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Congratulations to Faculty Members in the Life Sciences!
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UCLA 2015-2016 Life Sciences Excellence Awards Recipients
On Monday, April 4th faculty, staff, friends and family gathered in Hershey Hall to celebrate and award Life Sciences faculty for their contributions to research, teaching, and the community of the University.
- Excellence in Research, Full Professor – Blaire Van Valkenburgh
- Excellence in Research, Associate Professor – April Pyle
- Excellence in Research, Associate Professor – Grace Xiao
- Excellence in Research, Assistant Professor – Amy Rowat
- Excellence in Promoting Diversity & Inclusion – Christina Palmer
- Excellence in Educational Innovation (Tenured Faculty) – Steve Smale
- Excellence in Educational Innovation (Lecturer, Acad. Admin, or Acad. Coord.) – Bill Grisham
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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 will 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!
New for April – Monthly Social Hour following CEILS Journal Club! Following Nadia’s presentation on April 15th, we would like to invite members of the CEILS community to our first social hour. Please join us at 4:30pm at Palomino in Westwood for drinks and appetizers.
Visiting Speaker! Stanley Lo will be presenting at Journal Club on April 22. Learn more about his upcoming talk.
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Upcoming Journal Club Topics in April:
- April 8, 2016 | No Meeting Today
- April 15, 2016 | Nadia Sellami, Life Science Core DBER Fellow, will present the following paper: K. Bonney (2015) “Case Study Method Improves Student Performance and Perceptions of Learning Gains.” J. Microbiol Biol Educ. 16(1): 21-28.
- 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.” *Please see the flyer here.
- April 29, 2016 | No Meeting Today
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Workshop on Service-Learning in Undergraduate Geosciences
April 20-21, 2016, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
While service-learning is emerging as one way to give undergraduate students hands-on opportunities, there have been few systematic efforts to examine how service-learning is being used in the geosciences and whether it has a positive impact on students. In addition, it is unclear how well research on service-learning programs in other disciplines has been leveraged to inform the design of geoscience service-learning programs. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussion on topics such as designing service-learning courses, assessing service-learning courses, research on service-learning, and providing training and support to faculty teaching service-learning courses. A summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be published later in 2016.
Register today as space is limited. Click here for more information on this project.
If you have questions about the event, please feel free to contact
Miriam Scheiber
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West Coast Summer Institute, Evergreen State College,
June 13-17, 2016
CEILS highly recommends the Summer Institute experience for faculty looking for a comprehensive experience to enhance their course design and teaching.
The theme for the Summer Institutes is "scientific teaching." Participants learn practical strategies for enhancing student learning. The institutes model the scientific teaching principles of active learning, assessment, and inclusive teaching, which are integrated into all aspects of the program schedule. Activities include reflective writing, planning, reading, researching, discussing teaching methods and philosophy, interactive presentations, and developing teaching materials. By the end of an institute, participants will have observed, evaluated, and collected a portfolio of innovative teaching approaches and instructional materials that are ready to be adopted and adapted to their own teaching environments.
For more information visit the
Summer Institutes website.
If you are interested in attending the Summer Institute, please
contact CEILS Director Erin Sanders
at erins@ceils.ucla.edu
, as she is organizing the team for this year.
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Broadening Participation: Summit 2016
Link to more information
April 20-22, 2016 | University of Pennsylvania
A full docket is planned with exciting speakers from the National Science Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, and conference tracks including the theme of broadening participation, professional development, and time set aside for networking.
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Coming Soon (Register Now, Save the Dates)...
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[Webinar] Evidence Matters: Using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Tell the Story of Curriculum Development
CEILS will be hosting a viewing of this webinar on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Please join us in 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building from 9-10a for the live stream. RSVP by sending a quick email to media@ceils.ucla.edu and letting us know 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 by 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
Click the links above to view full details.
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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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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
By: Devin G. Pope, Joseph Price and
Justin Wolfers
Abstract:
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study's original sample, but prior to the media coverage. Subsequent to the media coverage though, the bias completely disappeared. We examine potential mechanisms that may have produced this result and find that the most likely explanation is that upon becoming aware of their biases, individual referees changed their decision-making process. These results suggest that raising awareness of even subtle forms of bias can bring about meaningful change.
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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 13 and 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.
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CIRTLCast Livestream Weekly, Wednesday Mornings through April 27.
The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) network offers a
series of webinars
as part of their programming to support graduate students, post-docs, and faculty in the STEM disciplines.
CEILS will be live-streaming these webinars in
Hershey Hall 168 each Wednesday Morning from 10-11:30am PST
. The webinar ends at 11am, with time for discussion afterwards. Join us!
Please RSVP
by sending a quick email to
media@ceils.ucla.edu
and letting us know which sessions you plan to attend
- April 13, 2016: Preparing for the College Students of Tomorrow in Engineering
- April 20, 2016: Improving Outcomes in Chemistry Through Holistic Instruction for First-Generation, Low-income, and Minority Students
- 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 April 19, from 11:30am -1:00pm.
Young Hall 2033
Perry Roth-Johnson
PhD Aerospace Engineering - 2015
Air and Space Exhibit Researcher
California Science Center
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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Biomedical & Life Science Graduate Student Professional Development Workshops – Spring 2016
RSVP for any of these events at http://www.uclagradprofdev.eventbrite.com
- April 15, 2016 - STEM Career Planning with MyIDP: Workgroup Pt2
Career Center, Room 200
- April 19, 2016 – Exploring Careers in Contract Research Organizations for Graduate Students & Post-Docs, CNSI Auditorium 8:30am – 10:30am.
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Distilling Your Message with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
April 20, 2016 - 1:00-3:00pm PDT, CNSI Auditorium
General principles in how to craft short, clear, conversational statements, intelligible to non-scientists, about what you do and why it matters. Session consists of an interactive presentation and discussion on interpreting technical material using examples and analogies to illuminate unfamiliar concepts to your audience. The plenary will address problems and solutions in public interactions as well as peer-to-peer communication. Participants will practice clarity in speaking to non-scientists about their work and may be actively engaged in improv exercises or explaining scientific material to lay people.
This session is ideal for graduate students and postdocs in STEM and Social Sciences.
Please register here.
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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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Mini-grants available to revamp course materials
Are you considering revamping your course materials? Apply for the UCLA Library's
Affordable Course Materials Initiative
, and Library experts will provide resources and assistance.
This initiative incentivizes instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials, such as open-access scholarly resources, Library-licensed and owned resources, reformatted special collections items, and learning objects and texts that you create yourself.
Applications are now being accepted for courses to be taught during the 2016-17 academic year.
The deadline for Fall 2016 courses is Friday, April 15.
The
application form and requirements
are available online.
Award categories are:
- $1,000 awards for courses with enrollments of fewer than two hundred students
- $2,500 awards for courses with enrollments of two hundred or more students.
- Collection development awards to build or enhance library collections
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Supports innovative multicampus research collaborations that strengthen UC's position as a leading public research university. Awards are intended to facilitate outstanding research and cutting edge discoveries that can:
- Advance research in areas important to UC, California, its people, environment and economy
- Increase UC's competitiveness in attracting faculty, graduate students, awards and honors, and extramural funding
- Support innovative graduate student research at UC
Open to UC faculty and researchers across all fields of research and scholarship. Proposals require collaboration among at least three UC campuses and should go beyond individual PI-driven projects to launch pioneering research in thematic, multidisciplinary, or inter-disciplinary areas. A
pplicants may apply for 2-Year Planning/Pilot Awards or Multi-Year Program Awards.
FUNDING: Approximately $6 million annually is available across all awards and award types
DEADLINE FOR LETTERS OF INTENT:
APRIL 28, 2016, 12 NOON
See the
APPLICATION INFORMATION
page to access the RFP and more information.
Please note: This competition cycle, highly meritorious proposals will be considered for recognition as recipients of the President's Research Catalyst Award. No separate application is required for consideration, and selection of recipients for the Catalyst Award is at the discretion of the UC President.
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Director of Assessment at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
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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
. Thanks!
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