About the Creators

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Dr. Gwendolyn Cartledgecartledge_g_7635

Gwendolyn Cartledge is professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, College of Education and Human Ecology. She documents an extensive teaching career in both the public schools and higher education. A faculty member at OSU since 1986, her professional research and writings have centered on the social and academic skills of children with and without disabilities with a more recent emphasis on culturally and linguistically diversity. Currently she is the principal investigator on an IES, U.S. Department of Education grant to develop a reading fluency intervention for first and second grade students at risk for special education services. Gwendolyn Cartledge has been recognized for her teaching at OSU, for  her professional leadership in Ohio Council for Exceptional Children, and for her scholarship as Distinguished Alumni from the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Rajiv RamnathRajivRamnath081208_7694

Dr. Rajiv Ramnath is Director of Practice at the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI), and an evangelist for AweSim, a consortium that seeks to bring high-performance computing based modelling and simulation to small and medium enterprises in the Midwest. He was formerly Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp., in Columbus, Ohio, and led product-development and government-funded R&D – notably through the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols program funded by Vice President Gore’s ATP initiative. He is now engaged in developing industry-facing programs of applied R&D, classroom and professional education and technology transfer. His expertise ranges from wireless sensor networking and pervasive computing to business-IT alignment, enterprise architecture, software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments and work-management systems. He teaches software engineering at OSU and is involved in industry-relevant and inter-disciplinary curriculum development initiatives. Dr. Ramnath received his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from OSU and his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier

Dr. Ralph Gardner

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Dr. Jessica G. BennettJessica Bennett picture

Jessica is a practitioner-turned-researcher, whose work focuses on the use of direct instruction to improve the language and literacy development of children who are at-risk for reading failure. A three-time OSU alumna,  she has her B.A. in psychology, M.Ed. in Deaf Education, and Ph.D. in Special Education.   She enjoys staying physically active, cooking for her family, creative writing, and reading non-fiction period pieces.

Dr. Susan Keesey

Dr. Rudine Bishop-Simms

Mary Damer

 

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