Graduate Ambassador Directory
Donna Thomasson Smith
Major: Secondary Education Ph.D.
UA Involvement: Active on campus as a Graduate Student Association Delegate, on the College of Education Graduate Student Organization Advisory Council, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, and the National Alumni National Association and Tuscaloosa Chapter, is a GTA and the Music Education GTA Coordinator in the School of Music, volunteers on campus with the REACH program that serves students who aged out of the foster system or live in guardianships, serves as the Chair of the Executive Board for the REACH Advisory Council
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Email: dtsmith5@crimson.ua.edu
David Awoyemi
Major: Instructional Leadership Ph.D.
UA Involvement:
Research Interests: New technologies that may be applied to solve teaching and learning problems, instructional designing skills, and analytical skills that help with strategic thinking and tactical implementation
Hometown:
Email: idawoyemi@crimson.ua.edu
Ifesinachi J. Ezugwu
Major: Educational Research Ph.D.
UA Involvement:
Research Interests: The use of multilevel statistical techniques in predicting students’ academic achievement and using the outcomes of classroom assessment to inform effective teaching and learning at all levels of education
Hometown:
Email: ijezugwu@crimson.ua.edu
Amon Neely
Major: Higher Education Administration Ph.D.
UA Involvement: Graduate research assistant for the Higher Education program and active in the African American Graduate Student Association
Research Interests: Black student success, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), HBCU Performing Arts Programs, strategies for addressing White supremacy in post-secondary educational spaces, multicultural education, disruptive educational curriculum and African American Art Song Literature
Hometown:
Email: aneely@crimson.ua.edu
Mohammad Mohi Uddin
Major: Instructional Leadership Ph.D.
UA Involvement: Graduate research assistant in the Dean’s Office of the College of Education. Member of the Education Assessment Committee.
Research Interests: Instructional design in American and British literature teaching, artificial intelligence applications in instructional design, teacher professional development by integrating emerging educational technology, virtual internship programs for instructional technology graduate students, Cognitivist and Constructivist teaching approaches, the flipped classroom.
Hometown: Sunamganj, Bangladesh
Email: mmuddin@crimson.ua.edu
Daniel Oyeniran
Major: Educational Research Ph.D.
UA Involvement: Secretary of College of Education Graduate Student organization, mentor at International Peer Advisory Council (IPAC) and Tide Together program, active member of African Students Association.
Research Interests: Areas of interest spread across various aspects of scale development, psychometrics and measurement.
Hometown: Nigeria
Email: dooyeniran@crimson.ua.edu
Davin Nabizadeh
Major: Educational Psychology Ph.D.
UA Involvement: Serves on The University of Alabama Graduate Student Association Executive Council in the role of Vice President
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Hometown: Mahabad, Kurdistan
