• Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings

    1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM [...]

  • “When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities

    Zoom

    “When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities  Talk Description: High-impact practices are educational experiences, such as undergraduate research experiences, that can support undergraduate student retention. This talk will share findings from a recent national survey, exploring how the extracurricular nature of [...]

  • “A Justice Partnership for Course Innovation” featuring Siobhan Braybrook and the Life Sciences Liberation Team | Ed Talks & Happy Hour

    UCLA

    In this project, we are working to imagine and create a more liberated introductory life science classroom. We chose to take a radical path to inclusive course design by engaging in an authentic and meaningful approach we call a Justice Partnership; our team, Life Sciences Liberation (‘LS Lib’), centers and empowers Black womxn-identifying students. Our [...]

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 1 – 3

    Terasaki Life Sciences 5100

    Heather McGhee Book Talk & CEILS Book Club 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 [...]

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 4 & 5

    Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

    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 [...]

  •  The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Book Club, Chapters 6 – 8

    Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

    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 [...]

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Book Club, Chapters 9 & 10

    Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

    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 [...]

  • An Evening with Heather McGhee: Exploring Racism’s Price Tag and Building a Prosperous Future Together

    California NanoSystems Institute

    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 [...]

  • Ed Talks @CEILS: Interdisciplinary approaches to advancing anti-racist pedagogies in biology higher education

    Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

    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 applied when teaching an undergraduate seminar titled “The History and Racism of Biology Research.” While this course covered broad biology disciplines, many of the strategies [...]

  • Ed Talks @CEILS: Academic Experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color at UCLA

    Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

    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+ Campus Resource Center’s 2023 QTBIPOC Student Experiences Project, we highlight the unique experiences that our QTBIPOC students face on our campus and how to address [...]