FACULTY PURSUITS: March 2022

Sean Joyce (Associate Professor of Computer Science) attended the annual ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on March 2-5, 2022. The symposium "provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy." In addition to participating in numerous discussion, workshop, and panel sessions, the conference hosted plenary sessions with notable computer scientists, including programming language pioneer Dr. Barbara Liskov, computer science education researcher Dr. Barbara Ericson, and diversity advocate Dr. Shaundra Daily.

On March 15, 2022, Dr. Cindy Lepeley (Professor of Spanish) gave a presentation to 40 first-year students in the Physician Assistant program at the University of Toledo. The presentation focused on how healthcare providers can work effectively with interpreters in a way that supports the best practices for medical interpretation. 'Berg alum Rachel Ensman was among the students attending the session

Drs. Laura Johnson and Nate Manning (NCWQR) and Dr. Doug Kane (Assistant Professor of Ecology, NCWQR) participated in the State of Lake Erie meeting this week in Cleveland in a variety of ways.

Doug co-chaired a session titled Building a Lake Erie Monitoring Program to Inform Biological Condition, where he presented a talk titled CLEVELAND ROCKS(alt): Increases in Cuyahoga River Chloride Concentrations during the last 4 Decades with Nate and Laura as co-authors. Nate also presented in this session with a talk titled Nitrogen Loading Trends for Several Lake Erie Tributaries at Multiple Temporal Scale with Laura as a co-author. Heidelberg alumna and researcher at Buffalo State College Susie Daniel also presented in this session a talk titled Challenges to DNA Barcoding: An Ecologist's Perspective.

Kane was also co-author on a talk presented by a Cornell University graduate student titled Using Zooplankton to Track Ecosystem Condition in Lake Erie. Finally, Laura co-chaired a session on Designing and Evaluating Wetlands to Optimize Environmental and Ecological Benefits and was a co-author on several other talks given at the conference.

For more information about the conference and the conference host, International Association for Great Lakes Research, please visit https://iaglr.org/sol/sole22/.