Martha Garcia is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. She is UCF alumna and returned as a faculty member in 2005 from Vanderbilt University where she earned her doctorate degree. She teaches Spanish language, literature, and culture classes, and courses in her areas of research in literature and theatre: Spanish Medieval, Spanish Golden Age, and the Enlightenment of Spain. She is currently working on her fourth book manuscript and several other academic... Read More
On the morning of Friday, April 18, 2014, I had the pleasure of interviewing associate professor Dan Murphree from the Department of History about his prior experiences in the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Faculty Fellows program. Dan was a Fellow during the spring 2012 semester and has since incorporated many lessons about writing assignment design and scaffolding into his courses. For these efforts, professor Murphree was awarded the first Schell Award for Innovative Writing Instruction... Read More
Scot French is an associate professor in the Department of History. Dr. French is a digital public historian who specializes in the interpretation of cultural landscapes and sites of memory associated with African American, Southern, and Atlantic World history."To date, Ive evaluated four WAC-inspired assignments, with very promising results. My students are showing me how much they can learn about history by doing history through finely tuned research and writing assignments.... Read More
Andre J. Gesquiere is an Associate Professor at University of Central Florida, where he holds a position in the NanoScience Technology Center, with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL). His research program is focused on nanomaterials for biophotonics and biosensing, and energy conversion materials and devices.This summer, UCFs NanoScience Technology Center and Materials Science and Engineering Program hosted a summer research... Read More
