HHMI SCIENCE EDUCATION  SEMINAR SERIES

The University of Delaware's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Education Program co-sponsors presentations by distinguished scientists and science educators each year. These speakers will provide a forum to promote and provoke interdisciplinary discussion about teaching and learning issues in undergraduate science education. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and  high school teachers are encouraged to attend.

Penny Gilmer  Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University Seminar: Using Generative Dialog with Students to Improve the Learning Environment in an Undergraduate Classroom. 16 March 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Todd Nickle  Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Biological and Environmental Science, Mount Royal College, University of Calgary. Workshop:  CPR-Calibrated Peer Review and JiTT-Just in Time Teaching 20 June 2007

Terry Platt Professor of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Rochester Workshop: PLTL-Peer-Led Team Learning 14 June 2007 Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education

Dee Fink Founding Director, Instructional Development Program, University of Oklahoma, Former President of the Professional and Organizational Network (POD) Seminar: Want your students to learn more? Some new ideas for designing significant learning into your course. 15 June 2007 Cosponsored by the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education

MaryKay Orgill Assistant Professor for Chemistry Education, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Seminar: Examining Learning from Two Perspectives: Biochemistry Students' Use and Interpretation of Analogies and their Perceptions of Buffers and Buffer Problems" 1 October, 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

James Spencer Professor of Chemistry, Franklin and Marshal College (retired) Chair of the Educational Testing Service Committee on Advanced Placement Chemistry Seminar: "Possible Changes in the AP Chemistry Curriculum" 12 October 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Robert J. Brooker Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota and author of the Genetics Textbook used at the University of Delaware. Seminar: "Transporters and Textbooks" 14 November 2007 Cosponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences

Glenn Tesler Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego Seminar: Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals. 11 February 2008 Cosponsored by the Departments of Mathematics and Biological Sciences as part of the HHMI Quantitative Biology Initiative

Eric Mazur Professor of Physics, Harvard University Seminars: "Memorization versus understanding: Are we teaching the right thing?" and "How the mind tricks us: visualizations and visual illusions" 10 March 2008 Cosponsored with Sigma Xi and the Departments of Biological Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology. UDaily Article