Dr. Joslenne Peña
Informatics PhD
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Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55105 |
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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and I hold an online adjunct faculty appointment at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I just defended my dissertation toward the Informatics PhD Degree in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University.
There, I was an MPHD Sloan Scholar and a CRA-E fellow. And I was also a part of the Computer-Supported Collaboration and Learning laboratory which is under the supervision of Drs. Jack Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson (also my advisor). I held a 14-month internship assignment as a research associate at Honeywell Aerospace under their Human-Centered Systems Group.
Prior to the abovementioned, I defended my Master’s Thesis entitled, “An Investigation of Technology Design Features for Inverted Classroom Teaching” in August 2015 (also at Penn State). In May of 2013, I received my B.A. in Multimedia Web Design and Development from the University of Hartford.
Besides graduate school, I have several other interests: traveling, driving, cooking, puzzles/trivia, building lego models, playing guitar, beating some awesome switch games, and dabbling with new technology. I also spend massive amounts of time aimlessly surfing the web for random facts. I am a Netflix junkie, I binge-watch many many shows. Some of my favorites are LOST, Fringe, 30 Rock, the X-files, Arrested Development and much more! Likewise, I am a huge film nerd... I have some favorite all-time films, directors, and actors.
Education
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Ph.D. in Informatics, 2020
Human-computer Interaction; Computer Science Education
The Pennsylvania State University -
M.S. in Information Sciences and Technology, 2015
The Pennsylvania State University -
B.A. in Multimedia Web Design and Development, 2013
University of Hartford
News
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May 2022: Received a teaching fellowship from the Processing Foundation!!
Jan 2022: I am transitioning to a tenure-track position at Mac!
June 2020: I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation!
April 2020: I accepted an offer as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Macalester College starting Fall 2020 in St. Paul, MN!!
January 2020: I accepted an offer to become an Online Adjunct Faculty member at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, MN!! Check me Out!
October 24-28, 2019 Atlanta, GA: Institute for Teaching and Learning Invited once more to the Institute as a Sloan Scholar!
October 10-14, 2019 Memphis, TN: VL/HCC 2019 My short paper was accepted on the first phase of my dissertation research! September 2019: I was featured in Penn State News! IST students grow and connect at iSchool Inclusion Institute
August 10-15, 2019 Toronto, ON: ACM ICER 2019
Accepted to the ICER doctoral consortium and presented my dissertation research!
May 2019: I was chosen as the new CRA-E fellow! CRA Education Committee Selects New Graduate Fellow
Feb 2019: Our poster was accepted to SIGCSE 2019!
I was featured in an article for our upcoming Webinar (remote presentation)!
C&CS with Carmen Cole and Joslenne Peña, Code For Her: Reimagining Computing Education for Academic Library Outreach on Dec 5, 2018
September 2018: I was featured in a Daily Collegian Article!
'Code for Her' challenges gender barriers by teaching Penn State women computer programming