This roundtable discussion offers faculty a space to discuss experiences, best practices, and concerns regarding teaching writing remotely during a time of international crisis. Topics covered may include online writing pedagogies, writing in response to trauma, and using writing to support asynchronous learning. The conversation will be co-facilitated by Emily Hipchen (Director, Nonfiction Writing Program/ Senior Lecturer in English), Austin Jackson (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of English), and Charlie Carroll (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of History). Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link and preliminary questions to ponder.

Are you interested in participating in a forum that shares ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education? The Science Friday Faculty Forum provides a space for Brown faculty and administrators to have these conversations. Please register for this event.

This roundtable discussion offers faculty a space to discuss experiences, best practices, and concerns regarding teaching writing remotely during a time of international crisis. Topics covered may include online writing pedagogies, writing in response to trauma, and using writing to support asynchronous learning. The conversation will be co-facilitated by Emily Hipchen (Director, Nonfiction Writing Program/ Senior Lecturer in English), Austin Jackson (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of English), and Charlie Carroll (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of History). Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link and preliminary questions to ponder.

Are you interested in participating in a forum that shares ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education? The Science Friday Faculty Forum provides a space for Brown faculty and administrators to have these conversations. Please register for this event.

This semester, our Brown classrooms cross the county and the globe in new ways. Please join us to reflect on your experiences navigating remote teaching across time zones, languages, and cultures. Open Hours provide a space for faculty to share their insights, challenges, and questions around these topics. The conversation will be facilitated via Zoom by Sheridan’s English Language Support Associate Director Anne Kerkian, and Specialist Jen Kim. Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link.

As we continue to adjust to a disrupted semester, this roundtable offers faculty in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to participate in an informal roundtable discussion about remote teaching. Participants will be encouraged to share strategies they have found helpful and discuss challenges they’ve been facing. As a group, we’ll brainstorm ideas and problem solve in a supportive environment. The conversation will be facilitated via Zoom by Sheridan Senior Associate Director Jessica Metzler. Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link.

You’ve completed your first week of distance teaching your labs! How did it go? Do you want a supportive environment to reflect on your experiences? Brainstorm ideas on how to continue moving forward? Meet with colleagues and build a community? Please join me for Lab Open Hours to discuss and connect about your experiences teaching remote labs. The conversation will be facilitated via Zoom by Sheridan Associate Director Christina Smith. Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link.

This roundtable discussion offers faculty a space to discuss experiences, best practices, and concerns regarding teaching writing remotely during a time of international crisis. Topics covered may include online writing pedagogies, writing in response to trauma, and using writing to support asynchronous learning. The conversation will be co-facilitated by Emily Hipchen (Director, Nonfiction Writing Program/ Senior Lecturer in English), Austin Jackson (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of English), and Charlie Carroll (Assistant Director, Writing Center/ Visiting Assistant Professor of History). Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link and preliminary questions to ponder.

Science Friday is a forum for instructors to share ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education. As the first week of remote teaching and learning comes to a close, we will have a group discussion about your experience with this new format. Please join us to share aspects that went well, challenges, or new ideas you’d like to brainstorm with your colleagues. Please register for this event.

This four-part series aims to help participants speak clearly and confidently when using English in academic settings. Topics this semester include sound- and phrase-level pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. 

This four-part series aims to help participants speak clearly and confidently when using English in academic settings. Topics this semester include sound- and phrase-level pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. This week’s workshop will be held as an online, self-guided, audio and visual presentation. Please find the resources for the presentation here.

Please note that this workshop will now be held via Zoom. Registrants will be emailed a link to participate.

Erin Dolan (Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia) will offer a brief overview of the recently released, National Academies’ report and recommendations on mentorship at the undergraduate and graduate level, followed by an open discussion about mentoring. Please register for this event.

Please note that this workshop will now be held via Zoom. Registrants will be emailed a link to participate.

National calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have emphasized the importance of undergraduate research experiences. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, involve groups of students in addressing research problems or questions in the context of a class, and have been proposed as scalable ways of involving undergraduates in research. This interactive seminar, presented by Erin Dolan (Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia), will offer a definition of CUREs, describe what makes them distinctive from other learning experiences, outline the state of knowledge about CURE effectiveness, and highlight results from the Freshman Research Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin as a unique and highly impactful CURE model. Please register for this event.

This weekly English conversation group uses news articles and commentaries from the Brown Daily Herald as launching points for discussions about U.S. culture, idiomatic language, and English vocabulary. Lunch provided! Please register.

How can we create more equitable learning environments? Frank Tuitt* offers a set of guiding principles to help us critically examine and rethink common teaching practices in his chapter, “Inclusive Pedagogy 2.0: Implications for Race, Equity, and Higher Education in a Global Context” in *Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment* (2016).

This four-part series aims to help participants speak clearly and confidently when using English in academic settings. Topics this semester include sound- and phrase-level pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. Workshops will be held on February 28 and March 6, 13, and 20. Please register.

Impostor syndrome—the feeling that one is a fraud or not qualified—affects many individuals at various points in their lives. This workshop is designed for graduate students who may be experiencing this imposter phenomenon in the context of their teaching or their roles as TAs. We will discuss how graduate students facing imposter syndrome can be effective TA instructors. We will further explore ways graduate TAs can support students who are facing imposter syndrome. This workshop will be led by Anastasia Tsylina, Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Studies and Sheridan Center Proctor. Space is limited. Please register.