Dr. Ellen Faszewski is a clinical professor in the Science Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a cell and developmental biologist whose primary research interests are amphibian development and sponge immunology.<\/p>\n
Dr. Faszewski is an environmental advocate with experience organizing annual events, including the Colleges of the Fenway Muddy River Symposium and Muddy River clean-up. Her work has been recognized by the Maintenance and Management Oversight Committee of the Muddy River Restoration Project and Colleges of the Fenway. She is currently a member of the Muddy Water Initiative Advisory Board. She also uses her passion for STEM education by collaborating with Massachusetts General Hospital\u2019s Youth Scholars STEM Program for rising 10th graders.<\/p>\n
As BU Wheelock\u2019s associate dean for student affairs, Dr. Faszewski has examined the impacts of mergers in higher education on academic engagement and performance, interpersonal relationships, and psychological well-being. Passionate about addressing food insecurity on college campuses, she worked in collaboration with the executive director of the University\u2019s Well-Being Initiative to obtain funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts\/Department of Education to centralize and expand food pantry access and education at Boston University.<\/p>\n
Durand T., Faszewski, E. E., Murphy, K., Villegas-Reimers, E. (2023). Thriving as an indicator of student and institutional success during a higher education merger. Annual meeting of NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Boston, MA.<\/p>\n
Durand T., Faszewski, E. E., Murphy, K., Villegas-Reimers, E. (2023). \u201cIt wasn’t what I expected”: Students\u2019 Perspectives and Experiences on a Higher Education Merger. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24426,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20507,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20503\/revisions\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}