Professor Susan Behrens Receives the 2007-2008 Teaching Excellence Award

As an involved member of the MMC community, she is a member of the Steering Committee of the Strategic planning Committee and is a faculty representative to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Behrens has collaborated with many MMC faculty and staff members on various publications and presentations. She worked with Ann Jablon, chair of the Division of the Sciences on the forthcoming article “Speaker Perceptions of Communicative Effectiveness: Conversational Analysis of Student-Teacher Talk,” to be included in the Journal of College Science Teaching. She teamed up with Cindy Mercer, executive director of Academic Achievement, on “Crossing Boundaries: Neutralization of Prepositions,” as part of a conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in April 2007. In February 2007, Behrens presented “Stop the Lecture” during a workshop series for MMC faculty. She also gave a “Stress-Free Grammar” talk for the Writing Center at MMC in February 2007.

At Brown University, and later as a research associate at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cambridge University, Behrens conducted research on the processing of language and its neural connections. She coauthored the textbook An Introduction to Speech Science with Jack Ryalls. She is currently in contract with Routledge Press (UK) to co-edit and contribute to Language in the Real World: A Resource Book. Behrens holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics; an M.A. from Brown University; and a B.A. from Queens College of the City University of New York.

Published: August 31, 2007