Education Eclipse WSU College of Education

Johanna Thomas Zapata is AWESOME. She has a smile that lights up the room. And, she’s a dynamite individual who previously won the College of Education’s Three Minute Thesis. She’s a Fulbright scholar from Honduras, and pretty soon, she won’t be a doctoral student because she’ll be a doctor and will leave WSU and embark on her career. We chat with Johana about her time at WSU, a recent scholarship she received, and what the future has in store for her.

We chat with Lane Salvig (Backstrom), one of our Secondary Education alumni who is changing the way our students look at the world around them. And now, thanks to a Fulbright award, she'll spend six weeks in Morocco learning addition skills to prepare students for a competitive global economy. The Fulbright program equips educators to bring an international perspective to their schools through targeted training, experience abroad, and global collaboration. Lane talks about this, as well as why she wanted to be a teacher.

On this episode of Education Eclipse, we talk to Mathematics Education Professor Amy Roth McDuffie who, along with her husband Steve, has started an endowment that supports doctoral students. It's named for Mike and Fran Trevisan, who have played an integral role in the College of Education for 30-plus years, the last 10+ of which include Mike as the college dean.

Each year, soon-to-graduate seniors in the Sport Management program complete their capstones. These are group fundraiser projects where a student's knowledge of marketing, finance, legal, event planning, etc., is all put to the test.

We sat down with faculty member Chris Lebens who has helped oversee the program for years, to discuss this year's capstones and some of his best memories from days of yore.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.