Past Events

Matthew Kloser is an Associate Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the founding director of the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. His talk was titled "Is Biology Education Evolving? Critiquing Three Cases of High School and Undergraduate Biology Education Reform." 

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Valerie Otero is a professor of science education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her talk was titled "The Learning Assistant Model as a Catalyst for Instructional Improvement and Institutional Change." 

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Blending chemical and mathematical knowledge as solve problems in chemical kinetics Answering recent calls for discipline-based education research and interdisciplinary work

Christa Haverly is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Her talk was titled "Developing Urban Elementary Teachers' Responsiveness to Students' Scientific Sense-Making."

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Kevin Haudek is an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. His talk was titled "Using Automated Analysis to Reveal Student Thinking."

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Marilyne Stains is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her talk was titled "Important of Characterizing STEM Faculty Members' Instructional Mindsets and Practices in an Era of Instructional Transformation." 

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