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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Associate Applied Biology and
Biomedical Engineering Professor Kay C Dee has been named founding
director for the college's Center for the Practice and Scholarship of
Education, a faculty
initiative that strives to maintain a high quality of teaching and
learning on campus.
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Kay C Dee |
The two-year appointment, starting on July 1, will be half time
during the academic year and include one month of summer support after
July 1, 2007, and two months support during the summer of 2008,
according to Art Western, vice president of academic affairs and dean of
the faculty.
As director, Dee will serve as an advocate for quality teaching and
learning; develop short- and long-term plans for the center’ structure,
leadership and activities; seek financial resources to support the
center; and assist in planning and conducting pedagogical research
projects.
Dee, a member of the Rose-Hulman faculty since 2004, is familiar with
effective teaching and learning. She was a teaching fellow of the
National Effective Teaching Institute in 2003, was named Louisiana's
Professor of the Year in 2002 by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, received Tulane University's Inspirational
Undergraduate Professor Award in 2001, and four times was named Tulane's
Biomedical Engineering Teacher of the Year. She specializes in cell and
tissue engineering, biomaterials, biomaterial interactions involving
tissue and engineering education.
A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Carnegie Mellon
University, Dee taught at Tulane from 1997 to 2004 and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute from 1992-1997. She also served as senior fellow
and program facilitator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from
1993-1996.
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