2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology [biography]

   Dr. Carter-Johnson is responsible for research and evaluation of several undergraduate education initiatives at MIT in her role as a Postdoctoral Associate for Educational Research in the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. She completed her PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in evaluation and analytical methods from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. As a result of years of academic and research support from agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Department of Education, she is also repeatedly invited to provide funding, proposal, and application preparation training for undergraduate and graduate students.

2. Dr. Patricia Ordóñez University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras [biography]

   Patricia Ordóñez is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras since the Fall of 2012. She received her BA in Hispanic and Italian Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She received her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research centers on using visualization and data mining (visual analytics) to improve the state of medicine and healthcare. She is also interested in developing interfaces with universal access to assist in the learning of programming languages. In 2007, she received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to complete her doctorate, which permitted her to pursue her interests in biomedical informatics in collaboration with medical professors at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2008, her paper, "Visualizing Multivariate Time Series Data to Detect Specific Medical Conditions", was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at AMIA 2008.

3. Dr. Renetta G. Tull University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) [biography]

   Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs at UMBC and Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP (alliance members: UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of Maryland College Park). She presents across the U.S. and Puerto Rico on topics ranging from graduate school recruitment, retention, and dissertation completion, to faculty development. She serves as a national coach and mentor for prospective and current graduate students at universities outside of Maryland through invited participation at STEM conferences such as GEM, NSBE, SACNAS, SHPE, and AISES. She is a former Board Member of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and currently serves as a Liaison for Institutional Collaboration in the Chancellor’s Office at the Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In addition to her affiliations in Maryland, she is a member of the “QoLT” faculty at Carnegie Mellon, and MIT MSRP advisor, and member of the MIT Deeper Engagement Working Group.

4. Dr. Miguel Alfonso Nino http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-506X University of Maryland, Baltimore County [biography]

   Miguel Alfonso Nino is a Panamanian entrepreneur, copywriter, certified translator, conference interpreter, public speaker, and Training & Development professional with more than 7 years of experience. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in International Business from Lindenwood University and a Certificate of Economic Studies from Universite de Caen, Basse Normandie in France. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's Degree in Instructional Systems Development at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is fluent in Spanish, English, and French. In 2005, he was selected by Special Olympics to participate as an international leader in the Global Youth Summit held in Nagano, Japan, where he joined other leaders around the world to discuss the importance of including people with intellectual disability. As a public speaker and trainer, he has facilitated seminars and workshops in a wide variety of topics, including cross-cultural training, professional development, simultaneous interpretation, and e-learning.

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