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Glenda Kelly
EDUCATION
  • PhD, Duke, 1982

Glenda Kelly  
  • Office Location: 210 Hudson Hall
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5532
  • Email Address: glenda@ee.duke.edu
  • Web Page: http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/ECE/faculty/glenda.kelly

    • Glenda Kelly is a Research Scientist with the Visualization Technology Group in the ECE Department. The Visualization Technology Group promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition. In collaboration with Rachael Brady, Director of the VTG, Dr. Kelly will develop educational programs utilizing visualization as a significant learning component and assess impacts/utilization of visualization technology in various cognitive applications.

    Specialties
    • Nanoscience
      K-12 Education in Science & Mathematics

    Research Areas

      Glenda Kelly is a Research Scientist and Associate Director for Assessment and Outreach for the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT), Pratt School of Engineering. Dr. Kelly serves as evaluator for CEINT and designs and implements the overall program evaluation for the Center. She works with CEINT faculty and staff to define measurable educational objectives for activities related to communicating scientific discoveries emerging from Center research. In addition Dr. Kelly coordinates and develops K-12 educational outreach initiatives for CEINT in partnership with the local Museum of Life and Science and NISE Net, the largest U.S. network of informal science educators and researchers for fostering public awareness of nanoscale science and engineering. She also oversees the summer research and educational programs for high school students within CEINT. Her interests include building a network of collaborative partners to sustain and disseminate K-Ph.D. educational and research experiences in the critical area of nanomaterials science and environmental risk assessment. She has extensive background developing and evaluating science and engineering K-12 educational outreach programs and has special interest in developing ways to teach science and engineering to optimally engage diverse populations especially females and underrepresented minorities and in utilizing visualization as a significant learning component . Since 2001 she has worked in the area of developing, and evaluating K-12engineering and science outreach programs, training and supervising K-12 Duke teaching fellows, and designing user studies to test the efficacy of educational applications in the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment. Dr. Kelly earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in 1982 and 1979, with a concentration in statistics and development of psychological and educational assessment tools.

    Recent Publications

    1. Halpin, H., Zielinski, D. J., Brady, R., Kelly, G., Redgraph: Navigating Semantic Web Networks Using Virtual Reality? (2008) (IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2008.)
    2. Kelly, G.T., Klenk, P. and Ybarra, G.A., "Assessment of Gender Differences on Ratings of Engineering" (2007) (Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2007, American Society for Engineering Education, 2007..)
    3. Klenk, P.A., Dreher, F., Condon, E., Ybarra, G.A., Oliver, L., Kelly, G.T., Shaw, N., G. KellyAssessing English as a Second Language Middle School Students' Ability to Learn Engineering Concepts (2006) (Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2007, American Society for Engineering Education, 2007.)
    4. Ybarra,G., Klenk, P., and Kelly, G., "Thriving or Surviving K-12 Engineering Outreach at a Research" (2006) (Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2006, American Society for Engineering Education, 2006.)
    5. Klenk, P.A., Kelly, G.T., and Ybarra, G.A., "Impact of Engineering Outreach on Teaching Fellows," (2005) (Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2005.)
    6. Kelly, G.T., and Ybarra, G.A., "Math Understanding Through the Science of Life (MUSCLE)" (2003) (Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.)
    7. Ybarra,G., Absher M., Fitts T., Russell, J., Wynn,S., Ford, A., Oni, A., Kelly,G., MUSCLE: Math Understanding Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002, American Society for Engineering Education, 2002 the Science of Life (2002)