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Meet Our Team: Faculty Participating in
Content-Specific Faculty Development
Eugene (Gene) Dunnam
F. Gene Dunnam is a professor of physic and astronomy and the undergraduate
coordinator for the Physics department in the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences. His principal research areas are experimental
nuclear physics—particularly nuclear reactions/spectrosocopy
of astrophysical interest. Gene has had numerous jobs in the sciences
during his career. He has been a cotton gin manager, motor-fuel
chemist, food/nutrition lab technician, electronics technician,
radiochemistry laboratory assistant, physics instructor, physics
research fellow, technical consultant, physics department chairman,
college associate dean, and professor. Gene is also very interested
in education and works with preservice elementary education students
in the course: Our Phyical World: Physical Science for Elementary
Teachers. His personal webpage can be found at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~dunnam/.
Ruth McKoy Lowery
Ruth McKoy Lowery is an assistant professor in the School
of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. She teaches
courses in literacy, multicultural education, and classroom teacher
research. Dr. Lowery is co-chair of the Florida Reading Association
Children's Book Awards and is a member of the Middle level steering
committee for the National Council of Teachers of English.She is
the author of Immigrants in Children's Literature. (2000).
NY: Peter Lang.
Christina Overstreet
Christina (Chris) Overstreet is an instructor of German in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida and a
doctoral candidate in Foreign Language Education with a minor in
Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include classroom discourse,
intercultural language use, and CALL. Presently, she is investigating
“look-up behavior” of learners of German reading authentic
German texts online. Her work experience includes teaching and developing
programs for German at a High School and Community College, as well
as teaching German language and culture at the undergraduate level
at the University of Florida for the past twelve years. For the
past ten years she has also been directing or co-directing the Study
Abroad Program for the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
at the University of Florida.
This semester, Chris uses computer-based technology for the three
courses she teaches on the 1000, 2000, and 3000 level. Her goal
is to use technology as a tool to teach the foreign language in
the context of the target culture at any level.
Barbara Pace
Barbara Pace is an assistant professor in English Education in the
School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Before earning
her doctorate she designed educational software for writing instruction
and taught English at the middle school, high school, and college
levels. She has served as assistant editor of the English Journal
and associate editor of the Florida Reading Quarterly. Some of Dr.
Pace’s publications can be found in Contemporary Issues in
Technology and Teacher Education, English Journal, The English Report,
and WILLA.
Rose Pringle
Rose Pringle is an assistant professor in the School of Teaching
and Learning holds a Ph.D. in Science Education with emphasis on
science teacher preparation and curriculum and instruction. A recent
graduate, she has published articles on assessment and the integration
of technology in science methods courses. Her research interests
include the exploration of formative assessments, specifically self
and peer assessment as tools to foster continuous learning in science
classrooms and pedagogical issues in teaching and learning science
in elementary classrooms. In the PT3 project, she is investigating
possibilities of technology use to foster learning of science content
and as a worthwhile pedagogical tool.
Diane E. Strangis
Diane E. Strangis is an Assistant Professor in the Unified Early
Childhood Education PROTEACH program. She is a 1999 Ed D graduate
in early childhood special education from the University of Kentucky
where she also was employed for 12 years in the Early Childhood
Laboratory School. She was named as the Outstanding Doctoral Student
for 1998 by the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for
Exceptional Children. Her research interests include teacher education
and early childhood inclusion. She has published in Childhood Education,
the Journal of Early Childhood Education and Family Review, the
Journal of Early Intervention, and the Journal of Early Childhood
Teacher Education, Kaleidoscope, and Tips on Parenting. She serves
as the Third Party Evaluator for Alachua County Even Start, as a
member of the Child Study Team for Queen of Peace Academy, and as
a member of the School Readiness Subcommittee for the Alachua County
Readiness Coalition. In addition, she is national chair-elect for
the Regional Coordinators Committee of the Division of Early Childhood.
Marvel Townsend
Marvel Townsend is a lecturer in the Mathematics Department in the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.
She received her MAT from Duke University and taught high school
for three years. She also taught at Oklahoma State University, Santa
Fe Community College, and has taught at UF for 21 years. She has
worked on a SUCCEED project and a Carnegie Mellon project. She is
the coordinator of precalculus, MAC 1147 and trains the new teaching
assistants in the Math Department. In addition to large live lectures,
she has online lecture sections of MAC 1147 and has all sections
in WebCT. In addition, some sections take quizzes online. Her course
webpage is at http://www.math.ufl.edu/~townsend/mac1147.
Martin Vala
Martin Vala is a Professor of Chemistry and the Head of
the General Chemistry Program in the Department of Chemistry in
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests
involve experimental physical chemistry, particularly the photochemistry
and spectroscopy of molecular species of astrochemical interest.
He is also interested in chemical education and the use of web materials
to enhance learning in large General Chemistry courses. He has been
involved in a SUCCEED project and a Carnegie Mellon project.
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