Founding officer
Susan Adamchick Condie, daughter of Thomas “Dinker” and Kathleen Adamchick, Saint Clair, has been named founding chief nursing officer for HomeHero, the largest independent home care provider in California.
She maintains her appointment as associate dean of nursing academics at West Coast University, Orange County, California campus. Condie was also selected to serve as a nursing education consultant for the State of California-Department of Consumer Affairs.
Susan graduated from Pottsville Area High School and Pottsville Hospital School of Nursing. She attended Penn State Schuylkill campus and earned a bachelor’s degree from Penn State Harrisburg campus. She continued her education at Widener University, Chester, receiving a master’s degree in nursing with an emphasis in adult health clinical nurse specialist. She earned a post master’s in nursing education from Widener and a post master’s in nursing administration from Villanova University.
She is scheduled for a final dissertation defense of her Ph.D. in April at Widener with an anticipated graduation date of May.
Condie is also a doctorate of nursing practice student at Walden University and ex-pects to earn a second doctoral degree in December. She holds numerous professional memberships and certifications spanning the administrative, education and practice fields of nursing.
Polar expedition
Kelly McCarthy, a science and math teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School, Coal Township, will be fulfilling her longtime dream of completing a polar research expedition when she spends several weeks this spring flying over the Arctic Circle with NASA’s Operation IceBridge.
Beginning in March, McCarthy will participate as a research team member in an authentic scientific expedition in the Arctic, joining other K-12 teachers who will be working in research locations from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. She will fly over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean with NASA’s Operation IceBridge in an airborne laboratory as they collect data on changing ice sheets.
McCarthy is one of 15 teachers chosen through a highly selective nationwide search to participate in PolarTREC, an educational re-search experience in which K-12 teachers participate in polar research, working closely with scientists to improve science education. Through PolarTREC, selected teachers have the rare opportunity to spend two to six weeks working with a research team in the Arctic or Antarctic.
Teachers and researchers will share their experiences with scientists, educators, communities and students of all ages through the use of Internet tools. After the field experience, teachers and researchers will continue to share their experiences with the public and create instructional activities to transfer scientific data, methodologies, and technology to classrooms.
To follow her expedition and interact with McCarthy and the research team while they are in the field, find her blog at www.PolarTREC.com next month.