Prof. Rob Donaldson will give an invited talk on December 3rd at annual national meeting of the the American Society for Cell Biology, Philadelphia, PA. His talk, titled Learning in Large Introductory Biology Courses Is Effectively Facilitated by Trained Undergraduate Learning Assistants, will appear in the in the Evidence Based Education Minisymposium. Check back in December for an update!
Month: October 2017
LA Sarah Schrup presents at CPED6100W
Next week, LA Sarah Schrup will present her poster, High-throughput Optoepigenetics with Photoswitchable Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Murine Breast Cancer and Melanoma Models, co-authored with Christina M. Ambrosi, Melissa Hadley, Andrew I. Efimov, Stephen J. Haggarty, Ralph Mazitschek, Alejandro Villagra, and Emilia Entcheva, at the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES) in Pheonix, AZ. Sarah did a test run of her talk in CPED6100W. That sparked a discussion about the benefits and limitations of learning science by participating in undergraduate research.
Teaching Day 2017
Thank you to LAs Acacia Ackles and Alaina Pak for presenting "How to Improve In-class Activities with Undergraduate Learning Assistants" at GW Teaching Day 2017! Alaina and Acacia were the only undergraduate students presenting at the event.