Israeli scholar, alumna consults with faculty on joint research project
Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija, the first Israeli Arab woman to be appointed an associate professor at an Israeli research university and a graduate of UGA’s College of Education, is consulting with College of Education professor Allan Cohen and a grant team at the University of Kentucky on a joint research project.
During her recent visit to the UK College of Education, Nasser-Abu Alhija, along with Cohen and Hye-Jeong Choi, co-principal investigators of a $1.6 million grant from the National Center for Special Education Research, spent the day with UK professor Brian Bottge and his grant team discussing new math assessments and the research designs for evaluating them.
Teaching math is very important to me," said Nasser-Abu Alhija. “The thinking is whether we can implement the same project back home. I wanted to learn first hand how the Kentucky project was implemented and the requirements needed to accomplish it.