Student/Faculty/Staff Updates
School of Arts, Science & Business
Dr. Meenu Vikram Accompanies Biology Students to Present Research
Two students from the Biology Department at Notre Dame of Maryland University (NDMU), Nisttha Ray '26 and Adam Malinowski '27, participated in and presented their research, “Did We Hear the Same Thing? Comparing Faculty and Student Sentiment Ratings of Science Laboratory Course Feedback,” at the 11th Maryland Collegiate STEM Conference on April 18, 2026.
School of Education
Dr. Kyler Leiter '25 Presented at American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting
Dr. Molly Dunn’s PhD advisee, Dr. Kyler Leiter '25, presented dissertation research at the AERA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on April 11. The title of the presentation was “Let Them Play: A Social-Emotional Play Intervention to Negate Adverse Behaviors of Kindergarten Students,” part of the “Early Education and Child Development” SIG’s programming. The recommendation to pair play with SEL instruction in order to positively impact behavior, transfer explicitly taught social skills, and scaffold vulnerable populations was well-received and backed by findings from the study. They currently have a manuscript under review on this topic.
Dr. Angelo J. Letizia Publishes Article
Dr. Angelo J. Letizia's new peer-reviewed article Making the Social Studies work in the Age of AI has been published in The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies and can be found here.