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External Advisors

Dr. Christine Hailey

ADVANCE IT grant co-PI

Associate Dean, College of Engineering

Utah State University

Dr. Christine Hailey is an Associate Dean in the College of Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Her responsibilities within the College include supporting the research infrastructure, budget issues, assessment, and faculty development. She is Director of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, an NSF-funded Center for Learning and Teaching. She is a member of the ADVANCE-US team, an NSF-funded program to address issues that impact female faculty’s effectiveness and satisfaction in the four engineering and science colleges at Utah State. She also is a Co-PI on an NSF-funded project entitled “Learning Companions as Change Agents: Improving Girls’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Learning Math.”

Dr. Eve Riskin

ADVANCE IT CIC Director

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

University of Washington

Dr. Eve Riskin is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at University of Washington and has been on the faculty since 1990. Her research group is working in image and video compression. In collaboration with Professor Richard Ladner of Computer Science and Engineering and Jake Wobbrock of the Information School, they are compressing video of American Sign Language using H.264 in their MobileASL project. They are also conducting a field study with MobileASL in the Seattle area.

Provost Network > ADVANCE at WSU > Advisors and Evaluators

External Evaluators

Dr. Ronda Callister

Utah State University
Department of Management and Human Resources
PI NSF ADVANCE grant(2003-2006)

Dr. Ronda Roberts Callister is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Human Resources and recipient of the Vernon Maughan Buehler and Maree C. Buehler Endowed Professorship at Utah State University. She earned her doctorate at the University of Missouri. She was principal investigator on the $3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant at USU from 2003 to 2006. Dr. Callister teaches a variety of management courses, including International Management. In 2001, she was selected as the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Teacher of the Year at USU.

Dr. Heather Seitz

Johnson County Community College
Professor of Biology and Biotechnology
PI ADVANCE Partnership Grant

Dr. Heather Seitz is a Professor of Biology and Biotechnology at Johnson County Community College. She is also a PULSE Leadership Fellow in Midwest Great Plains Regional Network, and a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Bioscience Core Skills Institute.

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