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Tama Hasson and Michael Alfaro
Among the Winners for the 2016 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awards
The Academic Senate and its Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO) have announced the recipients of the 2015-2016 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Awards. Each year, CODEO honors one undergraduate student, one graduate student, one staff and four faculty members for their contributions to furthering a diverse, impartial, and inclusive environment at UCLA.
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Michael Alfaro
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Faculty Student Development DEI Award Recipients:
Professor Michael Alfaro, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is this year’s Faculty Student Development DEI Award recipient. In the Spring of 2014, Professor Alfaro was one of the campus leaders who was tasked with developing a proposal to establish a diversity course requirement for undergraduate students in the College of Letters and Science. The proposal articulated the goals of the diversity requirement at UCLA as well as set criteria for courses satisfying the requirement, including numerous community-based courses. His leadership in this area contributed to the successful passage of the diversity requirement. Professor Alfaro also chaired the Diversity Implementation Committee that was charged with developing a process for syllabi evaluation, determining demand, and existing capacity for the new requirement and identifying additional resources required to mount the requirement for Fall 2015. He currently chairs both the Diversity Initiative Steering Committee and the Diversity Requirement ad hoc Committee.
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Tama Hasson
Integrative Biology and Physiology; Undergraduate Research Center - Sciences
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Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award Recipient:
Tama Hasson, the Academic Director of the Program for Excellence in Education and Research in the Sciences (PEERS), is this year’s Staff DEI Award recipient. She has personally worked with and mentored more than 1000 students through a variety of programs at UCLA, all of which emphasize the success of students from underserved backgrounds. Dr. Hasson also played a leading role in the development of the curriculum that prepares these students to succeed in majors where they often are not successful. Since arriving at UCLA she has obtained at least 10 grants to support underserved and minority students to achieve educational and research excellence.
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CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education Research
Fridays from 2:00 – 3:00 PM Location:
1100 TSLB
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About Journal Club: CEILS members explore relevant education literature in more depth and develop greater understanding of assessment techniques and data analysis. Presenters select a paper and lead a discussion about how education researchers have documented the relationship between effective teaching practices and their impact on student learning, knowledge retention, and persistence in STEM majors. Faculty, graduate students, and post-docs are welcome to participate!
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Upcoming Journal Club Topics:
- April 22, 2016 | Stanley Lo, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Depts. of Cell and Developmental Biology and Mathematics and Science Education at UCSD, will be presenting a seminar, “When active learning fails: How faculty beliefs and intentions inform their teaching and influence student outcomes.” . *Stanley Lo will join the CEILS community for happy hour at Palamino in Westwood at 5pm, following this presentation. Please join us!
- April 29, 2016 | No Meeting Today
- May 6, 2016 | Tony Friscia, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology will present the following paper: J. Kibble and T. Johnson (2011) “Are faculty predictions or item taxonomies useful for estimating the outcome of multiple-choice examinations?” Adv Physiol Educ 35(4): 396-401
- May 13, 2016 | William Gehring, Professor of Psychology, UCLA Visiting Scholar from University of Michigan. *There will be a happy hour in Westwood at 4:30p, following this presentation.
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[Webinar] Evidence Matters: Using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Tell the Story of Curriculum Development
CEILS will host a viewing of this webinar on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Please join us in 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building from 9-10am for the live stream. RSVP by sending a quick email to media@ceils.ucla.edu and let us know that you plan to attend.
Description: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a form of research that involves a systematic investigation of teaching practices and student learning followed by peer review and public sharing of the work for others to build upon. This webinar begins with an overview of the key aspects of SoTL, situating it within a spectrum of scholarly work on teaching and learning. Two in-depth case studies, one involving service learning and the other involving sustainability, illustrate how SoTL can contribute to the process of developing, assessing, and disseminating curriculum. One particular SoTL component highlighted in this webinar is the role literature searches play in both shaping and refining questions as well as providing the background context required for publication. Resources for undertaking a SoTL investigation are made available to all participants.
Hosts:
Dr. Jackie Dewar
(Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University), Dr. Matthew Siniawski
(Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Loyola Marymount University), and
Dr. Rikki Wagstrom
(Associate Professor of Mathematics, Metropolitan State University).
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Research Talk and Curricular Development Seminar
April Hill, University of Richmond
Monday, May 16, 2016; 12-1pm PST, Molecular Sciences 3440, UCLA
Tuesday, May 17, 2016; 4-5pm PST, BSRB 154, UCLA
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Professor April Hill
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Richmond
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*** Dr. April Hill will also deliver a plenary address at the 2016 SENCER Summer Institute, titled “SENCER, Transforming STEM for Majors, and it's About Time, Too,” This year’s Institute will be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois July 28 - August 1, 2016. Learn more...
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UCLA Faculty Course Innovation Workshop on Climate Change and Sustainability
May 20, 2016 | 10am - 4pm, Annenberg Community Beach House
In 2015, the University of California launched the Carbon Neutrality Initiative, committing our campuses to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. To help this ambitious initiative's success, each campus received funding to design and implement a spring 2016 faculty curriculum workshop and follow-on fall 2016 networking event. The UCLA workshop aspires to build connections between climate change education and teaching across disciplines throughout campus, including in areas such as race, ethnicity and gender, cultural history, chemistry, math, physics, psychology, medicine, engineering, media and communication, literature, the expressive arts, and public policy.
Space is limited to 20 participants, with priority given to faculty members who teach large courses and/or courses in which climate change and other sustainability topics are not already a focus.
Please apply by April 29, 2016.
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Coming Soon (Register Now, Save the Dates)...
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13th Annual Teaching Professor Conference
June 3-5, 2016
, Renaissance Washington Hotel - Washington, DC
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First Annual Higher Education Flipped Learning Conference
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2016 SMTI/NSEC National Conference - Center Roles in Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
June 9-10, 2016
, Hotel Contessa in San Antonio
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June 2016 Engineering Community Engagement Workshop
An exciting opportunity to learn about integrating community-inspired design and community engagement experiences into your engineering curriculum.
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International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research (BEERS)
College of Charleston, Oct. 14-16, 2016
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Problem-Based Learning (PBL) 2016 International Conference
September 8-10, 2016, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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New Report: Building a Better Future STEM Faculty: How Teaching Development Programs Can Improve Undergraduate Education
The
Longitudinal Study of Future STEM Scholars
was conducted by a team led by Dr. Mark Connolly at the University of Wisconsin. It examined the effects of teaching-focused professional development programs used by STEM doctoral students with academic aspirations (future STEM faculty). Over 2,000 doctoral students from three research universities (
ASU
,
UW
,
UW
), were surveyed 3 times over 5 years.
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Q&A: STEM Career Advice From NASA's Chief Scientist
The chief scientist at NASA wasn't a math wunderkind.
"I struggled," Ellen Stofan says. "You don't have to be an A-plus math student. If you're a B/C student in math, people think you can't be an engineer; that's just not true."
Stofan, who works on everything from the agency's efforts to put humans on Mars to better understanding climate change to studying volcanoes on Venus, spoke at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in the nation's capital Sunday. Continue to article...
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A Nobel Laureate's Education Plea: Revolutionize Teaching
This short audio piece discusses the efforts of Professor of Physics at Stanford University, Carl Weiman to raise awareness of the importance of using a scientific and data-driven approach to understanding the impact of different styles of teaching, specifically traditional lecture compared to more active learning classroom pedagogies. The story also touches on some of the supports needed at the institutional level to support changes in the classroom.
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CIRTL Cross-Network Courses for Spring 2016
Opening for registration on April 11 - May 9!
Every semester, CIRTL offers a variety of online courses that leverage the expertise and diversity of faculty from across its 21-university network. As courses are finalized, the Upcoming Courses page displays the details of each new semester's courses for registration.
- Advancing Learning through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching
Learn about evidence-based instruction through CIRTL's MOOC
- Integrating Creativity, Innovation, and Design Thinking in STEM Courses
Learn how you can incorporate hands-on creativity into your STEM classroom
- Basics of Online Learning and Teaching
Strengthen your teaching by incorporating technology into your STEM classroom
Workshop: Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Join CIRTL's
Developing a Teaching Philosophy workshop on Wednesday, April 27, from 11:30AM-1:00PM Pacific Time
and learn how to draft and refine your own teaching philosophy.
Click here to register for this workshop.
CIRTLCast Series Livestream
The CIRTL network offers a
series of webinars
as part of their programming to support graduate students, post-docs, and faculty in the STEM disciplines.
Please RSVP
by sending a quick email to
media@ceils.ucla.edu
and let us know that you plan to attend.
- April 27, 2016: Leveraging Authentic Teaching and Research Practices for Successful NSF and NIH Proposals
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Professional Development
Post-Docs & Graduate Students
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Preparing Future Faculty Seminar: Non-Traditional Teaching Careers
SPRING 2016
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About the PFF Program:
This professional development program is designed to help graduate students and postdocs in STEM fields understand and experience the three key activities—research, teaching, and service—that define an academic career and to guide them in developing an informed position on the responsibilities that faculty members carry in higher education.
This quarter two UCLA PhD alumni, who have chosen non-traditional teaching careers, will participate in our Preparing Future Faculty seminar series. If you are interested in thinking about different types of career paths, we invite you to attend these informal discussions, hear their stories, and ask them questions.
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Tuesday May 3, from 11:30am -1:00pm.
Young Hall 2033
Rebecca M. Broyer
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry - 2009
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Southern California
Contact: Arlene Russell (Chem & Biochem) for additional information.
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The EnCorps STEM Teaching Fellowship - alternative pathway to (paid) teaching or volunteer tutoring
The EnCorps STEM Teachers Program Fellowship (www.encorps.org) is a way for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals to explore if teaching at the middle or high school level might be a potential career pathway. Choose from two programs: transition to teaching or volunteer tutoring. Currently there is a severe shortage of high-quality teachers and enduring gaps in STEM access for high-need students and communities. EnCorps transitions STEM professionals into teaching with opportunities to tutor or guest teach, professional development and training, scholarships for obtaining a teaching credential, and access to our network of schools. Find out more by joining one of our monthly free EnCorps 101 webinars at http://encorps.org/webinar/ or inspire tomorrow's innovators, engineers and scientists by applying online at www.encorps.org/apply.
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Biomedical & Life Science Graduate Student Professional Development Workshops – Spring 2016
RSVP for any of these events at http://www.uclagradprofdev.eventbrite.com
- Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - Exploring Careers in... University Administration
8:30-10:30a; CNSI Auditorium
- Monday, May 23, 2016 - Nailing the First Impression: How to Succeed in The Interview
12:00pm, Career Center Room 200
- Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - Exploring Careers in... Social Entrepreneurship
8:30-10:30am, CNSI Auditorium
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2016-2017 OID Instructional Improvement Program Grants
The Office of Instructional Development is currently taking proposals for the spring 2016 period. The Instructional Improvement Grant Program supports faculty, department, and college initiated projects designed to support curricular experimentation and development, and to enhance instructional improvement of undergraduate offerings. Proposals should address the specific needs of an undergraduate course or curriculum and explicate an appropriate and cost-effective response to a clearly defined pedagogical problem. You can view the 2016-2017 major Instructional Improvement Program request for proposals and application packet at
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/grants/iip
.
All proposals for the Spring 2016 grant period must be submitted to
iip@ucla.edu
no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
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Center for Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences | UCLA
For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at
www.ceils.ucla.edu
or stop by the CEILS office in Hershey Hall (Rooms 122 & 126).
If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list, please send your request to
media@ceils.ucla.edu
.
Please note, this Bi-Monthly Newsletter is circulated through many departments listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are intended for CEILS mailing list recipients only. Thanks!
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