Faculty Accomplishments

Omojola, B. 2023. “Tributes to Bode Omojola: Paradigms and Encounters in African Musicology.” MUSON Center, Lagos, Nigeria, July 22. Organized by Bode Omojola’s colleagues and former students. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/what-prof-akpabot-taught-me-prof-omojola/

Convened and directed a 3-day exploratory seminar titled “African Art Music: Composers, Performers, and Scholars in Dialogue.” It was hosted by Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2021 and featured participants from Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Featured in a BBC Documentary: Classical Commonwealth (Exploring the fusion of classical music with local traditions across the British Commonwealth, February 24, 2021). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sht9

Was a webinar guest speaker at Universität Bayreuth, Germany on January 14, 2021. His lecture was titled, Oper bewegt - Towards an African Operatic Voice.

 

Back, M., & Oulbeid, B. (October 2022). Examining instructional contexts and student beliefs in Arabic teacher recruitment. Second Language Research & Practice, 3(1).

Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a subaward from the National Science Foundation (NSF) via Michigan State University for Assessing Institutional Assets, Vulnerabilities, and Synergies using a STEM Mentoring Ecosystem Framework: A Multi-Institutional, Interdisciplinary Workshop. The grant runs for 15.5 months.

Audrey St. John, Heather Pon-Barry and Becky Wai-Ling Packard received a Microsoft Corporation grant for the project "Development of Core Modules as Curricular Assets for Tech Mentorship Initiative." The project is for 2.5 months. Combined award to Audrey St. John (Computer Science), Heather Pon-Barry (Computer Science) and Becky Packard (Psychology and Education).

Pon-Barry, H., St. John, A., Packard, B. W., &  Stephenson, C. (2017). Addressing the CS capacity challenge by improving undergraduate peer mentoring. ACM Inroads, 8(3), 43–47.

Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54–77.

Heather Pon-Barry, Audrey St. John, Becky Packard, Barbara Rotundo. Megas and Gigas Educate (MaGE): A Curricular Peer Mentoring Program. Poster in Proc. of 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, TN, 2016.