Faculty, students present poster in Washington

A team of four TWU faculty and students participated in a Science Edu­ca­tion for New Civic Engagements and Respon­si­bil­ities poster session April 15 on Capitol Hill. The poster session was the culminating event of the Na­tion­al Center for Civic En­gage­ment and SENCER’s Wash­ington Sym­po­sium.

Dr. Richard Sheardy, professor and chairman of TWU’s chemistry and physics department; Cynthia Maguire, senior lecturer in chemistry; and Kerise Owens, a senior interdisciplinary studies major, and Angelia Spurgin, a master of arts in teaching, presented a poster on a new SENCER course at TWU. The course, “Intro­duc­tion to Envi­ron­mental Chemistry,” is designed to enable students to understand environmental issues in light of new knowledge about related chemical principles.

SENCER is a faculty development and science education re­form program supported by the National Science Foundation. The symposium is a gathering of educators, administrators and students who discuss the next steps in improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

University’s SIFE team headed to nationals

The TWU Students in Free Enterprise team will compete at the SIFE USA National Expo­sition May 13-15 in Chicago following the team’s win at the regional competition. The TWU team’s regional win March 17 was its sixth in the past nine years.

Team members are Brandon Bays of Ponder, Claudia Calderon of Plano, Rosemarie DeMars of Whitesboro, Mark Flores of Den­ton, Annamarie Herrera and Cur­tasia Lenton of Fort Worth, Inna Morvanyuk of Svetlovodsk, Ukraine, Meghan Hunter of Lewisville and Sheryl Jackson of La Jolla, Calif.

The team’s outreach projects included assisting small-business owners, teaching senior citizens about fraud awareness, working with high school students on issues of ethics and financial responsibility, and teaching college students about having a healthy diet on a budget.

The group’s adviser is Sherrie Taylor, a School of Management instructor.