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Dr. Catherine Polydore

PRESENTATIONS

International
Adair, B. M., McBride, T., McFarland, C. A., Polydore, C., Hooper, M., Strauss, R. E. & Cobb, G. (May, 2002). Modeling trophic transport and effects of metals in avian species. Paper presented at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe, Hamburg Germany.

National
Burley, H., Olivarez, A., Polydore, C., Hamman, D. & Boroda, E. (2007, April). Factors influencing the decision of college students to become mentors of small children: preliminary results.Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Adair, B., McBride, T., McFarland, C., Polydore, C., Hooper, M., & Cobb, G. (2001, November). Effects of Mixed Metal Exposure and Accumulation on Passerines Inhabiting the Anaconda Smelter Site in Montana. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's, Baltimore, MD.

McBride, T., Adair, B., Polydore, C., McFarland, C., Cobb, G., Hooper, M. (November, 2001) Metal Exposure and Effects in American Kestrel Nestlings Raised on a Smelter-impacted Superfund Site. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's, Baltimore, MD.

 State and Regional
Polydore, C. L., & Siwatu, K. O. (2007, April). Confronting conflicts in the classroom: Exploring preservice teachers’ self-efficacy and sense of preparedness. Paper presented at the annual Texas Tech University College of Education Research Conference, Lubbock, TX.

Marbley, A., Hull, B. & Polydore, C. (2007, April). Charting the Course of Academic Excellence and Equity: College Students of Color and Technology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas Association for Multicultural Education, College Station, TX.

Polydore, C. L., & Siwatu, K. O. (2007, February). Predicting preservice teachers’ efficacy to resolve conflicts with a culturally diverse, difficult-to-teach student. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Polydore, C. L., & Siwatu, K. O. (2007, February). Executing the practices of culturally responsive teaching: How efficacious are preservice teachers? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Starker, T. V., Polydore, C. L., & Siwatu, K. O. (2006, October). Prospective elementary school teachers’ culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy beliefs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association, Columbus, OH.

Polydore, C. L. (March, 2007). The general well-being of Afro-Caribbean students living in the United States. Paper presented at the annual Black History Month Conference, Texas Tech University.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Marbley, A. F., Hull, W., Polydore, C. L., Bonner, F. A., II, & Burley, H. (2007) African American millennial college students:  Owning the technological Middle Passage. National Association for Student Affairs Professionals Journal, 10 (1) 7-19. (Invited)

Radtke, C.W., Polydore, C. L., Cox, S.B. & Cobb, G.P. (2005). Vapor-phase analysis of isobutyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, n-propyl acetate and their respective alcohols using solid-phase microextraction–gas chromatography with a mass selective detector.  Journal of Chromatography A, 1066, (1-2), 225-230.

Polydore, C., Roundhill, D. M., & Liu, H. (2002). Nucleophile assisted hydrolysis of carbon–oxygen bonds in ethers. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemistry, 186 (22) 65-68.

Adair, B. M., Hooper, M. J., Strauss, R. E., McBride, T. J., Polydore, C. L., McMurry, S. T. & Cobb, G. P. (2001).  Exposure and accumulation of metals in passerines inhabiting the Anaconda smelter site Deer Lodge County, MT. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Knoblauch, S., Koch, H. F., Polydore, C. & Roundhill, D. M. (2001).A computational approach to seeking methylmercury(II) thiolate calix[4]arene hosts for both octasulfur and organosulfur compounds as guests. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 79 (5-6), 977-982.

Manuscripts to be submitted or under review

Siwatu, K. O., Polydore, C. L., & Starker, T. V. (2008, September). Prospective elementary school teachers’ culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy beliefs. Manuscript revised and resubmitted to Multicultural Learning and Teaching.

Siwatu, K. O., & Polydore, C. L. (2007, November). Working with culturally diverse, difficult-to teach students: An exploration of preservice teachers’ perceptions of effective interventions.

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Polydore, C. What is Education? Southwest Digest, March, 2004.
Polydore, C. Loving your child. Southwest Digest, April, 2004.