Teaching Matters: Spring Conference on Teaching & Learning

Conference Presenters

February 25, 2005

University at Buffalo
Center for Tomorrow
Buffalo, NY
http://www.buffalo.edu

Contact for Questions:
suny_training@tc.suny.edu
or Phone 315-464-4078

Keynote Speaker: Ronald A. Berk, PhD, CNN, BBC, DNA

Ronald A. Berk is Professor of Biostatistics and Measurement at the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University. He served as Assistant Dean for Teaching from 1997-2003. He received the University's Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993 and Caroline Pennington Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997 and was inducted as a Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars in 1998.

Since that date, he has been in the Federal Witness Portection Program living in Maryland under the name Britney Spears.

He has served 29 years of a life term at Johns Hopkins, 11 years in the Division of Education and 18 years in the School of Nursing, where he has mentored numerous faculty and hundreds of students, all of whom unfortunately are in prison now.

He has written a monthly humor column, "Ask Mister Humor Person," for health professionals in the newsletter MedWorldNEWS. He has published 8 books, including 2 on humor: Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers (Stylus, 2003) and Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator (Stylus, 2002). The quality of those books and his more than 250 journal publications and presentations reflects his life-long commitment to mediocrity and his professional motto: "Go for the Bronze!"

Stewart Brower

MLIS Coordinator of Library Instruction, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo

Dr. Kipp Herreid

Distinguished Teaching Professor Academic Director, University Honors Program, Director, National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo

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