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Prof. McClary visited CPED6100W this week to discuss her experiences in Chemistry Education Research. She shared her research on students' mental models of acid and acid strength and use of heuristics in General Chemistry and Chemistry. She also led the LAs in a discussion about creative exercises and other techniques to encourage students to really make sense of chemistry.

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!

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.