Faculty Highlights

• 
  Charlesworth Award

  Computer science professor Art Charlesworth was recongized with the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the field. 

• Kenneth White, GC'15, GC'16, appointed Highland Springs principal

  Kenneth White, GC’15, GC’16, has been named principal of Highland Springs High School in Henrico County Public Schools. White earned a M.Ed. in curriculum & instruction in 2015 and a post-master’s certificate in educational leadership & policy studies in 2016. 

• IS recognized as Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion

  Information Services has been recognized as a National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security in recognition of its commitment to creating a safer, more secure internet.

• George Fohl, GC'17, named Chesterfield County gifted coordinator

  George Fohl, GC’17, has been named Gifted Education Coordinator for Chesterfield County Public Schools. Fohl completed the post-master’s certificate in educational leadership & policy studies in December 2017.

• Peggy Boon, GC'17, named principal of Bishop Sullivan High School

  Peggy Boon, GC’17, has been named principal of Bishop Sullivan High School in Virginia Beach, Va. Prior to this appointment, Boon served as Dean of Faculty and Academics at Saint Gertrude High School in Richmond. She earned a M.Ed. in educational leadership & policy studies at SPCS.

• 
  Lowder Presentation

  Psychology professor Matthew Lowder was invited by the University of Maryland Linguistics department to give a colloquium talk on his recent research, "Prediction in the Processing of Repair Disfluencies."

• 
  Cassada named CLE director

  SPCS professor of education Kate Cassada, assistant chair of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, has been named director of the Center for Leadership in Education (CLE), following former director Tom Shields’ appointment as SPCS associate dean.

• 
  Pollock Articles

  In collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, chemistry professor Julie Pollock has published two articles on toll-like receptor signaling inhibition in inflammatory pathways; 1. Identification of Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors based on selective activation of hierarchically acting signaling proteins, in Science Signaling and 2. "Triaryl pyrazole Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors: Structure-activity relationships governing pan- and selective signaling inhibitors," in ChemMedChem.

• 
  Jackson named coordinator of leadership academy

  Dr. Dana Jackson has been named part-time coordinator of the Next Generation Leadership Academy (NGLA), a school leader training program of the University’s Center for Leadership in Education.

• 
  Johnson Article

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson published "Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling," in Organometallics.