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CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Cynthia Lanius
Professional
Preparation
- Middle Tennessee State University Mathematics B.S. 1986
- University of Houston Mathematics Education M.S. (Expected Spring
2002)
Cynthia Lanius
Executive Director
Center for Excellence and Equity in Education
Rice University
Appointments:
- Executive Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, Rice University, 1999 - present
- Associate Director for Education, Outreach, and Training, Center for Research on Parallel Computation, Rice University, 1998-1999
- Mathematics Teacher, Milby High School, Houston Independent School District, 1990 - 1998
- Mathematics Teacher, Gallatin High School, Gallatin, TN, 1986 - 1990
Synergistic Activities
Developed and serve as Director for GirlTECH, a Teacher Professional
Development Program that has provided technology and gender equity training
to over 150 Houston teachers since its inception in 1995. GirlTECH is
being scaled to Boston and San Diego summer 2001 and Illinois in 2002.
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/
Played key role in development and serve as Director of Research and
Evaluation of Rice University's NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate, a program to increase minority participation
in science and engineering graduate education.
http://rgs.rice.edu/Grad/agep/
Played key role in development and serve on management team of Rice University's NSF-funded GK-12 program that places science and engineering graduate and undergraduate students into area middle schools.
Played key role in development in University of Houston's NSF-funded The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP). (Served on two-member proposal writing team)
Developed "Mathematics Lessons that are Fun, Fun, Fun", a
Website that has 1500 visits per day, receives awards and accolades
from 3rd graders to Ph.D.'s
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons
Publications:
- Tapia, R. and C. Lanius, 2000.Underrepresented Minority Achievement
and Course Taking:The Kindergarten-Graduate Continuum. Paper presened
at annual meeting of the National Institute for Science Education
Forum, Detroit, May 2000.
[Online] http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/DV/continuum/index.html - Tapia, R. and C. Lanius, 2000. Underrepresented Minority Achievement. In E. Briton, S Raizen, J Kaser, and A. Porter eds., Beyond Description of the Problems: Directions for research on Diversity and Equity Issues in K-12 Mathematics and Science Education. Madison, WI: National Institute for Science Education.
- Tapia, R, D. Chubin.and C. Lanius, 2000. Promoting National Minority
Leadership in Science and Engineering : A Report on Proposed Actions
[Online] http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/DV/leadership/index.html - Lanius, C. 1996. Math Lessons that are Fun, Fun, Fun.
[Online] http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons - Lanius, C. 1998. Getting Girls Interested in Computers
[Online] http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls.html - Tapia, R. and C. Lanius, 2000. Computational Science: Tools for
a Changing World A High School Curriculum.
[Online] http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/CS/index.html - Lanius, C.1998. Gap Online: A Girls Computer Club.
[Online] http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/ - Lanius, C.1999. Getting Girls Interested in Computer Science
[Online] http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls3.html
Collaborators:
John Bear, University of Houston, Daryl Chubin, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, John Hardy, University of Houston, Raquell Holmes, Boston University, Ken Kennedy, Rice University, Nanda Kirkpatrick, Rice University, Roseanne Steckler, University of California, San Diego, Richard Tapia, Rice University, Linda Torczon, Rice University, Edee Wizieski, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.