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Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Thandeka K. Chapman '89
Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Thandeka K. Chapman '89
Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award
Dr. Thandeka K. Chapman is an Associate Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has conducted research on policy implementation in desegregated schools, urban small school reforms, teaching and learning in racially diverse classrooms, and evaluating Social Justice curricula. Her most recent publications are six edited volumes of the History of Multicultural Education co-edited with Carl A. Grant. She also co-edited a new book, The Practice of Freedom: Social Justice Pedagogy in the United States, to be published in February 2010. Other publications include: “Peddling Backwards: Reflections of Plessy …
Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Rebecca Willett '96
Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Rebecca Willett '96
Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award
Prof. Rebecca Willett is a prolific contributor to the field of electrical and computer engineering through teaching, cutting-edge research and publishing as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her teaching and research interests are focused on signal and image processing techniques and how these can be applied to help advance a variety of other fields, including medical imaging, astronomy, networks, and bioinformatics. As a testimony to the broad implications of her research, Prof. Willett is assisting the Department of Defense through her work on the Computer Science Study Panel, run by the …