Academic Advisors - Graduate

Shanna earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Child Studies as well as her Masters Degree in Counseling from Montclair State University. After interning at the Academic Success Center at Montclair State University, where her main focus was with academically at-risk students, and working for several years as a Special Education teacher she decided to pursue her love for Higher Education. 

Shanna enjoys cooking, singing, dancing, playing sports, and spending time with her friends and family.

Michele Bell is the Associate Director of Academic Advising, bringing several years of professional experience in higher education and academic affairs. She holds a Master of Arts in College Student Counseling and Personnel Services from Montclair State University. With a deep understanding of the multifaceted collegiate experience, Michele is dedicated to supporting STEM student success, persistence, and development initiatives.

Dr. Salam Daher is an Assistant Professor in Informatics. Her research focuses on using computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality to improve training, especially in the healthcare simulation domain.
During her PhD she developed a new class of augmented reality patient simulators called Physical-Virtual Patients (PVP). The PVP allows healthcare educators to interact with a life-size simulated patient by providing real-time physical tactile cues (e.g. temperature, pulse), auditory cues (e.g. speech, heart sounds), and rich dynamic visual cues such as facial expressions (e.g. pain, emotions) and changes in appearance (e.g. skin color, wounds).
Her expertise and interests include creating 3D synthetic environments (e.g. virtual campus tour), and modeling interactive 3D virtual humans with animated facial expressions, speech, and body language for the purposes of simulation and training in the education, military, and healthcare domains.
Dr. Daher is a multidisciplinary person who loves to combine computing, with engineering, arts, science, languages, and various disciplines to solve real world problems.