people
Current people involved in the Engage program:
FACULTY ADVISORY GROUP
Steve Ackerman, Ph.D.
Prof.
Steven Ackerman joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Science in 1992. In 1999, he became Director of the Cooperative
Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, a collaborative research
center between University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. He received the Chancellor's Award
for Distinguished Teaching in 1999. He is actively involved in a
variety of formal and informal education activities and uses a variety
of technologies and instructional strategies in his teaching. Steve
is a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy.
Jake Blanchard, Ph.D.
Jake Blanchard, PhD, is a professor in the Engineering Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in engineering, and a PhD in nuclear engineering, all from UCLA. He has published more than 75 articles in refereed journals in several engineering fields, including fusion technology, solid mechanics, materials, and applied physics. Dr. Blanchard received the prestigious UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002.
Pamela Scheibel, MS
Pam
is a Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing. Her research
focuses on the use of computer technology in education, nursing
care of children, and advanced nursing practice in pediatrics.
Her publications include Advanced assessment and clinical decision
making in primary care (1998) and Primary health care
of children (1997).
She has presented on web-based learning at the International Distance
Education Technology Conference in Madison, WI. Pam is
a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy.
Constance Steinkuhler, Ph.D. 
Constance Steinkuehler is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Communication & Technology program in the Curriculum & Instruction department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research is on cognition, learning and literacy in massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). Current interests include "pop cosmopolitanism" in online worlds and the intellectual practices that underwrite such a disposition, including informal scientific reasoning, collaborative problem solving, media literacy (as production, not just consumption), computational literacy, and the social learning mechanisms that support the development of such expertise (e.g., reciprocal apprenticeship, collective intelligence).
Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor
Jolanda teaches Dutch language, literature and culture
in the Department of German. Her publications include A Family
Occupation: Children of the War and the Memory of World
War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s(1997). Her research
focuses on 20th-Century Dutch literature and culture. She has also
presented on the uses of instructional technology.
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