Glenda Kelly, Research Scientist and Director of Development, Duke Center for Science Education

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.

Contact Info:

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

Office Hours:

Full Time

Education:

PhD, Duke, 1982

Specialties:

Education, Engineering
K-12 Education in Science & Mathematics

Research Interests: Development of educational programs utilizing visualization as a significant learning component

Glenda Kelly is a Research Scientist with the Visualization Technology Group (VTG) in the ECE Department. In collaboration with Rachael Brady, Director of the VTG, she develops educational programs utilizing visualization as a significant learning component and assesses impacts/utilization of visualization technology in various cognitive applications. Dr. Kelly designs and runs user studies to test efficacy of Virtual Reality applications in the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) and collaborates with researchers and VTG team members to adapt their projects for education purposes that span cognitive and developmental levels. Dr. Kelly is also Director of Development of the Duke Center for Science Education. She has a special interest in developing ways to teach science and engineering to optimally engage diverse populations especially females and underrepresented minorities. Since 2001 she has worked in the area of developing, and evaluating K-12 engineering/science outreach programs, training and supervising K-12 Duke teaching fellows and grant writing. Dr. Kelly earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in 1982 and 1979 respectively in psychology, with a concentration in statistics and development of psychological assessment tools.

Areas of Interest:

Development of educational programs utilizing visualization as a significant learning component

Development of virtual reality and visualization tools for treatment of psychological disorders

State of-the-art protocol development for evaluating K-16 educational programs

Developing effective ways to engage diverse populations in K-12 science and engineering, especially females and underrepresented minorities

Representative Publications   (search)

• Halpin, H., Zielinski, D. J., Brady, R., Kelly, G., Redgraph: Navigating Semantic Web Networks Using Virtual Reality? (2008) (IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2008.) .
• 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..) .
• 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.) .
• 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.) .
• 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.) .
• 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.) .
• 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) .