SCHEDULE FOR CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

Saturday, May 19, 2007

9:00-9:30       
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Engineering II – Room 138

9:30-9:45       
Welcome & Conference Overview
Andrew Grosovsky, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Ellen Wartella, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost
Donald Cooksey, Interim Dean College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences
Engineering II – Room 138

9:45 - 10:30   
OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER –  Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, Director of the Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
“Predicting Transition and Adjustment to College: Minority Science Students' First Year of College”
Engineering II – Room 138

10:30 – 11:15
Dr. Michael Erickson, UC Riverside – Engaging Students in Learning: What Cognitive Science Teaches about What Turns Learning On (and Off)"
Engineering II – Room 138

11:15-12:00
Dr. William S. Bradshaw, Brigham Young University & Dr. John Bell, Brigham Young University
"Cloning the Professor: An Alternative to Poor Teaching in a Large Course” 
        Step 1: The Formative Classroom.
Engineering II – Room 138

In preparation for this session workshop, the presenters ask you to read the attached pages from a cell biology textbook.  The places to begin and end the reading are marked with a PDF note.  This activity will optimize the benefit from participation in these sessions.

Click here to download.

12:00-12:15
BREAK/LUNCH
Engineering II – 2nd Floor Courtyard

12:15-1:15   
Noon Breakout sessions

1)  Preparing students for life after graduation:  Graduate School, Professional School, Careers in the Life Sciences

• Alicia Chavez, Honors Program
• Darleen DeMason, Professor of Botany & Plant Sciences
• Kimberly Hammond, Associate Dean, Graduate Division
• Darryl Stevens, Career Center
• Jolinda Traugh, Professor of Biochemistry
• Kiril Tomoff, Education Abroad Program

2)  Learning Communities: Effective uses for supporting student learning, and assessing their impact on student learning outcomes

• Teresa Cofield, Medical Scholars
• Kathryn Jones, University Honors
• Leonard Mueller, Chemistry
• Patsy Oppenheim, Undergraduate Education
• Barbra Wallace, CNAS Learning Communities

Engineering II – Room 206

3)  Scientific Teaching: Incorporating Assessment into Lectures as a Component of Active Learning

• Richard Cardullo, Biology
• Morris Maduro, Biology
• Leo Schouest, Computing & Communications

1:30 – 2:15
Dr. William S. Bradshaw, Brigham Young University & Dr. John Bell, Brigham Young University
"Cloning the Professor: An Alternative to Poor Teaching in a Large Course” 
Step 2: Dispersing the Clones.
Engineering II – Room 138

In preparation for this session workshop, the presenters ask you to read the attached pages from a cell biology textbook.  The places to begin and end the reading are marked with a PDF note.  This activity will optimize the benefit from participation in these sessions.

Click here to download.

2:15 – 3:00     
Dr. Robert Pozos, San Diego State University
"Web based strategies to enhance student engagement which can lead to more diverse students entering graduate school"
Engineering II – Room 138         

3:00– 3:45     
Dr. James E. Hamos, Program Director, Math and Science Partnership Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
"Transforming Education or Transformative Education?"
Engineering II – Room 138.

3:45
Reception
Engineering II – 2nd Floor Courtyard