SEIRI May 2019 Newsletter

We are sorry that we will be saying good-bye to Justin Hess, our current Assistant Director. Justin will be joining Purdue University as Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education. We will miss Justin very much, but wish him well in his new position.

We also must say good-bye and good luck to Dr. Simon Atkinson, Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dr. Simon Rhodes, Dean of School of Science. Thank you to both of them for their support and we wish them well.

SEIRI is excited to welcome two new people to our office. Yujin Lee will join us as a SEIRI Post Doctoral Fellow, and Virginia Rhodes will continue with us as a Visiting Research Associate. Yujin Lee starts with SEIRI in June. She comes to us from Texas A&M with her PhD in Mathematics Education. Yujin did her undergraduate work in her home of South Korea. We look forward to having Yujin join the SEIRI staff.

Virginia Rhodes starts in her new position with SEIRI in May. Virginia received her BA in Psychology from Notre Dame and will receive her MS in Industrial Organizational Psychology from IUPUI this May. Virginia has been working as a Research Assistant at SEIRI for the past two years and we are excited for her to continue her work with us.

Submission deadline May 13, 2019
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Thursday - Saturday, June 6-8, 2019
Pre-Conference Workshop - Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Place: IUPUI, IT Building
Hosted by: Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, Founding Executive Director of SEIRI For more information, click here

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.

Date: Tuesday, 10/15/19
Time and Place: tbd

Dr. Geraldine Richmond is the Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. Her research using laser spectroscopy and computational methods focuses on understanding environmentally and technologically important processes that occur at liquid surfaces. Richmond is the founding and current director of COACh, a grass-roots organization formed in 1998 that has helped over 20,000 women scientists and engineers in career advancement in the US and in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Date: Friday, 11/22/19
Time and Place: tbd

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Partnerships for Innovation Full Proposal Deadline: July 10, 2019 For more information, click here

CAREER: Faculty Early Career Development Program
Full Proposal Deadline: July 17, 2019
Dates vary by directorate.
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AISL EHR: Advancing Informal STEM Learning
Limited Proposal Deadline: September 25, 2019
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ASCB Education-Focused Regional Meeting
Monday, May 13, 2019
University of Georgia, Athens
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2019 NSEC National Conference May 31st-June 2nd, 2019
Omaha, Nebraska
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Learning Theories and Theorists Boettcher, Judith V. and Conrad, Rita Marie. (2016). Teaching online: the big picture. In The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips. Second edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. This article was made accessible online by Stanford University through Tomorrow's Professor. For more information, click here

Thank you for reading our newsletter. Feel free to contact us with suggestions or ideas for future issues and comments. If you have speakers in STEM education, please let us know and we will be glad to include them. Please check our website at seiri.iupui.edu for more information.