{"id":9179,"date":"2018-08-21T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:23:23","slug":"new-faculty-include-brown-fellows-in-health-sciences-sustainable-food-systems-stetson-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2018\/08\/9179\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faculty include Brown Fellows in Health Sciences, Sustainable Food Systems | Stetson Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This story was reprinted in its entirety from\u00a0Stetson Today<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Brown Teacher-Scholar Kirk Roberson knows a way for Stetson students majoring in Health Sciences to easily get hands-on, practical experience right on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kirk Roberson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Roberson, Ph.D., will join the faculty for Fall Semester 2018 as a\u00a0Brown Visiting Teacher-Scholar Fellow<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in a new interdisciplinary program between the Department of Health Sciences and Stetson\u2019s Wellness and Recreation department.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pairing the two departments is \u201ca perfect match\u201d for students in\u00a0Health Sciences<\/span>, who, in addition to seeking careers as physicians, physical and occupational therapists, and other medical professionals, could expand their career options to such things as exercise physiology and sports management, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as the Health Sciences Department being paired with the\u00a0Wellness and Recreation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Center, this is the first time that they\u2019ve had this position in this capacity,\u201d said Roberson, who earned his doctorate in exercise physiology from the University of Miami in May and was named its \u201cOutstanding Doctoral Student of the Year\u201d for 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wellness and Recreation Center has many opportunities for students to start working with either community citizens or in some cases even patients who are referred to start an exercise program. \u2026 It gives them an opportunity to start getting real-world experience that they otherwise wouldn\u2019t get without a good interdisciplinary relationship between the two departments,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberson will be working with the Wellness and Recreation Center to develop a new community-based fitness assessment program. This program will provide students with the opportunity to interact directly with members of the community, and have a positive impact on the overall health and wellness of local citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberson is among the 17 new faculty members who will start work at Stetson University for the 2018-19 academic year. He will join Brown Teacher-Scholar, Sarah Cramer, who will help launch a new interdisciplinary program offering a\u00a0Minor in Sustainable Food Systems\u00a0<\/span><\/a>in the Department of\u00a0<\/span>Environmental Science and Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New Stetson faculty for the 2018-19 academic year joined\u00a0Julia Metzker,\u00a0executive director for the\u00a0Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence<\/span><\/span>, lower left, for a photo outside Sampson Hall this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sarah Cramer, left, spent time teaching in a school garden in Missouri, above, before earning a Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Cramer, who earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Education from the University of Missouri in May, will teach Introduction to Food Studies and a Junior Seminar called Seeds of Equity that examines the inequities in America\u2019s food system \u2014 from food insecurity to migrant labor \u2014 based on race, class and gender.<\/span><\/p>\n

Julia Metzker<\/a><\/span>, Ph.D., executive director for the\u00a0Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence<\/span><\/a>, said the Brown Center \u201cinvests in the intellectual capital of the institution\u201d by funding four endowed fellows who work as visiting assistant professors for up to two academic years. One of these fellowships is dedicated to STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).<\/span><\/p>\n

The fellowships are funded through a generous endowment from longtime Stetson Trustees Cici and Hyatt Brown and support a \u201cniche area of expertise\u201d that brings a cross-disciplinary approach to the university, according to\u00a0the Brown Center website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Julia Metzker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve had a program between an academic department and a nonacademic program,\u201d Metzker said, referring to Roberson\u2019s position within the Department of Health Sciences and the Wellness and Recreation Center. \u201cWe\u2019d like to encourage more of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year, academic departments submit\u00a0proposals\u00a0between November and March, and these go to a committee for competitive review. Awards are announced in May, followed by a yearlong search process that culminates with the fellows starting the next academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last spring, the Brown Center awarded a\u00a02019-2021 Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellowship in Public History<\/span><\/a>, through a request spearheaded by the chair of the History Department, Emily Mieras, Ph.D., in collaboration with her colleagues, Mayhill Fowler, Ph.D., and Kimberly Reiter, Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellows teach three or four classes a year, and reduce the teaching load for their colleagues in the academic department. They also get to experience teaching at a liberal arts college and can participate in the\u00a0Brown Innovation Fellows Program<\/span><\/a>, the center\u2019s signature development opportunity for Stetson faculty that immerses them in\u00a0a yearlong journey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of hands-on experiences and meaningful discussions about teaching and learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The job description for the Brown Teacher-Scholar position was very appealing, said Roberson, the new visiting assistant professor in Health Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey had an approach, or a philosophy, of maintaining not only the research end of your profession but also the teaching aspect and the aspect of working with the community, via the Wellness Center,\u201d said Roberson, adding that his father-in-law and brother-in-law are alumni of Stetson College of Law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really the only position and the only university that I saw that had a position as a postdoctoral fellow that encompassed all of those<\/span>\u00a0things. Definitely, it was my number one choice and the number one reason that I wanted to come here,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

[This story was reprinted in its entirety from\u00a0Stetson Today<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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