Bachelor of Arts in English Education, University of Connecticut
M.A. in Literature, with honors, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Southern Maine, degree expected January 2005

Member:  University Library Committee  [Chair, 2000-present]
                NEASC Subcommittee on Standard 7, Libraries and Information Resources [spring 2002]
               Ward College Academic Standings Committee  [Chair, 2000-2001]
               ABET Documentation Preparation Committee [1998-present]
               Copyright Committee [summer and fall 2003]
 

Editor:  Happenings, Ward College newsletter [1998-present]

Professor Segal is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication and a columnist for the Society's Central Connecticut Chapter newsletter as well as a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Society for the Study of Narrative, and the American Society for Engineering Education.  She was also a Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Center at the University of Hartford for 1999-2000, speaking on the topic, "The Computer and Narrative:  How We Tell Stories Now."

Professor Segal's paper on using the freshman English composition class as preparation for technical writing courses was presented at a poster session of the 1999 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).   Her paper entitled, "A Patent on Your Resume, or Encouraging Creativity Among Technology Students," was published in the Proceedings of the ASEE's Annual Conference in 2000.  She presented on the topic of "The Computer and Narrative" at the School of Visual Arts Fourteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists.  A paper she co-authored with Professor Townsend titled "Word Problems and Problems with Words" was presented at the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June 2001.  The paper was also published in the Proceedings of the conference.  Other papers coauthored with Dr. Townsend have also been presented at ASEE Annual Conferences and published in the Proceedings: "Teaching Problem Solving in an Integrated Mathematics-Writing Curriculum" was presented and published in 2002, and "The Use of the Visual-Spatial Intelligence in the Solution of Elementary Physics Problems," in 2003.  Professor Segal and Professor Peter Schuyler of the Electronics Engineering Technology Department have coauthored a paper entitled "Creating a Dialogue for Ethics Discussion in Engineering Technology Curricula" that is under consideration by the CIEC for presentation in February 2004 in Biloxi.

In addition, Professor Segal is involved in research on multiple intelligences in the college classroom in collaboration with Professor Janet Kremenitzer of the School of Education and Dr Lee Townsend, also of Ward College.
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e-mail: nsegal@mail.hartford.edu
860-768-4480, East Hall 219

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.   -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)