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Miserandino Named Professor of the Year
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As a result of such practices, Arcadia previously awarded Miserandino the Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence in 2000. Miserandino also strongly encourages students to conduct original empirical research. The success of this effort is impressive in that students have co-authored 11 poster presentations with Miserandino at Eastern Psychological Association meetings, including 28 students as co-authors, most of whom were the originators of the ideas for the research. An additional 43 student-authored poster presentations have been given at a wide variety of undergraduate research conferences.
Miserandino is a contributor to the journal Teaching of Psychology, with seven articles, several of which have been reproduced in collections of teaching activities. She also has contributed reviews, edited the insights series in the journal Social Psychology, and developed an Instructor's Manual for social psychology texts.
"One of her most adventurous scholarly activities is the development and maintenance of the wiki, Personality Pedagogy, which she monitors, tracks, and presents to psychology teacher groups," noted Berger. "The development of this unique, electronic teaching aid was supported by a grant from the American Psychological Society. The tracking of hits on her wiki shows over 95,000 visitors from 182 countries in its first year alone."
Miserandino has been the faculty adviser for the past decade and half to the Psi Chi honor society chapter at Arcadia, which is one of the oldest in the nation. Each year the university inducts a new cohort of students, who proudly wear the blue and yellow cords on their graduation gowns, as seen at the graduation ceremony.
"Marianne has also served on numerous committees and task forces in her 17 years at Arcadia, including key leadership roles with the Internationalization Task Force and the Committee for the Protection of Research Subjects," said Berger. "In regard to the latter, she made an important, and unusual, educational contribution by making presentations on research ethics to Arcadia graduate students during her three years as chair of that committee. For all these reasons, it is my pleasure to present the Professor of the Year Award for 2009 to Dr. Marianne Miserandino, and to wish her many more productive years as a faculty member at Arcadia University."