Opened Practices Users from NC

6421 Sykes Gen Trail

I have been a radiographer since 1972 and in my professional career; I have spent roughly half that time in clinical practice and half in education. My graduate degree from New York University is a master of arts in Education Communication & Technology. In my current role at NC, I teach in the radiography certificate program and I am the lab director for the energized radiology labs on campus. I believe that the learners that I work with must complete their educational experience with strong concepts in their chosen field, but just as importantly, with the skills to maintain those concepts by learning how they learn. This, more than anything, will allow them to be effective practitioners who will be able to accommodate the rapidly changing technological advances in image sciences.

P.O. Box 7264 Reynolda Station

My specialties are scenic design and lighting for theatre and dance. I have taught and worked on productions at Wake Forest University for more than 25 years. I am also extremely interested in the uses of technology in higher education and have chaired the Wake ForestTechnology. Committee on Information I also design professionally and have worked on productions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, and Belfast, among others. My primary teaching assignments are in design and production for theatre and dance, so the course I am describing here represents a new direction in my work.

I received my B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania and my M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. After receiving my graduate degree I moved to Wake Forest University where I have worked on numerous productions, including King Lear, Angels in America, The Cherry Orchard, Wings, The Threepenny Opera, and Sonnets for an Old Century. I am a founding member of The Virtual Theatre Project.I won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for best digital imagery design for the world premiere of the play Belfast Blues at The Black Dahlia and was nominated for LA Ovation Awards for Scenic and Lighting Design for the Rubicon Theatre production of this play. I specialize in developing new works that integrate technology into performance. For example, as lighting designer for the Alban Elved Dance Company, I collaborated on projects using infrared cameras, multiple projections, laser triggered MiDi, computed fractals, and aerial dance. I also actively trade stocks and options and have taken many advanced courses in this subject. This interest directly inspired me to create the course described in this application.