Associate Director, Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research Ideation | Deliberative | Learner | Strategic | Intellection rensing@ksu.edu Campus office: 336C Hale Library
Responsibilities
Susan directs the Developing Scholars Program and coordinates with faculty, staff, and students to increase undergraduate research opportunities across campus. She is a member of the Core Team for Applied Learning Experiences, a University Honors Program Grand Challenge Teams Faculty Fellow, and the Staley School representative on the Kansas Water Institute Working Group. She is also a graduate faculty member in the Master of Public Health program and an Executive Board member of the LGBTQ* Faculty Staff Alliance.
Teaching
Each semester I teach the first-year cohort of DSP scholars. I love connecting students with research mentors and helping them launch their research projects and present at the Campus-Wide Spring Research Symposium.
Current Courses
LEAD 502: Developing Scholars Program seminar
20 years of award-winning teaching of community-engaged courses
Established track record of interdisciplinary research, grants, and collaborative projects
Published scholar of teaching and learning with expertise in health equity
Ph.D., History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota
B.S. (with Honors), History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas
Health equity
History of Science, Medicine & Gender
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Selected Publications
A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms (co-authored with Christie Launius and Holly Hassel), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
"Integrating National Violent Death Reporting System Data into Maternal Mortality Review Committees," (co-authored with Jennifer Miller), Journal of Women’s Health, November 2021, Vol. 30, Issue 11, 1573-1579.
“‘Falling in Love Intelligently’: Eugenic Love in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies Summer 2016, Issue 5.2
“‘Wisconsin Ousts Cupid’: Wisconsin’s Eugenic Marriage Experiment,” Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review Winter/Spring 2016, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 44-53.
“Women ‘waking up’ and Moving the Mountain: The Feminist Eugenics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,”
MP: An Online Feminist Journal, Spring 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 96-120.
Grants
Co-Principal Investigator (with Ellyn Mulcahy), “Ready to Serve: Building a Day One Ready Public Health Workforce for Kansas,” Public Health Scholarship Program, Health Resources and Services Administration
Co-Principal Investigator (with Jennifer Miller), “Maternal Mortality: Understanding the Impact of Pregnancy-Associated Homicide,” National Violent Death Reporting System New Investigator Research Award, a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and the American Public Health Association
Awards
First Year Advocate Award, K-State First, 2023
Dr. Susan Ariola Bosco Putting Students First Faculty Award, K-State, 2022
Diversity Leadership Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2017
Distinguished Teaching Award, University Studies Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2014
I love kayaking, camping, and spending time with my family.
Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research 336 Hale Library 1117 Mid-Campus Drive North Manhattan, KS 66506
