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CHRISTINE A. NEWMAN, M.B.A.
Assistant Dean, Center for Educational Outreach, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-4473; Fax: (410) 516-0264; email: cnewma13@jhu.edu

Professional Preparation:
Virginia Polytechnic and State University B.S. Mechanical Engineering 1989
Marshall University MBA 1995

Appointments:
2010-Present Assistant Dean, Center for Educational Outreach, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2007-2009 Director, Business Transformation Office, Single Family Mortgage Division, Fannie Mae, Washington DC
2005-2007 Program Pricing Director, Restatement Division, Fannie Mae, Washington, DC
2000-2005 Senior Program Manager, eBusiness Division, Fannie Mae, Washington, DC
1999-2000 Senior Product Manager, Essential Technologies, Inc., Rockville, MD
1998-1999 Product Manager, Essential Technologies, Inc., Rockville, MD
1994-1998 Manager, Air Programs, Apex Environmental Inc., Rockville, MD
1993-1994 Senior Environmental Engineer, Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics, Inc., Charleston, WV
1989-1992 Advanced Systems Engineer, Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics, Inc., Charleston, WV

Synergistic Activities:
Project Leadership Team for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES), an NSF Funded Math Science Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools Grant No. DUE-1237992, 2012 – present.
Co-Lead, STEM workgroup, Consortium for Urban Education, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015
Maryland State Department of Education STEM Equity workgroup 2014-2015
Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, License No. 021864, 1996-2010
Board of Directors, Maryland Science Olympiad, 2010-present
Champions Board, Mid Atlantic Girls Collaborative Network

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Carolyn Parker is a STEM education faculty member and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Her work appears in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Written Communication, and School Science and Mathematics and the edited volume: Research on Women in Education Series: Girls and Women in STEM Fields: A Never Ending Story.

Dr. Parker is a co-principal investigator for JHU’s National Science Foundation STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES) grant. The SABES grant is a 7.4 million dollar award that leverages the skills and resources of the schools, community, and businesses in three high-minority, low-resource Baltimore city neighborhoods. The goal is to integrate science into a child’s world as opposed to bringing a student into the world of scientists.

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Alisha N. Sparks works to educate and inspire parents to see their roles and responsibilities as a privilege in coordinating the raising and education of their children. Her current work as the Elementary STEM Program Manager with the Center for Educational Outreach at Johns Hopkins University allows her to capitalize on her 15 years of experience in formal and informal education to bring STEM educational experiences to students and parents in Baltimore. Her passion is working with young people and helping them to succeed as she firmly believes that "it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men [and women]" as stated by Frederick Douglass.

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Michael Falk is Vice Dean of Undergraduate Education at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering where he has served on the faculty since 2008 as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with secondary appointments in Mechanical Engineering and in Physics and Astronomy. He holds a B.A. in Physics (1990) and a M.S.E. in Computer Science (1991) from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been twice selected as a visiting Chaire Joliot at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles at Paris Tech and has organized extended workshops on the physics of glasses and on friction, fracture and earthquakes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has received several awards for his educational accomplishments, and in 2011 he received an award from the university's Diversity Leadership Council for his work on LGBT inclusion. His education research focuses on integrating computation into the undergraduate core curriculum. Falk also serves as the lead investigator for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES) an NSF funded Community Enterprise for STEM Learning partnership between JHU and Baltimore City Schools.

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