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DAINA BRIEDIS is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University and Assistant Dean for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering. Dr. Briedis is involved in several areas of education research including student retention, curriculum redesign, and student motivation. She has been involved in NSF-funded research in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET, of ASEE, and of the AIChE.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

THEODORE D. CALDWELL, ASSISTANT DEAN-STUDENT INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

Contact Information
Michigan State University Cell: (517) 614-3528
Engineering Inclusion and Diversity Office: (517) 355-5156
College of Engineering Facsimile: (517) 355-2293
3424 Engineering Building E-mail: tc@egr.msu.edu
East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
http://www.egr.msu.edu

(a) Professional Preparation: Undergraduate
Michigan State University Advertising B.A. 1996

Professional Preparation: Graduate
Jones International University Adult Education – Higher Education Leadership and Administration M.Ed. 2011

(b) Appointments
2018-Present. Assistant Dean-Student Inclusion and Diversity, Engineering Inclusion and Diversity, College of Engineering, Michigan State University.
2008-2018. Director/Assistant to the Dean for Diversity, Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering, Michigan State University.
2007-2008. Assistant Director, Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering, Michigan State University.
2006-2007. Retention and Recruitment Coordinator, Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering, Michigan State University.
2005. Recruiter, Admissions Office, International Academy of Design and Technology.

(c-1) Five Closely Related Publications (out of >100 refereed publications)
None.

(c-2) Five Other Significant Publications
1. Caldwell, T.D., Foster, K., Lane, T., Caldwell, R.A., Vergara, C.E., and Sticklen, Jon. What Happens After a Summer Bridge Program: The DPO Scholars Program. Accepted for publication in ASEE 2011. Paper 1790.

Five Synergistic Activities
1. Serving as Co-Principal Investigator for MSU on National Science Foundation NSF 1619681; Michigan Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MI-LSAMP); under the direction of Martin Philbert, Herbert Winful, Edmund Tsang, Richard Ellis and Peter Bahr. Phase 3 of this grant is effective October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2022.

Collaborators and Other Affiliations
Collaborators and co-authors (last 4 years): Petty, C. (Mich. St. U.); Sticklen, J. (Mich. St. U.); Briedis, D. (Mich. St. U.); Shipman, R. (Mich. St. U.); Wolff, T. (Mich. St. U.); Foster, K. (Mich. St. U.); Thompson, L. (U. of Mich.); Thompkins, G. (Wayne St. Univ.); Tsang, E. (Western Mich. U.); Lane, T. (Mich. St. U.); Caldwell, R. (Mich. St. U.)

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Dr. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia is a professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the development of achievement motivation in educational settings and the interplay among motivation, emotions, and learning/engagement, especially in STEM fields.

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Emily A. Bovee is the Director of Educational Development and Assessment at the Marquette University School of Dentistry. She earned her bachelors in psychology from Arizona State, and earned her doctorate in educational psychology and educational technology from Michigan State. Her primary areas of research interest are student learning and persistence in higher education. Her current projects explore student motivation and success in STEM disciplines at the undergraduate and professional education levels.

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Graduate Student at Michigan State University pursuing a M.S. in Chemical Engineering. After graduating, I plan to pursue doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses are biology and education. After graduating I aspire to continue working with education programs and join a university as teaching faculty.

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Mark Urban-Lurain is retired as an Associate Professor and Associate Director for Engineering Education Research in the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University.

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Amalia (Krystal) Lira is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology at Michigan State University. She is interested in addressing STEM attrition among underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students using motivational frameworks.

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S. Patrick Walton is the Associate Chair and C. Robert and Kathryn M. Weir Endowed Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. He received his bachelors in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech, and then attended MIT where he received his masters and doctoral degrees. After a post-doc at Stanford University, he joined MSU in 2004 where his research is focused on the development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic technologies based upon the unique physical and chemical properties of nucleic acids. He is also engaged in studying engineering student persistence and success through the lens of motivation. He has been recognized for his accomplishments in both teaching and research, receiving the MSU Teacher-Scholar award, the College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award and being named an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellow and MSU's Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor of the Year.

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