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8-27-09
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College welcomes four new faculty members, according to an announcement by Dr. Tom Griffiths, provost and dean of the College. Lycoming’s 2009 fall semester begins Monday, Aug. 31.
The new faculty members include:
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Rachel Hickoff-Cresko is an assistant professor of education. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Kutztown University and then taught reading, mathematics and various other subjects in Pennsylvania for 11 years at school districts in Reading, Kutztown, Allentown and Williamsport. In 2000, Hickoff-Cresko studied and developed curricula in Ghana, West Africa, under the auspices of a Fulbright-Hays scholarship. In 2002, she earned a master of education degree from the Universidad del Turabo in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. She earned an Ed.D. at Widener University in 2008. Hickoff-Cresko has published the “Lesson Plan Development Component” of the Pennsylvania Department of Education English Language Learner Resource Kit, as well as the Ghana West Africa Resource Guide for Teachers and Educators. |
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Marisa Macy is an assistant professor of education. She most recently taught for three years in the College of Education at Penn State University as an assistant professor of special education. Prior to that, Macy spent a year supported by a Mary E. Switzer Merit Fellowship while working at the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a master’s and Ph.D., both in special education, from the University of Oregon. Macy worked for four years as a special education teacher at the White River School District in Buckley, Wash. She has researched and written extensively on such subjects as early intervention, curriculum-based assessment, life care planning and evaluation, and early childhood special education pre-service programs, among many other topics in special education. |
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Todd Morris is a visiting assistant professor of chemistry for the 2009-10 academic year. He most recently worked at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., where he has been conducting postdoctoral research using molecules called “lectins” to correctly attach sugars to proteins in the process of manufacturing biopharmaceutical drugs. Morris earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and a doctoral degree in analytical chemistry at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Immediately following completion of his Ph.D., he taught briefly as a full time faculty member at Adams State College in Colorado.
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Kerry Richmond is an assistant professor of criminal justice/criminology. She completed a Ph.D. in criminal justice/criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park, in May 2009. Her dissertation was titled “Factories with Fences: The Effect of Prison Industries on Female Inmates.” Prior to that, Richmond completed a dissertation-based master’s degree at Central Connecticut State University, producing a thesis titled “Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Community Programming on Successful Reintegration.” She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and sociology at Boston College. Richmond has worked as a case developer for the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives in Baltimore, Md. In this capacity, she wrote memorandums on sentencing and parole hearings, and she created alternative sentencing or parole plan recommendations for submission to a court or parole board. She also worked briefly as an intern in the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. |
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