Mulugeta Gebregziabher

ASA Fellow Mulugeta Gebregziabher was recently awarded the Victor Sidel and Barry Levy Award for Peace by the American Public Health Association for bringing global attention to the Ethiopian government’s human rights violations against residents of the Tigray region.

A native of the Tigray region, Gebregziabher has used published research, global symposiums, and advocacy of world leaders to inform public health professionals, governments, and academia about the attacks on Tigray’s civilians, health care infrastructure, and food security.

Each year, the American Public Health Association honors excellence in public health leadership and innovation from state and local health officials to those speaking up for public health from the halls of Congress.

Hollylynne Lee and Gemma Mojica

Professor Hollylynne Lee and senior research scholar Gemma Mojica of North Carolina State University will work to transform teacher preparation for data science and statistics education with a grant of $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation.

In 2016, both Lee and Mojica addressed preparing teachers through the NSF-funded Enhancing Statistics Teacher Education with E-Modules (ESTEEM) project. ESTEEM provides free, accessible tools that allow pre-service middle- and high-school mathematics teachers to engage with meaningful materials and has been used in courses by more than 70 teacher educators across the country. 

“Our prior work has filled a gap in teacher education by providing high-quality curricular materials. All of our materials have been packaged into learning management systems that faculty can upload into their own courses,” Mojica said. “We will be expanding our materials to incorporate more practices and processes related to data science.”

This new project aims to build and sustain a data science and statistics teacher education network and provide high-quality teacher education materials.

The team plans to create a website to house educational and curricular materials related to data science and statistics education and offer educators a chance to upload resources and materials they have found useful in their own classrooms.

“We will have online spaces for the community to share resources, engage in professional learning, and connect with each other,” Lee said. “Throughout the project, there will be webinars and convenings to provide forums to discuss issues and tackle problems of practice that faculty identify as some of their most pressing needs.”