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  • CEILS Faculty Orientation – Fall 2025

    Zoom link emailed to RSVPers

    Are you new to UCLA? Are you teaching at UCLA for the first time? Are you teaching a new course or a large-enrollment course for the first time? Do you [...]

  • 2025 CEILS Annual Faculty Workshop – Day 1 of 2

    Hershey Hall 158

    Join any of all of the sessions Sep. 18 and 19, 9am to 3pm, in Hershey Hall 158. RSVP here This year, our annual workshop will focus on supporting you in creatively responding to the changing institutional environment while maintaining your well-being. Our goal is to provide you with resources, concrete strategies, and practices to [...]

  • 2025 CEILS Annual Faculty Workshop – Day 2 of 2

    Hershey Hall 158

    Join any of all of the sessions Sep. 18 and 19, 9am to 3pm, in Hershey Hall 158. RSVP here This year, our annual workshop will focus on supporting you in creatively responding to the changing institutional environment while maintaining your well-being. Our goal is to provide you with resources, concrete strategies, and practices to [...]

  • Learning Assistant (LA) Program Faculty Learning Community – pre-quarter meet-up

    The Undergraduate Learning Assistants (LA) Program in the Sciences at UCLA is an evidence-based, multidisciplinary instructional strategy, in which undergraduate students who have succeeded in a course receive credit to learn how to help the next group of students succeed in that course. It is specifically geared toward large introductory science, engineering and math courses.  LAs thus help facilitate active learning [...]

  • CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education

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

    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 (2025): 020113.  About Journal Club: Are you interested in learning about the latest STEM education research but not sure where to start? Or feeling overwhelmed [...]

  • 2025 CEILS Pop-in Party

    CEILS Office Hershey Hall 230

    Come celebrate our new office space and connect with the team! The Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) invites you to pop-in and check out our new workspace located in Hershey Hall 230. We are excited to welcome you into our space, share what we have been working on, and offer [...]

  • 2025 CEILS Teaching Table for STEM Classrooms

    CEILS Office Hershey Hall 230

    Creating a more inclusive classroom for neurodivergent students About 20-30% of college students are neurodivergent. In this Teaching Tables gathering, we invite you to share your experiences with neurodiversity in and outside the classroom and discuss how we can all better support our neurodivergent students. Resource: Autism Goes to College Podcast. Episode 42: What professors need [...]

  • Supporting Neurodivergent Students: Evidence and Strategies for STEM Faculty – Special Event: UCLA Disability Pride Week

    Zoom link emailed to RSVPers

    Anywhere between 10-30% of college students identify as neurodivergent. Come join us at this Interactive Lecture to learn from Dr. Yasamin Bolourian, Director of Outreach and Dissemination at UCLA Tarjan Center and co-developer of NeuroPREP, a faculty training program on neurodiversity. Dr. Bolourian will share some strategies on how to better support neurodivergent students in [...]

  • UCLA Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – “AI & Mathematical Skills (AIMS) to support student success: from research to implementation in STEM courses at UCLA”, by Yifan Lu, Shanna Shaked, K. Supriya

    430 Portola Plz, Physics and Astronomy Building & Knudsen Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 430 Portola Plz, Physics and Astronomy Building & Knudsen Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    How can we support students in reviewing or learning the necessary math to succeed in college STEM courses, such as introductory physics? We will review some relatively simple promising interventions and our education research study supporting their effectiveness. Inequities in student access to trigonometry and calculus are often associated with racial and socioeconomic privilege, and [...]

  • CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education

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

    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 [...]