Dear Colleagues, I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s [...]
Benjamin Hà October 18 | 3:00 – 4:00pm PDT Interdisciplinary approaches to advancing anti-racist pedagogies in biology higher education Register Here This talk will review the course structure and pedagogical strategies [...]
Manuel Ramirez October 25 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm PDT Academic Experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color at UCLA Register here Using qualitative interview data from the UCLA LGBTQ+ [...]
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Jan 23: Melissa Paquette-Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor, UCLA Department of Psychology The Effects of Collaborative Practice Testing on Memory for Course Content in [...]
Save the Dates for Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Jan 30: Peter Fisher, PhD graduate, Social Psychology, UCLA Leveraging Dynamic Social Norms to Motivate Conversations on Difficult [...]
Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings! RSVP Here Feb 6: Britney Robinson (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator, UCLA Physical Sciences Division) & JoAnn Roberts (Associate Director for JEDI in Teaching, [...]
Paper we will discuss on Oct 1: Griston, Molly, and Bethany R. Wilcox. “Motivating reflection in problem solving: Homework corrections in upper-division physics courses.” Physical Review Physics Education Research 21.2 [...]
Paper we will discuss on Nov 5: Costello, Robin A., et al. “Highlighting Counterstereotypical Scientists in Undergraduate Life Science Courses.” CBE—Life Sciences Education 24.2 (2025): es1. About Journal Club: Are [...]
Paper we will discuss on Jan 21: Chrin, S. R., & Nardo, J. E. “(Dis) Ability and Accommodation: Exploring the Accessibility of General and Organic Chemistry Course Designs”. Journal of [...]
Feb 4 - Teaching-as-Research Lightning Talks: Through the CIRTL program, graduate students and postdocs learn how to apply their research skills to their classrooms. At the February journal club meeting, [...]