NAME:
MRS. DONAHUE
SCHOOL:
Churchill Junior High School
CLASS:
Earth Science
SCHOOL PHONE:
732-613-6800, ext.4339
Mrs. Donahue received her BA from Columbia University with a major in
Environmental Conservation and Management and a minor in Psychology. She
went on to receive an MS from Rutgers Graduate School in Environmental
Geography. Mrs. Donahue worked for 15 years in the public and private
sectors in environmental protection, including several years with the New
Jersey State Legislature and several years with the Marine Spill
Response Corporation, the world's largest catastrophic oil spill cleanup
company.
Now in her fourteenth year with East Brunswick eighth graders, Mrs. Donahue
also coached the school's Science Olympiad Team for ten of those years. The
team placed second in the state in 2002, 2003 and 2009, and third in 2004,
2006 and 2007! For the past three years, Mrs. Donahue has supervised new
events that she developed for the state Science Olympiad competition. One of
these, "Brilliant Brains: How do they work?" was created as her end of course
practicum project for a Certificate in Gifted Education from Rutgers
University. Mrs. Donahue also holds certificates in biology, earth science,
and elementary education.
In 2003, Mrs. Donahue participated in Project Lava. She spent two weeks in
Hawaii studying volcanism. In 2006, Mrs. Donahue received a fellowship
through Earthwatch, Inc. to study climate change in Nova Scotia. In 2008, she
was selected to participate in the School of Rock at Texas A & M University.
The program involved the study of deep sea cores to identify climate cycles
in Earth's history. Also that year, Mrs. Donahue was selected by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a Teacher at Sea. She spent time
aboard the NOAA ship Rainier mapping a portion of the coastline of Alaska.
Mrs. Donahue has received a Certificate of Recognition from the Rutgers
Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, for her dedication to
the teaching of science.
To have every student see the utility and fun of science.
To get young ladies interested in science careers.
