Kimberly K. Eby, Ph.D. - Associate Provost for Faculty Development

Kim is a community psychologist with broad interests in domestic violence; violence and gender; and collaboration and community building in a variety of contexts, especially in interdisciplinary teaching and learning.  A faculty member at Mason since 1996, she taught primarily in New Century College, an undergraduate integrated and interdisciplinary studies program.  In addition to New Century College, she is a Women's Studies faculty member and affiliate of the Department of Psychology.  In recent years she has co-edited an interdisciplinary reader on violence and gender and written about faculty roles in interdisciplinary collaborative work; collaborative learning; pedagogical strategies in teaching about controversial and sensitive issues; and responding to the needs of domestic violence survivors.  This past year she was awarded a University Life Faculty Fellow to explore the use of electronic portfolios for integrating students' curricular and co-curricular learning around the topic of leadership.  She was a consultant for the National Learning Communities Project and continues to present at national and regional meetings, as well as individual institutions regarding developing interdisciplinary curricula, faculty collaboration, working with student and faculty diversity, integrating service learning in the classroom, and other pedagogical issues.  She served as Mason's campus team leader for a Ford Planning Grant titled, "The Engaged Campus in a Diverse Democracy: Student Learning and Faculty Work."

Giuseppina Kysar Mattietti, Ph.D. - CTE Faculty Fellow & Assistant Professor of Earth Science and Science Education

Giuseppina is a geologist with expertise in igneous petrology and geochemistry of oceanic magmas.  She joined George Mason Environmental Science and Policy faculty in Fall 2002 to teach Geology courses and to coordinate introductory level geology classes. Since Fall 2005 she has joined the office of the Provost-Center for teaching Excellence to work on projects to enhance the undergraduate scientific teaching and learning experience at Mason.

In her homecountry, Italy, Giuseppina worked at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology as junior researcher during the early nineties. From 1995 to 2002 she worked at the Department of Mineral Sciences of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in several projects in petrology and volcanology and Museum Exhibits.

Currently she is working at an interdisciplinary project on the geologic evolution of the northern Caribbean region with colleagues from other universities in the US and Canada.  Her recent activities with the Center for Teaching Excellence include assisting with the undergraduate research program, fostering faculty development initiatives like the consortium of women scientists and actively contributing to the Critical Thinking and Scientific Reasoning assessment projects at GMU.

Ashleen Gayda – Administrative and Program Specialist

Ashleen graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Visual Technology, concentrating in digital art and animation with a minor in English.  Prior to joining the Center for Teaching Excellence in July 2008, she held positions of both mentor and student administrative supervisor at the Student Technology Assistance Resource Center while pursuing her studies.

Shannon Jacobsen - QEP Administrative Specialist

Shannon is a senior in New Century College and is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Studies with an individualized concentration in Social Inequalities and Violence with minors in Leadership and Psychology. She joined the CTE Team in the spring of 2008.