On the Move

GSE Professor Jaekyung Lee will travel throughout Asia as he studies how to make education more accessible to girls, immigrants, refugees and other marginalized communities with a 2020-21 Fulbright Global Scholar Award, one of the most competitive awards from the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

An international leader in education policy and equity, Lee will examine how public schools provide safe, supportive learning environments for vulnerable students as he visits South Korea, Vietnam and Kazakhstan.

Xiufeng Liu a professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction, has been elected to be a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Raven Baxter, PhD ’21, has been named a recipient of the 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence in the new Special Service category for her efforts to educate the community about the facts related to COVID-19 and safety. Baxter, also a recipient of the prestigious Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship, graduated this year from GSE with a doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning.

Baxter, a molecular biologist, science communicator and educator, is the founder of the STEMbassy science advocacy organization. She gave the opening keynote at SciComm 2020, a conference dedicated to effective communication of science to diverse audiences. She was also featured in Mother Jones magazine and on Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40” list of emerging leaders in 2020.

Baxter is also a songwriter and performer who incorporates educational themes into her recordings and music videos. “Wipe It Down,” her parody of Lil Boosie’s “Wipe Me Down,” highlighted information, science and safety tips related to the pandemic. It was viewed nearly 27,000 times in its first three months. Through her efforts this past year, Baxter has reached more than 4 million viewers and has won 200,000 followers worldwide as she shares her ideas about best practices in science and education.

Heather Hagenbuch, PhD ’21 Higher Education, is this year’s winner of the Edwin D. Duryea Jr. Higher Education Memorial Award.

Christiana Kfouri, PhD ’21 Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning, is this year’s winner of the Delbert Mullens “Thinking Outside the Box” Award.

Nancy Krisch, a Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning doctoral candidate, won the 2020 Physical Therapy Learning Institute’s Education Influencer Award.

Felipe Orozco, a doctoral student in the Curriculum, Instruction and Science of Learning Department, is the 2021 winner of the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center’s Transforming Education Through Leading and Learning, or TELL, Award for Outstanding Innovative Leader.

Jennifer Saboda, an Education Leadership and Policy doctoral student, has been named a Clark Scholar and joined the 2021 UCEA David L. Clark National Graduate Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy.

Stephanie Schaefer, PhD ’20 Curriculum Instruction and Science of Learning, won the American Education Research Association, or AERA, 2021 Division H’s Outstanding Publications Competition in Category 5: Outstanding Dissertation.

Kerri Shaffer, an Information Science doctoral student, won a Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship from the Medical Library Association.

Charice Thompson, MS ’21 Information and Library Science master’s degree student, won the 2021 New York Library Association Dewey Scholarship and the Drs. Henry J. and Bonita R. Durand Scholarship.

Catherine Fisher Collins, EdM ‘79, EdD ’90, won the Graduate School of Education’s Distinguished Alumni Award.