There are many kinds of dementias. Elizabeth 'Like' Lokon, founder and director of Opening Minds through Art (OMA) an award-winning, evidence-based art program for people with neurocognitive disorders uses dementia in plural form to convey the fact that it has many types.
Ellen Yezierski, Professor of Chemistry, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.9M NSF DRK-12 grant. The project aims to improve our knowledge of the ways in which conceptual understanding in high school chemistry is afforded and constrained by teachers use of dynamic, molecular-level visualizations.
