SEIRI would like to welcome Dr. Janice Blum as the Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at IUPUI. We look forward to working with Dr. Blum and continuing our collaborations with the OVCR and forging new relationships with the Office of Graduate Education.
NSF has awarded IUPUI an ADVANCE grant designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions. The IUPUI ADVANCE Adaptation project will improve institutional climate and promote inclusive leadership practices to address inequities in the representation, retention, and advancement of women, particularly women of color, in the STEM faculty. The project team includes: Dr. Kathy Johnson (PI), Dr. Gina Gibau (Co-PI), Dr. Evava Pietri (Co-PI), Dr. Peggy Stockdale (Co-PI), and Howard Mzumara (Evaluator); from SEIRI: Dr. Pratibha Varma-Nelson (Co-PI) and Virginia Rhodes (Program Co-ordinator). For more information, click here.
SEIRI welcomes Dr. Yujin Lee, Post Doctoral Researcher, as she joins our office. She comes to us from Texas A&M University.
SEIRI would like to congratulate Dr. Anthony Chase, on his new faculty position with the Department of Occupational Therapy. We are very happy to say that Dr. Chase will be collaborating with the institute as a SEIRI Fellow.
SEIRI hosted the 8th Annual Conference of the PLTL International Society on the IUPUI Campus, June 6-8, 2019. We had 60 peer leaders among 153 attendees. Our plenary speakers came from UC Berkeley, University of Miami, University of Montana, and IUPUI. We had representation from 40 institutions. The attendees came from 16 states, one foreign country, and one US territory. Congratulations to all IUPUI faculty and students who participated in the conference.
Dr. Justin Hess started his new position as Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, August 12th. We wish him well.
SEIRI is pleased to have a very esteemed group of speakers for the fall of 2019!
Thomas Holme - Iowa State University, Morrill Professor of Chemistry
Thomas Holme
Dr. Thomas Holme is a Morrill Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from Loras College and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rice University. His research group conducts studies in both chemistry education research and human-computer interaction. He served as the Director of the American Chemical Society Examinations Institute from 2002-2015 and will become Editor in chief of the Journal of Chemical Education in January 1, 2020. He is a Fellow of the ACS and of AAAS. He has been a Fullbright Scholar and the recipient of the Helen Free Award for Chemistry Outreach and the Pimentel Award from ACS.
Title: Gauging chemistry learning by measuring more than the final answer. Date: Wednesday, 9/18/19 Time and Place: 4:10 pm-5:30 pm, LD 010 For more information, click here.
James Pellegrino - University of Illinois at Chicago, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Education
James Pellegrino
Dr. James Pellegrino is the Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as Co-director of UIC's interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute. Dr. Pellegrino's research and development interests focus on children's and adult's thinking and learning and the implications of cognitive research and theory for assessment and instructional practice. He is an elected lifetime member of the National Academy of Education and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Title: Educational R, D & I - Why Evaluation Matters and How to Make it Effective Date: Tuesday, 10/15/19 Time and Place: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, Lilly Auditorium, University Library For more information, click here.
Geraldine Richmond - University of Oregon, Presidential Chair in Science and Professor Chemistry
Geraldine Richmond
Dr. Geraldine Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. A native of Kansas, she received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.Her educational efforts have focused largely on introductory chemistry and science literacy courses as well as being the director of several University of Oregon undergraduate research programs. Dr. Richmond is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Awards for her scientific accomplishments include the National Medal of Science and the 2018 Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society.
Title: The Surface of Water: Its Role in Environmentally Important Processes (sponsored by the Dr. Frank J. Welcher Lectureship, IUPUI School of Science) Date: Thursday, 11/21/19 Time and Place: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Lilly Auditorium, University Library For more information, click here.
Title: The Art of Effective Negotiation Date: Friday, 11/22/19 Time and Place: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, CE 450A, Campus Center For more information, click here.
NSF WORKSHOP
SEIRI will host an NSF Workshop with Karen Keene, an NSF program officer. She will present and lead an interactive discussion on ways to improve proposal grant writing abilities and achieve the best possible results when applying to the NSF DUE/EHR programs. More information to come.
Date: Monday, 11/4/2019 Time and Place: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, University Tower Ballroom For more information, click here.
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning Lang, James M. (2016) In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference. The book argues that we can look at a small set of principles from the learning sciences in order to create incremental--but very powerful--changes in how we help students learn. For more information, click here
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