Shanon Reckinger, et. al. in the news:
2021
January 2021 - BTT Chicago runs our first Winter Guild. Dr. Reckinger is one of the three instructors, joined by Dr. Diaz and Jackie Moore. See highlights here.
February 2021 - The third eCSR Workshop takes place remotely! See highlights here.
March 2021 - Dr. Reckinger highlights some best practices in online teaching (sync): see video here.
March 2021 - Dr. Reckinger provides keynote address for SWE in the City, Chicago, IL. She highlights here research and career in STEM, but also discusses the transition to remote work.
April 2021 - Our eCSR Machine Learning Workshop takes place remotely! See highlights here.
April 2021 - Dr. Reckinger is a volunteer teaching mentor for Stanford’s Code in Place. More information about the program here: https://news.stanford.edu/2021/03/22/famous-stanford-coding-course-free-online/.
May 2021 - Dr. Reckinger serves on a panel for the CATE Summer Institute Kickoff to talk about lessons learned in online teaching as a representative of the College of Engineering.
June 2021 - Dr. Reckinger runs the first CS 111 offering through Break Through Tech Chicago. Highlights here.
July 2021 - Dr. Reckinger completed the Designing Empirical Education Research Studies (DEERS) workshop Supported by NSF DUE’s IUSE program (#1525373, #1525173, #1525028)..
August 2021 - Dr. Reckinger is promoted to Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
2020
January 2020 - UIC team (see team here) is awarded one of the largest grants in UIC engineering history to start Break Through Tech Chicago. Read more about it here, here, or here.
February 2020 - The second exploreCSR workshop takes place. See highlights here.
April 2020 - Dr. Reckinger is a volunteer instructor for Stanford’s Code In Place. A free course offered at the start of the COVID pandemic. Over 10000 students took the course from over 144 different countries. Read more about here.
May 2020 - BTT Chicago runs our first program, a 4-week summer course of CS 100 (Dr. Reckinger is the instructor). More about the course here.
June 2020 - Highlight on GET Cities, watch here.
July 2020 - Dr. Reckinger discusses using Piazza to keep faculty connected through COVID. Watch here.
August 2020 - BTT Chicago runs our first Summer Guild. Dr. Reckinger collaborating with Dr. Dale Reed on developing the Guild curriculum and is the instructor of the first Guild.
September 2020 - Dr. Reckinger receives a second year of exploreCSR grant/award funding from Google in the amount of $15,000 to hold problem solving and research workshops for female computer science students. Nimeesha Chan and the UIC ecsr workshop are highlighted on the Google Research blog (read here).
2019
June 2019 - Dr. Reckinger participates in the Google Faculty Residence Program in Mountain View, CA. Read more about it here (.pdf) and see photos here.
September 2019 - Dr. Reckinger becomes a faculty fellow in UIC’s Office of Diversity’s Inclusive Classroom Initiative. Read more about it here.
September 2019 - Dr. Reckinger receives an exploreCSR grant/award from Google in the amount of $26,000 to hold problem solving and research workshops for female computer science students. Read more about it here (.pdf) or here (.pdf).
October 2019 - The first exploreCSR workshop takes place. See highlights here and here.
2018
August 2018 - Dr. Reckinger graduates with an MS degree in Computer Science Education from Stanford University (here).
August 2018 - Dr. Reckinger joins the faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago in the department of Computer Science. Faculty profile can be found here.
2017
Summer, 2017 - Dr. Reckinger joins the MS program in Computer Science Education at Stanford University. The program is a 1 year program. More about program here.
Spring, 2017 - Dr. Reckinger's capstone students design and build automation staging for MSU's spring musical, "Spring Awakening". Student Aaron Benson is featured in an MSU news story.
2016
June, 2016 - FYFD features "A Day in the Life of a Fluid Dynamicist" in five blog posts here.
Fall, 2016 - Drs. Shanon and Scott Reckinger collaborate with over 40 MSU students for an APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion video "MSU Students Living Fluid Dynamics".
November, 2016 - FYFD features the "MSU Students Living Fluid Dynamics" video in a blog post.
2015
February, 2015 - Overflow research is featured on the MITgcm website.
August, 2015 - Dr. Reckinger joins the faculty at Montana State University in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
October, 2015 - Bozeman Chronicle story about female faculty at Montana State University: Chronicle (.pdf).
November, 2016 - APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion features "A Day In the Life of a Fluid Dynamicist".
2014
January, 2014 - Dr. Reckinger joins the ASAP Advance NSF initiative to help support women in STEM fields at primarily undergraduate institutions. ASAP Advance News
May, 2014 - Dr. Reckinger’s SpinLeaf (Senior Design) project at Fairfield University merges small family farms with local university- FU Story, ecoRI, CCIC
May, 2014 - Dr. Reckinger is inducted into Fairfield University's chapter of the Sigma Xi Honors Society.
June, 2014 - Dr. Reckinger wins "Best Paper in the ME Division" at the ASEE National Conference and a $500 cash award for her paper "An Interactive Programming Course Model for Mechanical Engineering Students".
2013
August, 2013 - Dr. Reckinger joins the female STEM faculty at Fairfield University as a faculty advisor and mentors for aspiring engineers from local high schools. BASE Camp - Ocean Curriculum - FU Story, Digital Journal
May, 2013 - Dr. Reckinger is awarded a grant to fund a senior design project where students design a rainwater harvester on the Fairfield University campus in collaboration with Fairfield University facilities. Rainwater Harvest for Barone Campus Center (Senior Design) - Grant Awarded, Green News, CT Post
December, 2013 - Dr. Reckinger is featured on the Rebound blog for her work with Russell Muren and Yenny Rua for their work in 3D printing project. Rebound Technology News
2012
June, 2012 - Dr. Reckinger and Dr. Ryan Munden redesign the introduction to engineering course, implementing an end of the year walk on water competition. Read more about it here: WOW and EG31 Redesign Story, .pdf
December, 2012 - Dr. Reckinger is feature in Progressive Engineering. Read about it Progressive Engineering Profile, .pdf
2011
July, 2011 - Dr. Reckinger accepts the offer to join the faculty at Fairfield University as an Assistant Professor and Clare Boothe Luce Professor. Forbes Article - Advancing Women in Science, .pdf. Clare Boothe Luce Announcement, .pdf
August, 2011 - Shanon graduates with a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder. And starts her faculty position at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT.
2010
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Lab (my PhD thesis advisor's lab)
Student Awards and News
January, 2015 - Marty Gallagher, Katherine Pitz, Yenny Rua, Melissa Sulciner are awarded $1500 through Fairfield's Campus Sustainability Award to put towards their Senior Design project, SpinLeaf 2.0.
January, 2015 - Thomas Gibson, Fred Hohman, and Theresa Morrison won the first place prize at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting Undergraduate Poster Session for Computational Mathematics.
November, 2014 - Yenny Rua presented her work on the Amia Fish Feeding Efficiency at the poster session at APS-DFD. Thomas Gibson, Fred Hohman, and Theresa Morrison presented their REU Overflow work as a talk, as well.
November, 2014 - Marty Gallagher, Katherine Pitz, Yenny Rua, Melissa Sulciner are awarded $1200 from Fairfield's Lawrence Scholars program to put towards their Senior Design project, SpinLeaf 2.0.
October, 2014 - Yenny Rua is awarded $2000 from Fairfield's Lawrence Scholars program to do research with Dr. Reckinger over the 2014/2015 AY and to travel to San Francisco to present at APS-DFD.
September, 2014 - Yenny Rua receives an undergraduate student travel grant of $400 from APS to attend APS-DFD in San Francisco.
September, 2014 - Thomas Gibson, Fred Hohman, Theresa Morrison receive travel grants from their respective home departments to attend APS-DFD in San Francisco and JMM in San Antonio to present his research on his summer REU project.
May, 2014 - Robert Governale, Colin Nerich, Claudele Pierre, and Seyal Sharoz receive a $500 sponsorship from Whole Foods for their Senior Design Project, SpinLeaf.
April, 2014 - Yenny Rua and Kaitlin Maciejewski win second place (and $200) in the student poster session at the SWE Region F Conference in Springfield, MA for the their poster, "The relationship between the pH of Sodium Hydroxide and 3D printed support resin dissolution".
April, 2014 - Katherine Pitz and Samantha Canosa win third place in the undergraduate student poster session at the ASEE Zone 1 Conference in Bridgeport, CT for their poster "Mouth shape evolution for Amia fish feeding".
October, 2013 - Robert Governale, Colin Nerich, Claudele Pierre, and Seyal Sharoz receive a $200 grant from the Office of Service Learning at Fairfield University for their Senior Design project, SpinLeaf.
December, 2012 - Joe Bocchino, Andrew Jackowitz, and John Perry win a $1500 campus sustainability grant for their rainwater harvester design for Senior Project.