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SEMINAR SERIES |
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The University of Delaware's Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Education Program
co-sponsors
presentations by distinguished scientists and science educators each
year. These speakers will provide a forum to promote and provoke
interdisciplinary
discussion about teaching and learning issues in undergraduate science
education. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and high
school
teachers are encouraged to attend.
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Penny Gilmer
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University Seminar: Using Generative Dialog with Students to Improve the Learning Environment in an Undergraduate Classroom. 16 March 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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Todd
Nickle Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Biological and Environmental Science, Mount Royal College, University of Calgary. Workshop: CPR-Calibrated Peer Review and JiTT-Just in Time Teaching 20 June 2007 |
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Terry Platt Professor of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Rochester Workshop: PLTL-Peer-Led Team Learning 14 June 2007 Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education |
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Dee Fink Founding Director, Instructional Development Program, University of Oklahoma, Former President of the Professional and Organizational Network (POD) Seminar: Want your students to learn more? Some new ideas for designing significant learning into your course. 15 June 2007 Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education |
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MaryKay Orgill Assistant Professor for Chemistry Education, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Seminar: Examining Learning from Two Perspectives: Biochemistry Students' Use and Interpretation of Analogies and their Perceptions of Buffers and Buffer Problems" 1 October, 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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James
Spencer Professor of Chemistry, Franklin and Marshal College (retired) Chair of the Educational Testing Service Committee on Advanced Placement Chemistry Seminar: "Possible Changes in the AP Chemistry Curriculum" 12 October 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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Robert J.
Brooker Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota and author of the Genetics Textbook used at the University of Delaware. Seminar: "Transporters and Textbooks" 14 November 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences |
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Glenn
Tesler Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego Seminar: Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals. 11 February 2008 Cosponsored by the Departments of Mathematics and Biological Sciences as part of the HHMI Quantitative Biology Initiative |
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Eric Mazur Professor of Physics, Harvard University Seminars: "Memorization versus understanding: Are we teaching the right thing?" and "How the mind tricks us: visualizations and visual illusions" 10 March 2008 Cosponsored with Sigma Xi and the Departments of Biological Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology. UDaily Article |
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Rick Moog Professor of Chemistry, Project Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Discovery Chemistry Project (MADCP) and is a Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator for the NSF-funded POGIL Project. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA Workshop: Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL): A Student-Centered Approach to Instruction 1:30 - 4:00 PM, 13 March 2009, 205 Brown Laboratory Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education |
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Paticia Marsteller Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director, Hughes Science Initiatives & Center for Science Education Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Program: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Why You? Why Now and How? 1:30 - 4:00 PM, 24 April 2009, 205 Brown Laboratory Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education |
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Stephen O'Brien Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity and Head of the Section of Genetics, National Cancer Institute Seminar: 21st-Century Origins: Retracing Genomic Natural History Across Mammalian Radiations 4 PM, 2 October 2009, 101 Brown Laboratory, Cosponsored by the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, English, and the Darwin Year Series. |
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James D. Murray Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle. Seminars: The Marriage Equation: A Practical Theory for Predicting Divorce and a Scientifically-Based Marital Theory. 3:30 PM, 22 October 2009, 103 Gore Hall, and On the Growth of Brain Tumors: Enhancing Imaging Techniques and Highlighting Inadequacies of Current Therapies. 3:30 PM, 23 October, 103 Gore Hall. Cosponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Quantitative Biology Program. |
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Cheryl Bailey Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Seminars: Active learning in the large classroom: Challenges and Successes. 12:15 PM, 18 October 2010, 243 Wolf Hall, and Soil microbial fingerprints as trace evidence. 4:00 PM, 18 October, 219 Brown Laboratory. Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. |