Spring Quarter 2024

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings

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 education research are welcome to participate.

The talks will be from 2-2:50 pm in Terasaki Life Sciences Rm 1100 (Zoom Option Available). 

Happy Hour after Lightning TAR session on May 16.

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MAY 2, 2024

Enacting Inclusive Science in STEMM Teaching and Training

Integration of diversity in scientific training, teaching, and inquiry is pivotal to developing an inclusive approach to science. In this talk, Dr. Ana Romero shares research findings on culturally responsive practices used to teach and train undergraduate students in STEMM from a study on the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) initiative.

About the presenter: Ana Romero is an Associate Project Scientist for the NIH-funded Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC) and the Assistant Director of the Student Affairs graduate program in the Department of Education at UCLA. Her research examines the impact of STEMM interventions on students’ success and pathways, organizational change in STEMM equity initiatives, the higher education work environment, and campus climate issues. Ana completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA, M.A. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Sociology at UCLA.

Ana Romero, PhD
Associate Project Scientist, NIH Coordination and Evaluation Center Assistant Director, Master of Education in Student Affairs Program

MAY 9, 2024

Generative AI in 2024: Exploring Emerging Practices in Teaching and Learning

It has been less than two years since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, but rapid development of new AI tools has led to adoption by millions of users around the world, with full applications still unknown and untested. In this talk we will take a look at some of the emerging practices in higher education for teaching and learning that instructors can integrate into STEM courses here at UCLA and discuss potential future impacts as well as concerns related to AI.

About the presenter: Jess Gregg is a Senior Associate Director at the Center for Education and Innovation in the Sciences (CEILS). She collaborates with instructors and units across campus to develop and implement programs and initiatives that support student learning and reduce inequities in educational outcomes for the Life and Physical Sciences.  

 

JESS GREGG, MA, EdM, LMFT
Senior Associate Director, UCLA Center for Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences

May 16, 2024

Lightning TAR (Teaching as Research) talks from CIRTL Scholars followed by a Happy Hour

Join us to hear three CIRTL@UCLA Scholars share their “Teaching-as-Research” findings. We have the following three talks lined up for this session:

  • Andrew Ramirez, PhD candidate, Bioengineering. Integrating Equity Principles into Bioengineering Machine Learning Curriculum
  • Emily Neer, PhD candidate, Psychology. Encouraging Undergraduate Students to Rest: A Classroom Intervention Study
  • Hannah Tandy, PhD candidate, Geology. Student feelings of Diversity and Belonging – Including Historical Context in Introduction to Oceanography

Andrew Ramirez, PhD candidate, Bioengineering

Emily Neer, PhD candidate, Psychology

Hannah Tandy, PhD candidate, Geology