MSP Annual Conference and NSF Site Visit
Hosted by Tuskegee University Math and Science Partnership (MSP):
A NanoBio Science Partnership for the Alabama Black Belt Region
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center
201 Tallapoosa Street ~ Montgomery AL 36104
September 26-27, 2014
Friday September 26, 2014
11:00-12:00 Registration
External Advisory Board Meeting
NSF Site Visit Team Meeting
MSP Teacher Assessments
Poster Session (General Assembly)
Concourse Center
Riverview 3 – 2nd FL
Montgomery 4 - 2nd FL
Montgomery 1 – 2nd FL
Concourse Center
12:00 – 1:00 Luncheon
Alabama CDE
1:15 – 1:45 Greetings & Opening Remarks
Jacqueline Brooks, Superintendent, Macon County Schools
Steven Ricks, Director, AMSTI
Alabama B
1:45 – 2:15
Alabama B
Project Overview
Elizabeth VanderPutten, MSP Program Officer, National Science
Foundation
Shaik Jeelani, Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs,
Tuskegee University
2:15 – 2:45
A Typical MSP Course Module
Alabama B
Michael Curry, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Tuskegee University
Alicia Curry, Assistant Professor of Education, Tuskegee University
2:45 – 3:15
3-D Module Simulations
Alabama B
Scott Wehby, Consultant
Johnny Moss, Director of Marketing & College Relations, Wallace Community
College – Selma
3:15 – 3:30
3:30-4:00
Break
Teacher Training and Feedback
Foyer Alabama AB
Alabama B
Michele Williams, Interim Executive Director, SECME, Inc.
4:00-4:45
Program Evaluation and Research Overview
David Shannon, Evaluation Consultant, Professor of Educational Foundations,
Leadership, & Technology, Auburn University
Melody Russell, Associate Professor of Secondary Science Education, Auburn
University
Alabama B
4:45 – 5:00
Break
Foyer Alabama AB
5:00- 6:30
Dinner & Remarks
Brian Johnson, President, Tuskegee University
Alabama CDE
6:30-7:30
External Advisory Board Meeting
NSF Site Visit Team Meeting
Riverview 2 – 2nd FL
Montgomery 4 – 2nd FL
Saturday 27, 2014
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
Breakfast
Concourse Center
Alabama CDE
9:00 – 9:15
Greetings & Opening Remarks
Ella Bell, Member, Alabama State Board of Education District 5
Thomas Bice, State Superintendent, Alabama Department of Education
Alabama CDE
9:15 - 10:00
Address
Lonnie Johnson, President & CEO, Excellatron
10: 00-12:00 Breakout Sessions (Module Presentations)
Session A: “Engineering a Better World from the Nanoscale Up”
Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, University of WisconsinMadison | MR SEC
Session B: “Nano Interactions”
Katherine Spoth, and Ben MacMurray Cornell University
MR SEC
Session C: “Convection: Go With the Flow”
Isis McReynolds, Tuskegee Public School
Ruth Liddell and Shirley Scarbrough, Alabama State
University
Session D: “Alternative Energy Conversion: Photo Effect of Titanium
Dioxide in Aqueous Solution and the Electrical Energy
Production Using Solar Energy”
Shanlin Pan and Karen Boykin, The University of Alabama
Alabama CDE
Alabama CDE
Riverview 3 – 2nd FL
Riverview 4 – 2nd FL
Riverview 5 – 2nd FL
Riverview 6 – 2nd FL
Session E: “Self-Assembly in a Box”
Curtis Shannon, Auburn University
Riverview 7 – 2nd FL
Session F: “Wanted: Dead or Alive”
Melissa Reeves, Chastity Bradford, Gerald Griffin,
Tuskegee University
Riverview 8 – 2nd FL
Poster Session (General Assembly)
Riverview 1 & Lobby –
2nd FL
External Advisory Board Meeting with MSP Leadership team
NSF Site Visit Team Meeting with MSP Leadership team
12:30 – 1:30 Luncheon Address
“The Neural Networks & Visual Schema”
Matthew Peterson, Co-founder, CEO, Senior Scientist Researcher,
MIND Research Institute
1:30 – 2:00
Closing & Remarks
Conference Evaluation
*To Be Confirmed
Riverview 2
Montgomery 4 - 2nd FL
Alabama CDE