EdithChasen-Cerreta
Assistant Professor of
Physics
St. Albert Hall, Room B-34
Queens Campus
(718) 990-1863
chasene@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
B.S., M.A., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Prof. Chasen has been teaching geology and physics at St. John's
since 1980. She worked for AOL for many years, helping to develop
online areas, managing a staff of community leaders and fostering
online communities. Prof. Chasen is experienced in online
education, offering her geology and scientific inquiry geoscience
courses in the distance learning program, and uses web-based
materials as a supplement to her geology lecture course.
Prof. Chasen is a recipient of the Excellence in
Teaching and Scholarship Award for 2003. The award was
presented at the 2003 Commencement through St. John's and the Center for Teaching and
Learning. Additionally, she received the Exceptional
Service Award at the 2005 Faculty Convocation.
She is a first-year faculty participant in the University's Title III Grant
- Transforming Teaching with Technology, a project on the
cutting-edge in the use of technology in education.
She is a member of the Geological Society of America, Mineralogical
Society of America, American Institute of Physics/American
Crystallographic Association, New York Academy of Sciences and
American Association for the Advancement of Science.