Digital Poster Session: Faculty Presentations
Integration of 3D Visualization In Lighting Design Education, Station 1
Jorge Arroyo, Assistant Professor of Lighting Design, College of Fine Arts
Jorge is an Assistant Professor of Lighting Design and the Co-Chair of the Design, Production, and Management Program in the College of Fine Arts. He has almost 30 years of experience in theater, dance, concerts, corporate events, opera, and television. His work has been seen at venues such as The Alley Theatre, The Huntington, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Boston Lyric Opera, The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Baltimore Center Stage, The Arden, and others. He has created designs for over 50 shows at both the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center for artists such as Alicia Keys, Gabriel Iglesias, the Wayans Brothers, the Chieftains, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Paquito D'Rivera, Phoebe Snow, Stanley Jordan, Kenny Garrett, Jackie Mason, and others. He has also worked with choreographer Stacey Tookey, threetime Emmy nominee for her choreography on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, on her production of Moments Defined in both New York and California. Jorge received his MFA from New York University."
Lessons Learned: Creating a Foundation for a Successful Standardized Patient Program, Station 2
Samantha Brown, Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr. Samantha Brown is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and is the Director of Clinical Simulation for Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. She is an ABPTS board-certified geriatric clinical specialist with over 30 years of clinical experience. Her clinical focus is on older adults with cardiac, pulmonary, and complex medical diagnoses. Dr. Brown teaches cardiopulmonary content in the DPT curriculum and continues clinical care at Newton Wellesley Hospital in the outpatient Cardiac Rehab program. She has extensive experience in the use of simulation within physical therapy and health care professions education and has served on the American Council for Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) Simulation in Physical Therapy Education executive board. As part of this board, she has been involved in the development of a simulation training course for rehabilitation professionals (SITReP) and the development of an online simulation library for ACAPT. In her role as Director of Clinical Simulation for Sargent, Dr. Brown provides education and support to Sargent faculty around best practice in simulation and is working to develop a standardized patient program to enhance the simulation program.
The Bridge Builders Program, Station 3
Liliane Dusewoir, Master Lecturer of Romance Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in translation & interpretation in Belgium, Liliane specialized in the field of Linguistics and Foreign Language Acquisition and pursued her graduate studies in Anthropology as a Fulbright scholar at Boston University. In the U.S., Liliane has taught at Brown University and at the College of the Holy Cross. Liliane joined Boston University in 2006 and is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Romance Studies. She is the founder of BU’s French club, the Association Francophone of BU. She serves as the Faculty co-advisor for the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism. She has embarked on several Alternative Spring Break volunteer missions with the BU Center for Community Service.
Sheila Cordner, Senior Lecturer of Humanities, College of General Studies
Sheila Cordner is the author of Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation (Routledge 2016) in addition to scholarly articles and a children’s book introducing young readers to a diverse range of classic authors. She is Senior Lecturer of Humanities at the College of General Studies, and also teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and in Kilachand Honors College.
Victoria Perrone, Academy Instructor of Chemistry, BU Academy
Victoria Perrone earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Secondary Education from Emmanuel College in 2014. She earned her Master’s in Education Leadership and Policy at BU in May of 2018, and her MBA specializing in Leadership and Organizational Transformation from BU’s Questrom School of Business in 2021. Before joining BUA, she taught chemistry at Shrewsbury Senior High School. In addition to teaching chemistry, Victoria oversees all BUA student clubs and events, and develops connections and programming with BU departments across campus.
Joan Salge-Blake, Clinical Professor of Nutrition, Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr. Joan Salge Blake EdD, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, is a clinical professor at Boston University (BU), speaker and journalist, and the host of Spot On!, the award-winning, nutrition, health, and wellness podcast. She is also the author of the college textbook, Nutrition &You, Pearson Education (2023). She has received the Media Excellence Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as she has conducted over 3,000 media interviews. She has also been awarded the prestigious Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching Award from the University twice. She has provided over 135 presentations on the topic of nutrition and health to the public and her colleagues.
Experiments with an LLM-based Homework Tutor, Station 4
Kevin Gold, Associate Professor of the Practice of Computing & Data Sciences, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
Kevin Gold is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University. His current research focuses on the use of large language models in education. He is also the Preceptor of Teaching in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, helping the development of teaching in the unit. He previously worked at Google and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 2008, and his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 2001.
Generative AI, Station 5
Reza Rawassizadeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Metropolitan College
Reza Rawassizadeh has a PhD in computer science from the University of Vienna, Austria. He serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Metropolitan College. His research primarily focuses on ubiquitous technologies, which include wearables, mobile devices, and robots, with a significant emphasis on designing resource-efficient machine learning algorithms, as well as compressed neural network models for battery-powered devices.
A Better Way to Teach Public Relations Monitoring and Evaluation, Station 6
Amy Shanler, Associate Chair of Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations; Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Relations; and Co-Director of PRLab, College of Communication
Amy Shanler has 25 years of experience managing communications activities for multiple organizations and industries, including retail, technology, business, health care, and entertainment. Amy co-directs the award-winning PRLab, the nation’s longest-running, student-led public relations agency, named “Best Training/Education Program” by PR News’s Agency Elite awards. In addition, Amy teaches courses on principles of public relations, crisis communications, and media relations. Previously, Amy was director of public and media relations for Royal Philips in North America, director of public and community relations for the office products giant Staples, and a senior account manager for a high-technology public relations subsidiary of FleishmanHillard. In 2023, Amy was named a Top Educator in public relations by PR News, and her work has won awards from the Public Relations Society of America, PR Club of New England, and SABRE. Amy holds a master's degree in public relations, a bachelor's degree in communication, and a bachelor's degree in psychology all from Boston University.
The Making of the Juneberry Review, Station 7
Chris Walsh, Associate Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences
Chris Walsh is Associate Professor of English at BU, where he also earned his PhD in American Studies and, from 2002 to 2021, served as a teacher and administrator in the CAS Writing Program. He has also taught as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and, last semester, at Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Some of his classes use an intellectually intensive role-playing game known as Reacting to the Past, and many of them ask students to collaborate with him in selecting texts to read, an approach he calls the “blank syllabus.” His interests in the intersection of literature, history, and ethics informed his book Cowardice: A Brief History, and these interests continue to inform his scholarship and teaching.