Faculty Events, Spring 2018
Teaching Graduate Students in Engineering and the Natural Sciences
Monday, February 12, 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center
RSVP to reserve a seat. Lunch is provided.
What is the pedagogy of the graduate classroom? In what way is our teaching of graduate students different from our teaching of undergraduates? How do we mentor graduate students in the lab? What should newly appointed faculty know about the teaching and mentoring of graduate students?
Panelists:
Sigrid M. Adriaenssens, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Kenneth A. Norman, Professor of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Chair, Department of Psychology.
Rodney D. Priestley, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Moderator:
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Dean of the Graduate School, Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy.
Master Class on Teaching with Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies
Wednesday, February 14, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. in McCormick 101
Join us for the inaugural event in this series, which will feature distinguished teachers from across the disciplines.
Speaker:
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies. Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor.
Moderator:
Jill Dolan, Dean of the College. Annan Professor in English. Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Profiles in Innovative Teaching
Tuesday, February 20, 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center
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Elena Fratto and Tala Khanmalek will describe their innovative course, Humanities 302: Medical Story-Worlds, which examined illness, health, and the body through the lens of storytelling. These stories included historical accounts of the spectacle of the American circus freak show, Audre Lorde’s collection of essays The Cancer Journals, and the graphic novel Epileptic by David Beauchard. Highly interactive, the seminar took the form of a “floating classroom,” taking students to spaces across campus for individual classes and guest lectures given by faculty members in various disciplines.
Speakers:
Elena Fratto, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tala Khanmalek, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Just Teaching: Why Inclusive Classrooms and Campuses Matter
Monday, February 26, 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101
In this talk, Professor Tricia Rose will reflect on her own teaching and explore the importance of creating a just and inclusive campus in society. All members of the University community are welcome to attend.
Speaker:
Tricia Rose, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University.
Teaching Data Visualization
Tuesday, March 6, 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center
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How and why do we teach students to graphically represent data or information? What becomes visible to students – what insights are deepened, what relationships are noticed, what patterns are discerned – when they do?
Panelists:
Miguel A. Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology. Professor of Sociology and International Affairs.
Jeffrey D. Himpele, Director, Ethnographic Data Visualization Lab, Anthropology. Lecturer in Anthropology.
Elizabeth M. Roberto, Lecturer in Sociology.
Frederik J. Simons, Professor of Geosciences.
Teaching Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wednesday, March 14, 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center
RSVP to reserve a seat. Lunch is provided.
What is the pedagogy of the graduate classroom? In what way is our teaching of graduate students different from our teaching of undergraduates? How do we construct syllabi for graduate-level courses? What should newly appointed faculty know about the teaching and mentoring of graduate students?
Panelists:
Christopher H. Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Politics.
Katja Guenther, Associate Professor of History.
Sarah Rivett, Associate Professor of English and American Studies.
Profiles in Innovative Teaching, with Corina Tarnita
Monday, April 2, 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in 330 Frist Campus Center
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Corina Tarnita’s innovative freshman seminar, The Equations of Life, focused on the role of models in scientific discovery. Organized around a central question – how can mathematical modeling help illuminate biological processes? – this seminar emphasized student inquiry. Professor Tarnita will describe her development of this seminar, in which students learned to build and analyze models using mathematical tools in order to study evolution and behavior, ecology, and virus dynamics.
Speaker:
Corina E. Tarnita, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Master Class on Teaching with Howard Stone
Tuesday, April 17, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m., location TBA
Join us for the second event in this new series, which will feature distinguished teachers from across the disciplines.
Speaker:
Howard Stone, Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Moderator:
Emily Carter, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science. Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment. Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics.