeEmily Zablocki
150
Brown UrbanPublic81-90%No
Science6, 7
BioEYES (M) Aprell CarrAnita BeebeSharon Tipton, Jason Zook
160
Christ the King UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science1, 2
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeJanelle MillerLee Jolly
85
Clay High School UrbanPublic51-60%No
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeCarrie BidwellMark Ballentine
225
Discovery Middle UrbanPublic11-20%Yes
Science7
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeTim Braunsdorf
150
Edison Intermediate UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science5
BioEYES (5) Anita BeebeJanelle MoranMary Cook, Aaron Patterson
90
Good Shepherd Montessori
UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeBarbara GarlandJudy Hatch
30
Heritage Intermediate UrbanPublic31-40%No
Science3
BioEYES (P) Francis RaycroftAnita BeebeMark Anderson, Kahil Schertz, Carla Kasten, Anne Toth, J.
125
RaycroftJackson Intermediate Urban
Public71-80%No
Science6, 7
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeMary SwopeSalima Oughdiri
170
Kennedy Primary Academy Urban
Public31-40%Yes
ScienceK, 3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeBrad RakerRachel McDonough,Lindsey Althouse,C. Belt
185
LaSalle Intermediate
UrbanPublic41-50%Yes
Science6, 8
BioEYES (M) Aranda SlabbekoornAnita BeebePat Chrenka,Madeleine MartinezStephanie ModlinSharon Brandt
375
LaVille Jr. Sr. Urban Public31-40%No
Science7, 9
BioEYES (M, H) Anita BeebeLynn Barden
155
Mishawaka H.S. UrbanPublic51-60%No
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeAlicia Harkins
180
New Prairie High School
UrbanPublic21-30%No
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeJohn Gensic
150
New Prairie Middle
UrbanPublic31-40%Yes
Science6
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeJeff MeinhardLori Rose
275
Nuner Primary UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeRobert Guerrero
60
Riverside Intermediate
UrbanPublic51-60%Yes
Science6
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeAnna MillerKim BurnsTillie KainSue Turpin
280
St. Bavo UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science5
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeGina Mynsberge
15
St. Joe Grade School S.B.
UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science5
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeKristin Darden
55
St. Joe H.S. UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeTracey GergelyDeb SemmlerPaul Carrier,
240
St. Joe Mishawaka UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science6
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebePatty Karban
30
St. Jude UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science3, 6, 8
BioEYES (P, M) Anita BeebeJaclyn VossKathy Wolfram
90
St. Monica UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science7, 8
BioEYES (M) Anita Beebe, Aileen Mattimore
41
St. Pius UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science7, 8
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeLisa Nyers
34
Stanley Clark UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Science1, 2
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeMichelle HavensPatrice HindsleyHeather Kerckhove
75
Swanson Primary UrbanPublic61-70%No
Science3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeBetsy Steele
100
Tarkington Traditional UrbanPublic31-40%No
Science3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeMargaret MooreMary Anderson
60
Trinity School at Greenlawn
UrbanPrivate N/AN/A
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeMatt Bartek
30
Warren Primary UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science1 ,2, 3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeMark AlexanderBeth Bokhart
75
Washington H.S. UrbanPublic71-80%No
Biology9
BioEYES (H) Anita BeebeSusan Rathwick,Larry Laskowski,Kasi Bolden
280
West Side Middle, Elk. UrbanPublic71-80%No
Science6, 7, 8
BioEYES (M) Anita BeebeDeb Giles
25
Wilson UrbanPublic71-80%Yes
Science3
BioEYES (P) Anita BeebeCarol Govek
25
Total Schools: 32 Total Students:
4020
4. Other Collaborators
Non-K-12 Collaborators
Activity description Contributions Key Personnel
Genotyp Product development and testing in Summer Institute and classroom implementations of Genotyp’s Cloning a Fluorescent Gene module; Lesson prep materials
Genotyp: led teacher workshopNDeRC: troubleshoot CAFG module
Fellows: Carr, Raycroft, Slabbekorn;Project Coordinator Mooney
BioEYES at University of Pennsylvania & Carnegie Inst. for Science
NDeRC collaborates on authoring, reviewing, printing booklets for all BioEYES sites
authored & produced booklets, surveys
Fellows: Carr, RaycroftTeacher: Beebe, plus 34 other funded (and many nonfunded) teachers this year
Michiana Astronomical Society
Collaboration on Transit of Venus component in 2011 ASTRO Institute for teachers; lunar sample bag testing with
from each: time on collaboration
Fellows: Rueff, DolanCo-PI Loughran
scanning probe microscopyNISMEC, with support from Siemens
Support of NISMEC/Seimens-sponsored Sensing Our World with water source mapping
NISMEC/ Siemens: management of SOW week
Fellows Rodak, Mikels, Crocker; Teachers Gensic, Walsh; Co-PI Loughran
Saint Joseph County Public Library
Science Alive! SJCPL provides space, publicity, lunch
Fellows:
ETHOS Science Spooktakular! ETHOS: space, publicity
Fellows Rodak, Goss, Quardokus; Proj. Coord. Mooney; Co-PI Loughran
JHoSDigital Visualization Theatre
Fellows trained to lead DVT presentations in astronomy to visiting K-12 school groups
DVT provided training; NDeRC Fellows led tours
Fellows: Rueff, DolanFormer Fellow: RibaudoTeacher: Fletcher
Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
Collaboration on Middle School astroimaging project during two middle school science visits (Edison Middle, Riverbend Community Math)
JINA coordinated visits; NDeRC led astroimaging
Fellows: RueffFormer Fellow: RibaudoCo-PI Loughran
Riverbend Community Mathematics Center
Collaboration on Summer 2010 Sensing our World water source mapping project Spring 2011; JINA-NDeRC-co-sponsored student visit to ND
Riverbend provided GPS units; NDeRC trained students
Fellows: Rueff, Rodak, Mikels, Ribaudo (from previous cohort)Teachers:Gensic, WalshCo-PI Loughran
Expanding Your Horizons
Fellows discussed STEM careers with middle school girls as part of EYH day-long activity at Notre Dame
EYH provided venue and logistics; NDeRC Fellows presented
Fellows: Goss, Quardokus
Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
Housed offices, meeting space; maintenance support; collaboration in various outreach activities
Staff support from NDQC donated
Blacketor (staff)Beebe (teacher)Proj. Coord. MooneyCo-PI Loughran
ND Office of Public Affairs & Communication
Provided web site, photography support; co-sponsored annual Forum
$1500 Forum support
All 11 Fellows, nearly all teachers, Sr. Personnel Wayne, Mooney, Loughran
ND Graduate School
Inclusion of endowed Schmitt Fellows in MichianaSTEM blogging; Forum support
$2000 Forum Support
Same as above
ND College of Science
Communications support; Forum support
$2000 Forum Support
Same as above
B. Project Summary1. Goals and Activities
This 2010-11 year has been exceptionally busy in support of NDeRC’s project goals. These goals amount to including Fellows as leaders and interns in an integrated STEM community in Michiana. While most of the data in support of this activity is presented in tabular form in section A and in Section B2 below, textual summaries of our primary modes of activity are included under each of our project goals in this section B1.
Goal 1: To incorporate graduate students into the life and work of the Michiana STEM Community so as to awaken in them a sense of responsibility for education and public outreach and to provide them with an Integrated STEM Community model for effective exercise of that responsibility. (See https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=d98wjv3_693gn88jjhh)
Primary supporting activities:All-hands biweekly meetings of Fellows, Teachers, and Project Management (Mooney,
Loughran) occurred every other Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:30, with teachers joining as their schedules permitted, usually just for the second hour. Topics for discussion included: updates on research; progress in classroom visitations, both weekly and on the STEM-Week model; planning informal educational events; public communication about science; online activities (blogging and wikis.)
Collaboration-specific activities included Summer fellow-teacher-student laboratory experiences, the planning and implementation of Summer Institutes for K-12 teachers, and the STEM-Week model of week-long classroom activities.
Classroom visits varied by collaboration: in addition to the series of STEM-Week (NANO, ENVIRO, ASTRO, GENO, and BioEYES) visits documented in the table above, Fellows Rueff (with Teacher Fletcher), Dolan (one trimester with McNeeley), Crocker (with Malone), and Slabbekoorn (with Ballentine) worked together in classrooms once or twice-weekly, year-round.
Support of informal education activities (in libraries, community centers, planetariums, science fair competitions, etc.) was an ad hoc but reasonably frequent component of the NDeRC pattern of life. See section A4 for details.
Maintaining a vibrant web presence (blogs, wikis, other social media) was a regular part of NDeRC activity in support of all 3 NDeRC goals. See section B2 below for URLs and a map of the NDeRC blogosphere. This year saw an 11-month 39% increase in blog posting from last year, and 250% increase in subscriptions.
Goal 2: To bring the experience of belonging to the research community to a wider range of K-12 teachers and students in the surrounding area.
Primary Supporting ActivitiesCollaborating for Research and Education Forum IV (linked here) was held in January
2011; 100 teachers, 15 graduate fellows, and 15 university faculty/staff participated in the event. Presentations were made by half a dozen collaborating partners; U.S. Representative Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana 3rd) attended. 100 of the attendees at this forum accepted invitations and are now subscribed to the MichianaSTEM Community blog.
Summer Institutes (BioEYES, NANO, ENVIRO, ASTRO, GENO) were held during Summer 2010. A total of 93 teachers (25 BioEYES, 15 NANO, 24 Enviro, 23 ASTRO, 6 GENO) attended these week-long institutes. Stipends were provided at $100/teacher/day.
Note on Stipends: this year no stipends were provided neither for the Forum--whose attendance slipped from roughly 200 to roughly 100 teachers—nor for the upcoming Summer Institutes—also down, with 51 teachers currently registered. Some of this 50% decrease may be due to the lack of stipends, and due to saturation of the market, and some due to advertizing. Forum attendance is linked to Institute attendance, since the Forum is our primary vehicle for marketing the Institutes to teachers. We view it as encouraging that our attendance for both the Forum and the Institute held as well as it did, in the aftermath of eliminating stipends, which was done both for budgetary reasons and as a step toward a more sustainable model for these activities.
Figure 1: NANO Week introduction of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) at Swanson Primary Center. See their published presentations on their NANO and BioEYES weeks embedded and linked from this NDeRC blog post.
STEM-Weeks continued to be a success as a vehicle for extending an invitation into STEM community with teachers to their students. Like NDeRC’s adaptation of the BioEYES Institute, every STEM Institute devotes roughly a third of its time to each of the following categories: 1) the content of the STEM-Week classroom activity; 2) providing content knowledge as background to the activity; and 3) tours/presentations of university research related to the activity, led by NDeRC Fellows. Details of participation are present in the table found in Section A3 above. Participant numbers by STEM-Week type are summarized here: BioEYES: 62 K-12 teachers, 4020 students; NANO: 14 K-12 teachers, 1006 students; ENVIRO: 11 K-12 teachers, 977 students; (143 wells tested and mapped: http://erc.nd.edu/blogs/blog/2011/05/16/a-unique-data-set/); ASTRO: 4 K-12 teachers, 180 students; GENO: 4 K-12 teachers, 198 students.
TOTALS from STEM Weeks: 6636 students; 107 teachers, 70 schools, 259 different classes in the past year alone. All of these contacts are at least a week long in duration. Of these totals, 3251 students and 58 teachers experienced at least one week-long interaction with Fellows. These numbers are evidence for proof-of-concept success for a central NDeRC strategy: increasing the surface area of our
capacity to issue invitations to Michiana K-12 teachers and students into Integrated STEM Community.
Goal 3: To strengthen and expand avenues of collaboration between the University of Notre Dame and surrounding K-12 institutions.
This third goal has been clarified for us in light of the Integrated STEM Community model: it is not just Notre Dame’s relationships with surrounding K-12 institutions we seek to foster, but a broader network of University-K-12-Community ties; our supportive activities illustrate our pursuit of this broader goal.
Primary Supporting ActivitiesNDeRC’s ongoing collaboration with more than 70 K-12 schools has been
documented in detail in the tables above (section A3.)As is evident in part from our table of collaborating partners (table A4), NDeRC has
maintained a visible and catalytic presence with its community partners. The number and kind of these interactions is large and difficult to quantify. Below is a list of highlights:
NDeRC’s Collaborating for Research and Education Forum continued to bring together a wide arrange of university partners, including this year two parent groups (No Parent Left Behind and Home Management Services: see http://www.michianastem.org/family) who had never worked together until NDeRC called them together to plan for this Forum.
Carnegie Classification for Civic Engagement : NDeRC was a central player in the University of Notre Dame’s successful petition to achieve this classification.
Education Collaborative Council: PI Wayne and Co-PI Loughran participate monthly in the ECC. From their web site: “Comprised of 18-20 administrators, faculty, and staff from the University of Notre Dame, the South Bend Community School Corporation, Saint Mary’s College, Holy Cross College, Indiana University South Bend, and Ivy Tech Community College, the Education Collaborative Council is a mutually beneficial partnership whose purpose is to help guide strategic, long-term efforts to positively influence student performance and test scores, and to improve graduation rates in South Bend.” (http://publicaffairs.nd.edu/k-12-education/education-hub/.)
Chamber of Commerce Education event: NDeRC send a contingent of some dozen PIs, Fellows and Project Manager Mooney to participate in a community-wide breakfast discussion on the importance of education for community prosperity.
Nanotechnology Plunge: NDeRC joined the Midwest Institute for Nanotechology Devices (MIND), and the Memoral Hospital Foundation in their effort to provide a “Nano Plunge” to 100 business leaders from Michiana. Half a dozen NDeRC senior personnel and Fellows attended the event, showcasing our three mobile scanning probe microscopes in the foyer of the event. See http://science.nd.edu/research/profiles/nderc_nanotechnology.htm
Event broadcasting to 100 K-12 teacher blog subscribers: NDeRC’s MichianaSTEM Community blog is becoming a venue for announcements: four times this Spring announcements of events (two from Physics, one from Public Affairs and
Communication, one from the Northern Indiana Science, Mathematics and Engineering Collaboration) were make to K-12 educators
Visitations to ND from local schools or other student groups: This year NDeRC organized, co-hosted or otherwise supported a variety of one-day visits from a variety of local schools, always working with other university partners. See the table in section A4 of this report, and Table 2.1 of our evaluator’s appendix.
Activities added to partnering organization events: Other collaborative activities reached out to students neither in classrooms nor at the university, but in sites organized by co-sponsoring partners: Science Alive! at the Saint Joseph Public Library; Science Spooktakular at the ETHOS Center in Elkhart; at summer camps organized by NISMEC and the Michiana Astronomical Society; etc.
2. Communication
Presentations and Publications:Achievement Type Citation
Scientific product * Michael Crocker, X. Sharon Hu, and Michael Niemier, “Design and Comparison of NML Systolic Architectures” International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pages 29-34, June 2010 Oral presentation given June 2010 in Anaheim, California, USA
Conference presentation/posterEducational product - Institutional presentation
*Carr A, *Raycroft F, *Slabbekoorn A; An Invitation to the 2010 GENO Summer Institute: A presentation to local K-12 STEM Teachers at the Collaborating for Education and Research Forum IV; January 2011; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN.
Conference presentation/posterEducational product - Institutional presentation
*Dolan M, +Fletcher C, +McNeeley A, *Rueff K; An Invitation to the 2010 ASTRO Summer Institute: A presentation to local K-12 STEM Teachers at the Collaborating for Education and Research Forum IV; January 2011; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN.
Conference presentation/posterScientific product *Quardokus, R.C., Yuhui, L., Wasio, N.A., Guo, S., Kandel, S.A., (2010)
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study Comparing Neutral and Mixed-Valence Dinuclear Organometallic Molecules on Au(111). 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
Conference presentation/posterScientific product *Raycroft, F., Kassen, D., and Hyde, D. Role of Socs Proteins in the Light-
damaged Regenerating Zebrafish Retina. Poster Presentation at 9th International Zebrafish Meeting. June 2010. University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin.
Conference presentation/posterScientific product *Rodak, C. and Silliman, S. (2010) "Application of Probabilistic Risk Analysis
and Fault Trees to Wellhead Protection". American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec 16, 2010.
Conference presentation/posterEducational product - Institutional presentation
+Brandt S, *Crocker M, *Goss V, *Quardokus R, +Rose L; An Invitation to the 2010 NANO Summer Institute: A presentation to local K-12 STEM Teachers at the Collaborating for Education and Research Forum IV; January 2011; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN.
Conference presentation/posterEducational product - Institutional presentation
+Gensic J, *Mikels J, *Rodak C, +Walsh M; An Invitation to the 2010 ENVIRO Summer Institute: A presentation to local K-12 STEM Teachers at the Collaborating for Education and Research Forum IV; January 2011; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN.
Conference presentation/posterEducational product - Instructional product
*Carr A, Peyer D, Peyer J, *Raycroft F, *Slabbekoorn A; GENOweek: Lesson Plans for K-12 Classrooms
Curriculums and lesson plansEducational product - Instructional product
*Dolan M, +Fletcher C, +McNeeley A, *Rueff K; ASTROweek: Lesson Plans for K-12 Classrooms
Curriculums and lesson plansEducational product - Instructional product
+Brandt S, *Crocker M, *Goss V, *Quardokus R, +Rose L; NANOweek: Lesson Plans for K-12 Classrooms
Curriculums and lesson plansEducational product - Instructional product
+Gensic J, *Mikels J, *Rodak C, +Walsh M; ENVIROweek: Lesson Plans for K-12 Classrooms
Curriculums and lesson plansEducational product - Instructional product
*Rueff, K., *Dolan, M., +Fletcher, C., +McNeeley A., +Modlin, S., +Havens, M., +Dove, C., +Chance, R.,: Digital Visualization Theater Presentation of A Journey Through the Solar System & the Universe.
Instructional materialsEducational product - Educational research
*Mikels-Carrasco, Jessica. 2010. Nature in our own backyards: Urban ecology and children. Children, Youth and Environments 20(2): 190-199.
Journals - RefereedScientific product *Rodak, C. and Silliman, S. (2011) “Probabilistic risk analysis and fault
trees: Initial discussion of application to identification of risk at a wellhead”. Advances in Water Resources xxx (2011) xxx-xxx. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres. 2011.02.005 Article in press.
Journals - RefereedScientific product Gupta, K., Joyce, M., *Slabbekoorn, A., Zhu, Z., Paulson, B., & Goodson, H.
(2010). Probing Interactions Between CLIP-170, EB1, and Microtubules. J Mol Biol 395(5) pp.1049-1062.
Journals - RefereedScientific product Lu, Y., *Quardokus, R., Lent, C.S., Justaud, F., Lapinte, C., Kandel, S.A.,
(2010) Charge Localization in Isolated Mixed-Valence Complexes: An STM and Theoretical Study. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 13519-13525. doi:10.1021/ja105958p.
Journals - RefereedEducational product - Instructional product
*Carr A, Peyer D, Peyer J, *Raycroft F, *Slabbekoorn A; 2010 GENO Summer Institute at the University of Notre Dame: Professional Development for K-12 STEM Teachers
Teaching modulesEducational product - Instructional product
*Dolan M, +Fletcher C, +McNeeley A, *Rueff K; 2010 ASTRO Summer Institute at the University of Notre Dame: Professional Development for K-12 STEM Teachers
Educational product - Instructional product
+Brandt S, *Crocker M, *Goss V, *Quardokus R, +Rose L ; 2010 NANO Summer Institute at the University of Notre Dame: Professional Development for K-12 STEM Teachers
Teaching modulesEducational product - Instructional product
+Gensic J, *Mikels J, *Rodak C, +Walsh M; 2010 ENVIRO Summer Institute at the University of Notre Dame: Professional Development for K-12 STEM Teachers
Website developed as result of GK-12 activities
Type Address PurposeWeb site erc.nd.edu a central site with background and
links to complementary social mediaWiki Web Home
michianastem.org a web of wikis where members can create free educational wikis
Collaboration michianastem.org/* (*=nano, Intentionally public workspaces for
Wikis astro, enviro, geno, bioeyes, etc for collaboration sites)
each of NDeRC’s STEM-area-focused collaborations
Special Project Wikis
wellhead.michianastem.org/sowastro.michianastem.org/astroimaging (two examples)
Middle School Water Source mapping and Astroimaging projects
MichianaSTEM Community Blog
erc.nd.edu/blogs a multi-site, multi-user blog for general interest subscription
Individual Member Blogs
erc.nd.edu/blogs/* (*=krueff, vgoss, tloughran, etc for fellows, management blogs)
Individual blogs for NDeRC Fellows, Teachers, Mgnt, open to other individuals in the MichianaSTEM community
Collaboration Blogs
erc.nd.edu/blogs/* (*=nano, astro, enviro, geno, bioeyes, gravitino, ndercadmin for collaboration-specific blogs)
Subscription units of common interest, where individual blogs are cross-posted; bloggers can post here directly as well
Twitter @michianastem notification of blog posts and other announcements (71 tweets since 1/6/11)
Facebook facebook.com/pages/MichianaSTEM/220519632914
to bring elements of STEM culture into informal / personal social networks
Flickr flickr.com/photos/nderc/ a bank of common images (~3600 uploaded to date) for convenient sharing across networks
NDeRC Blogs Table of Posts and Comments
Blogger Last Name
erc.nd.edu/blogs/BLOGURL (=jantonelli, etc)
Role Total Posts Approved Comments
Antonelli jantonelli Fellow 5 2Ballentine mballentine Teacher 3 1Beebe abeebe Teacher, Mgnt 32 21Behrens tbehrens HS Student 27 14Berry dberry Fellow 58 79Carr acarr Fellow 24 25Connaughton rconnaughton Fellow 4 2Crocker mcrocker Fellow 26 35Dolan mdolan2 Fellow 7 12Dzurisin jdzurisin Fellow 14 35Gensic jgensic Teacher 8 5Goss vgoss Fellow 47 16Loughran tloughran Managing Co-PI 131 71McNeeley mamcneely Teacher 27 10Mikels jmikels Fellow 13 5Mooney pmooney Project Coord 3 0Quardokus rquardok Fellow 30 70Raigoza araigoza Fellow 5 7
Raycroft fraycroft Fellow 3 1Ribaudo jribaudo Fellow 7 29Rodak crodak Fellow 61 106Rose lrose HS Teacher 18Rueff krueff Fellow 83 75Slabbekoorn aslabbek Fellow 27 39Ziegler jziegler Teacher 5 1TOTALS 668 661prior to this reporting year:
279 not recorded
Total this year (as of May 31, 2011) 389The NDeRC Blogosphere as of May 31, 2011
During this past year, 100 posts from these individual blogs were published in the MichianaSTEM Community Blog. This is NDeRC’s most general-audience blog, with 139 subscribers, about 100 of whom are K-12 teachers. Authors are invited and sometimes encouraged to cross-list postings from their individual or collaboration-specific blogs into this most common blog.
Individual NDeRC blog posts (n=668), 40% of which were also posted to the collaboration blogs.