LSC Faculty and Staff
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Elise West ejw3@cornell.edu Associate Director 420 CCC 254-8534 |
| Elise West earned her PhD and her Master of Science degree in educational psychology from Cornell University. She also earned a BS in biological sciences from Cornell. Elise became the Learning Strategies Center's academic associate director in 2005 and is responsible for supervising faculty who provide tutoring and supplemental courses. She also co-directs the planning and implementation of Cornell's Prefreshman Summer Program. Prior to joining the LSC, Elise was Assistant Director of Academic Affairs for Cornell's Division of Nutrition Sciences, where she initiated and implemented changes to the curriculum and the academic advising program. | |
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Patty Alessi pa31@cornell.edu Mathematics, Statistics 212 Malott 607-255-8637 |
| Patty Alessi earned a BA and MS in Mathematics Education at SUNY Brockport and continues doctoral studies at Syracuse University. In addition to being a senior lecturer, Patty supervises mathematics instruction in the Prefreshman Summer Program and coordinates the LSC Statistics Lab, which provides free tutoring for selected undergraduate statistics courses. Patty has also instituted online evaluation in the Prefreshman Summer Program and developed a new fall course, Math 100, Calculus Preparation. Prior to her employment at Cornell University in 1995, Patty taught mathematics at Ithaca College, SUNY Cortland, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Maui Community College. Patty has presented articles concerning alternative teaching methods at the University of Hawaii and the Heald College Instructor Training Workshop in California. Patty has conducted workshops in the ACE and Liberty Partnership Programs, Homework Helpline at CU and Industrial Electronics Training in New York State industries. Patty was the recipient of the Mathematics: Excellence in Teaching Award in December 2006. | |
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Albert Alexander awa2@cornell.edu Economics 420 CCC 607-255-3464 |
| Albert Alexander earned an MA from New York University and a BA from University of Illinois in economics and has taught economics as an adjunct instructor and an assistance professor at Ithaca College and at other colleges in the Ithaca, New York area for the last twenty-three years. He has been providing instruction for the supplemental economics courses, professional tutoring and program development for economics courses since he joined the LSC staff three years ago. | |
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Jen Bokaer-Smith jcb13@cornell.edu Lecturer, Study Skills 420 CCC 607-255-5844 |
| Jen Bokaer-Smith received a B.S. from U.C. Berkeley in Natural Resources in 1990, and a M.S. in Nutrition from Cornell University in 1997. She continued with pre-PhD. work for several years as a National Institutes of Health trainee before leaving research to teach. She holds New York State Teaching Certificates in general science and biology, and taught science at Ithaca High for 7 years. She is especially interested in issues of content area literacy and sustainability education, and has developed a sustainable agriculture education program at her family's farm. As a lecturer at the LSC, Jen teaches HE 100, coordinates the Reading Laboratory, and provides individual study strategy support to students. | |
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Michael Chen msc7@cornell.edu Study Skills Coordinator 421 CCC 607-255-0553 |
| Mike Chen has a BA in English from Yale and an MFA in creative writing from Cornell. Much more importantly, he has been helping Cornell students with their study skills since the turn of the century. He teaches HE100, a study skills course, as well as its summer equivalent, HE101, as part of the Prefreshman Study Program. He runs the LSC reading lab, where students work on their reading speed and comprehension, and consults one-on-one with students on their time management, note-taking, test preparation and other issues related to their studies. | |
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Darlene Evans dme27@cornell.edu Writing 174 Rockefeller 607-255-6349 |
| Darlene Evans earned her BS in English education from Indiana University , Bloomington, her MA in English with specialties in multicultural literature, critical theory, and critical literacy from Georgetown University, and her MA ABD in cultural anthropology with focus in gender theory and Native American studies from Southern Methodist University. Darlene joined the faculty of the Learning Strategies Center at Cornell University in 2003 after ten years at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught in the English Writing Program, the College of General Studies, and at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). At Penn's GSE Darlene both mentored student teachers trained in the Philadelphia public schools and taught Methods for Teachers of English. She also pioneered a service-learning course for the Writing Program that joined Penn freshman and local high school seniors. In addition to her work as writing consultant, Darlene has piloted a similar outreach course in Ithaca through the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. | |
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Lindsay Goodloe lg32@cornell.edu Biology G-24 Stimson 607-255-0974 |
| Lindsay Goodloe earned an AB in zoology from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. His thesis research concerned orientation mechanisms of homing pigeons. Prior to joining the LSC in 1988, Lindsay taught biology courses at SUNY at Binghamton, the University of Maryland University College (European Division), the University of Maine, and Ithaca College. Now a senior lecturer, Lindsay's responsibilities include teaching a '00' course supporting students enrolled in introductory biology for majors and assisting students taking general genetics. Since joining the LSC, he has co-authored study guides for several introductory biology textbooks and developed a laboratory exercise on the feeding behavior of slugs that is now widely used in secondary schools. | |
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Mark Jauquet maj29@cornell.edu Mathematics 420 CCC 607-255-8269 |
| Mark Jauquet earned an MA in Teaching (Mathematics) from Cornell University in 2004 and an Executive Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Buffalo in 1997. Mark has been a lecturer with the Learning Strategies Center since 2002, in which time Mark has specialized in teaching the weekly "00" support classes for the first year Calculus classes. His other responsibilities include developing the undergraduate course assistant training program and supervising undergraduate tutors. Prior to joining the Learning Strategies Center, Mark was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, Africa from 1991-1993 and most recently he co-founded a successful Internet startup company specializing in on-line auction software. | |
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Bob Lieberman rhl10@cornell.edu Physics B14 Rockefeller 607-255-7451 |
| Robert Lieberman is a Senior Lecturer in Physics. Recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, he has been running the LSC Physics Center since 1980. Prior to that he was a professor in Cornell’s College of Engineering and before that he held positions at a number of institutions as a professor of mathematics. A member of Cornell’s Class of '62, he completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute in New York City as part of their Accelerated Honors Program. He returned to graduate school at Cornell and received a Masters Degree in the field of Biophysics & Neurophysiology. In addition to his work in science, Robert Lieberman is a best-selling novelist with six published books including “The Last Boy” and “Baby.” He has made films for PBS and recently completed a feature film “Green Lights” (www.ithacamovies.com), which has been shown in theaters around the country. Mr. Lieberman has held Fulbright Lectureships to both the Philippines and the former Czechoslovakia. | |
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Luis Maas lfm22@cornell.edu Asst. Coordinator, Statistics 421 CCC 255-6284 |
| Luis Maas is native from Honduras were he earned a BS from the Pan American School of Agriculture, Zamorano. From 2001 to 2003 he attended the University of Arkansas obtaining a MS in Horticulture and molecular biology. In 2003 he joined the PhD program in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University. Luis joined the Learning Strategies Center's Statistics Lab as a tutor in 2004 and became assistant director in 2005. Luis is responsible for supervising tutors who provide support for students enrolled in a variety of introductory statistics courses. He also maintains the lab website. In addition, he is a TA for the Plant Genetic course and a volunteer for the Translation Services in Cornell Outreach Program. | |
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Allen MacNeill adm6@cornell.edu Biology G-24 Stimson 607-255-3357 |
| Allen MacNeill earned a BS in biology from Cornell in 1974 and an MA in science education from Cornell in 1977, and has taught the support course for introductory biology at Cornell University since 1976. As a senior lecturer for the Learning Strategies Center, Allen works with students taking both majors and non-majors introductory biology. In addition, he organizes and carries out in-service training for teaching assistants in biology and related fields. Allen also teaches evolution for the Cornell Summer Session, and has taught the introductory evolution course for non-majors at Cornell. He has served as a Faculty Fellow at Ecology House and as an honorary member and faculty advisor for the Cornell chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society. He has served on numerous advisory committees and editorial boards at Cornell and in the Ithaca community. | |
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Mircea Pitici mip7@cornell.edu Mathematics Malott 255- |
| Mircea Pitici is working toward his PhD in Mathematics Education at Cornell University. He earned his BS in Mathematics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He has taught various mathematics courses at Cornell University, Wells College, and Ithaca College and has participated in the training of the graduate teaching assistants in mathematics at Cornell. Mircea joined the LSC in Spring 2008 and teaches support classes for Math 106. His research interests include current issues in undergraduate mathematics, the history of mathematics education in America, and the historical interconnections between land surveying techniques and the development of mathematics education in America. | |
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Jason Pontrello jkp49@cornell.edu Chemistry 154 Baker 607-255-2753 |
| Jason Pontrello earned his B.S. in chemistry and cellular and molecular biology from the University of Michigan in 1998. He worked in medicinal chemistry at Pfizer before attending graduate school. He earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. Then, Jason instructed numerous courses as a Professor in the SUNY system. His research interests include integration of team learning strategies into course structures, future faculty development programs, and molecular synthesis to understand and control protein/protein interactions. Jason joined the LSC staff in the Fall of 2007 and is the instructor of Chemistry 007-008. | |
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Jane Walcott jtw8@cornell.edu Chemistry 156 Baker Lab 607-255-4529 |
| Jane Walcott earned a BA in Biology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, an MA in Neurobiology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and teaching certification from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. Her professional experiences include research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin, working with the ACTION Program for Great Lakes Intertribal Council and teaching high school biology and chemistry. Before joining the LSC as a lecturer in Chemistry in 2000, she was on the Advisory Board of the Alternative Community School in Ithaca, a research support specialist in Entomology and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell. In 1999 she was a recipient of the Clark Teaching Award. | |