Rob Cassidy is the Assistant Dean of Academic development at Dawson College. Rob works closely with faculty on various pedagogical issues and initiatives. Additionally, he provides support to department chairs and program coordinators.  When Rob is not at  the college he enjoys spending his time with his family and knitting. Rob is currently researching moral development and the role of social emotions in moral reasoning as well as conceptual change in teachers’ approaches to teaching.

Publications

Blogging about Psychology: neuroscience and education technology

Publications on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

• Cassidy R, Ahmad A, Blom M, Maleki H. Impact of a graduate teaching seminar on approaches to teaching in post-secondary education. Paper presented at the Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education Annual Conference. Montreal, QC (June 2012)
• Cassidy R, Li Y, Buyukkurt M. Peer instruction in psychology lecture classes: The structure of student perceptions. Paper presented at the Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
  Annual Conference. Montreal, QC. (June 2012)
• Buyukkurt M, Li Y, Cassidy R. Using a classroom response system in an introductory business statistics course: Reflections and lessons learned. Paper presented at the Informing Science and Information Technology Education (InSITE) Annual Conference. Montreal, QC. (June 2012)
• Morin D, Thomas J, Cassidy R. (2009). Clickers and Critical Thinking. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2009, pp. 405-409.

Publications in Neuroscience

• Kang Y, Ge Y, Cassidy RM, Lam V, Luo L, Moon KM, Lewis R, Molday RS, Wong RO, Foster LJ, Craig AM. (2104). A combined transgenic proteomic analysis and regulated trafficking of Neuroligin-2. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289, 29350–29364.
• Tsai A*, Cassidy R*, Kromer LF. (2013). EphA7 expression identifies a unique neuronal compartment in the developing rat striatum. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 521, 2663–2679.
• Linhoff MW, Laurén J, Cassidy R, Dobie FA, Nygaard HB, Airaksinen MS, Strittmatter SM, Craig AM. (2009). An unbiased expression screen for synaptogenic proteins identifies the LRRTM protein as synaptic organizers. Neuron, 61(5), 734-749.
• Carlen M, Meletis K, Göritz C, Darsalia V, Evergren E, Tanigaki K, Amendola M, Barnabé-Heider F, Yeung M, Naldini L, Honjo T, Kokaia Z, Shupliakov O, Cassidy R, Lindvall O, Frisen J. (2009). Forebrain ependymal cells are Notch-dependent reservoir cells. Nature Neuroscience,
  12, 259–267.

Education

• PhD, 1999, Neuroscience, Georgetown University
• BSc, 1994,Biology, Georgetown University