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Instructor, Family and Consumer Sciences, Zayed University (1999-2002)
Instructor, Human Development and Family Sciences (2002-2008)
Assistant Professor, Adult Basic Education Garrett Heyns Education Center, Centralia Community College

725 Front St.
Suite 206

I am an administrator and teacher, having lived and worked in Santa Cruz, California since 1986. I have worked as a Technology Coordinator at the county and regional level, and have become more and more convinced that community building and learning using electronic tools is a future for K-12 education. My work now, managing the Community Learning Environment (CLE) for the New Teacher Center, is helping me focus my interest in supporting educational leaders, new teachers and new administrators while modeling effective use of new tools in educational settings for the benefit of students and the community at large.

327 Moulton Hall

In addition to her role in RCET, Karen Swan is also a faculty member in the Instructional Technology Program in the College and Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services. Dr. Swan's research has been focused in the general area of media and learning on which she has published and presented nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on online learning, mobile computing and on student learning in ubiquitous computing environments.

In addition to her role in RCET, Karen Swan is also a faculty member in the Instructional Technology Program in the College and Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services. Dr. Swan's research has been focused in the general area of media and learning on which she has published and presented nationally and internationally. Her current research focuses on online learning, mobile computing and on student learning in ubiquitous computing environments. Dr. Swan has authored several hypermedia programs including Set on Freedom: The American Civil Rights Movement 1953-1968, and co-edited two books, Social Learning from Broadcast Television and Ubiquitous Computing in Education: Invisible Technology, Visible Impact, as well as a DVD ROM on the latter topic. She served as a project director on several large scale grants including work for the NYC Board of Education, the US Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is currently principle investigator for an NSF materials development grant focused on middle school data literacy. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Sloan Consortium on Asynchronous Learning Networks, the Special Issues Editor for the Journal of Educational Computing Research, and Editor of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology. Dr. Swan received the 2006 Sloan-C award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Online Learning by an Individual.

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Vice Provost for Instruction and Director: Ken Bain (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1976), Professor of History, has been the founding director of four major teaching and learning centers: the Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University, the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, and the Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University. His recently-published book What the Best College Teachers Do. (Harvard University Press, 2004) won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society, and has been one of the top selling books on higher education.

Vice Provost for Instruction and Director: Ken Bain (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1976), Professor of History, has been the founding director of four major teaching and learning centers: the Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University, the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, and the Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University. He came to Montclair in 2006. He was at NYU from 2001 to 2006, at Northwestern as director of the center and professor of history from 1992 to 2001, and director and member of the history faculty at Vanderbilt from 1986 to 1992. In the 1970's and early 80's he was Professor of History at the University of Texas--Pan American, where he also served as director of that school's University Honors College and as founding director of the History Teaching Center, a pioneering program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities to promote greater collaboration between history teachers on the secondary level and university and college research historians. From 1984 to 1986, he served as director of the National History Teaching Center, which had a similar mission on the national level.

His historical scholarship centers on the history of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East (principal works include The March to Zion: United States Policy and the Founding of Israel, 1980, 2000), but he has long taken an interest in teaching and learning issues and in recent years has contributed to the scholarship in that area. Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning and for a fifteen-year study of what the best educators do, he has been invited in recent years to present workshops or lectures at over two hundred and fifty universities and events--in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. His learning research has concentrated on a wide range of issues, including deep and sustained learning and the creation of natural critical learning environments.

His recently-published book What the Best College Teachers Do. (Harvard University Press, 2004) won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society, and has been one of the top selling books on higher education. It has been translated into eight languages. He has won four major teaching awards, including a teacher-of-the-year award, faculty nomination for the Minnie Piper Foundation Award for outstanding college teacher in Texas in 1980 and 1981, and Honors Professor of the Year Awards in 1985 and 1986. A 1990 national publication named him one of the best teachers in the United States.

He has received awards from the Harry S Truman Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the International Studies Association, among others. He is currently completing his third book on U.S. relations with the Middle East (The Last Journey Home: Franklin Roosevelt and the Middle East).

1833 West Southern Avenue

Currently, Paul A. Elsner directs the National Center for the Future of the Community College. Elsner served as Chancellor of the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona from 1977 until 1999. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1964 and graduated from Harvard’s Institute for Educational Management. Throughout his career as professor and administrator, Elsner served in various capacities for organizations such as Educational Testing Service, American Association of Community Colleges, American Council on International Intercultural Education, League for Innovation, and Campus Compact.

The Paul A. Elsner Library and High Technology Complex was dedicated to ex-Chancellor Paul A. Elsner, who during his 22-year tenure as leader of one of the largest school districts in the nation, maintained a strong dedication to instructional technology and the use of information technology to equalize education. Now on early retirement, Elsner is directing the National Center for the Future of the Community College.

Paul A. Elsner served as Chancellor of the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona from 1977 until 1999. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1964 and graduated from Harvard’s Institute for Educational Management. Throughout his career as professor and administrator, Elsner served in various capacities for organizations such as Educational Testing Service, American Association of Community Colleges, American Council on International Intercultural Education, League for Innovation, and Campus Compact.

Among his many awards are the Anderson Medal for co-founding “The Think Tank,” the AACC Community Colleges’ Leadership Award, and the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change Magazine named him as one of the most influential college leaders of our time. His publications include articles, books, and even a morality play on the future of higher education.

His current efforts to advance the cause of education have led him to speaking engagements on six continents. In his retirement, he is founder and president of the Sedona Conferences and Conversations, Paul Elsner and Associates, and Los Vientos, Inc.—organizations dedicated to worldwide education.

2228 LBME
1101 Beal Avenue

Aileen Huang-Saad is a lecturer at the University of Michigan in the Biomedical Engineering Department. She is responsible for teaching a graduate level design class and a graduate Ethics and Enterprise course.

710 N. College Ave.

Born in Mexico City, Mexico. BS in Mathematics from the Autonomous Metropolitan University. MS in Mathematics and Ph.D in Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University. Postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics of the University of Southern California 2003-2006.
Research Associate at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine 2006 to date. Adjunct Faculty at the School of Mathematical Sciences - Claremont Graduate University 2003- present. I taught for 3 years while I was a postdoctoral fellow at USC. Then from Mexico I have been teaching from outside the US as part of the distance learning initiative. Fall 2008 will be my 6th year teaching and the 3rd one online.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Computational Statistics
• Microarray data analysis: cDNA microarrays, Affymetrix arrays
- Background correction methods,
- normalization approaches
• Probabilistic modeling of genetic regulatory networks,
• State-Space modeling of time series,
• Computer intensive methods in statistics and probability.

PUBLICATIONS

Rangel, C., Wild, D. L. Falciani, F., Ghahramani, Z., and Gaiba, A. (2001) “Modeling biological responses using gene expression profiling and linear dynamical systems.” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Systems Biology. Madison, WI: OmniPress, pp 248-256.

Dubey, A., Hwang, S., Rangel, C., Rasmussen, C.E., Ghahramani, Z. and Wild, D.L. “Clustering protein sequence and structure space with infinite Gaussian mixture models.” Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing 2004. Ed. R.B. Altman, A.K. Dunker, L. Hunter and T.E. Klein. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 399-410 (2004).

Rangel, C., Angus, J., Ghahramani, Z., Lioumi, M., Sotheran, E., A., Gaiba, A.,.Wild, D.L. and Falciani, F. “Modeling T-cell activation using gene expression profiling and state space models.” Bioinformatics (2004), 20(9):1361-1372.

Beal, M.J., Falciani, F., Ghahramani, Z., Rangel C. and Wild, D.L. “A Bayesian approach to reconstructing genetic regulatory networks with hidden factors.” Bioinformatics, 21: 349-356 (2005).

Claremont Graduate University Mathematics Clinic Reports

"Methods and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Geometric Convergence," Okten G., Park Jeho, Rangel C., Claremont Research Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences (CRIAMS) Technical Report LANL-01001 Chapter 5, Los Alamos National Laboratory, January 2001

"Digital Filter Design," Cumberbatch E. Bhan A., Rangel C.- Claremont Graduate University Mathematics Clinic, Momentum Data Systems, Technical Report, June 2000.

"Enhancement to the Site Availability Model (SAM) for Satellite Navigation System Availability Modeling," Angus J., Lee S., Rangel C. and Mukhopadhyay S. - Claremont Graduate University Mathematics Clinic Reports Hughes / Raytheon Systems Company, Fall 97 - Spring 98

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Inferring Transcriptional Networks using Prior Biological Knowledge and Constrained State Space Models" Wild D., Angus J.E., Beal M., Li J., Rangel C. chapter in Learning and Inference in Computational Systems Biology by Neil D. Lawrence, Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti. The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Modeling genetic regulatory networks using gene expression profiling and state space models," C. Rangel, J. Angus, Z. Ghahramani, and D. Wild, chapter in Applications of Probabilistic Modeling in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics, D. Husmeier, S. Roberts, and R. Dybowski, editors, Springer Verlag, 2005.

INVITED TALKS

Matilde Representación de Matemáticas Aplicadas – XVI Semana de Matemáticas Aplicadas; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Septiembre 2006. “Aplicaciones Matemáticas en la Medicna Genómica”

Seminar for Statistics - ETH Federal Institute of Technology; Zurich, Switzerland; April 21, 2005. “Applicability of Linear Dynamical Systems to Genetic Regulatory Network Inference”

Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, February 28, 2005.
"Using microarray gene expression data to infer genetic regulatory networks: a Linear Dynamical Systems Approach”

Complex Stochastic Systems in Biology and Medicine workshop; Munich, Germany October 7-8, 2004. “Linear Dynamical Systems Modeling of Genetic Regulatory Networks.”

Retreat of the Joint Ph.D. Program in Computational Science Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University, Temecula CA. November 2002. “Some Computational Aspects of Linear Dynamical Systems in their Use in Modeling Microarray Gene Expression Data,”

Gene Regulatory Network Workshop, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont CA. June 2002. “Modeling Biological Responses using Gene Expression Profiling and Linear Dynamical Systems.”

11212 Readvill Lane

I have been teaching at history at the college level since 1992. I moved into teaching using technology in the late 1990s when I discovered high speed internet. Prior to utilizing course management software such as Blackboard and Sakai, I taught myself how to build webpages and posted information on open access websites. I am currently the lone representative in my department who offers online courses. Along with teaching the online surveys of US history to freshman, I teach a methods course for pre-service social studies teachers and I coordinate professional development workshops for public school teachers.

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Carol Morgaine has been involved in preparing undergraduate and graduate students to work, professionally, with children, youth and families for over thirty years.

Carol Morgaine has been involved in preparing undergraduate and graduate students to work, professionally, with children, youth and families for over thirty years. Having come up through the ranks as an early childhood and parent educator, her interests have gradually focused more on the professionals working with children and families than on the children and families themselves. She has been at Portland State University (PSU) since 1995. Her interest and involvement in the use of portfolios as a means of assessing student learning emerged after having taught a Capstone class and then creating a more focused, structured portfolio system for the CFS Program. Known as the only undergraduate major at PSU that uses a portfolio system to assess students’ learning, the CFS Professional Portfolio facilitates the development of critical thinking, professional writing skills, and integration of learning. Carol has also lived and taught in Kenya, at Kenyatta University, and is actively involved in conducting faculty-led Study Abroad programs for PSU students. Carol has an undergraduate degree in Home Economics: Child and Family Studies/Early Childhood Education, a master’s degree in Education: Early Childhood and Parent Education, and a Ph.D. in Education with emphasis in Women’s and Family Studies. She is a Professor and has served as Program Director for Child and Family Studies since 2001.