PI Liz Barnes and collaborator Dr. Katy Hosbein presented their joint work at the Tennessee Board of Regents Degrees of Success conference. They spoke on the use of Learning Assistants for decreasing DFW rates and closing the DFW gap between first generation and continuing generation students.
PI Liz Barnes visited Knoxville as the plenary talk for UTKs Center for Teaching and Mentoring summit, speaking on how to teach culturally controversial topics for reducing conflict and enhances students' civic engagement.
The Science Communication Education Research Network (SCERN) brought together more than 30 scholars in Minnesota to create a call-to-action essay and plans to build the new discipline of science communication education research (SciCommEd Research) and Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) wrote a news story about it. We hope that this new field can prepare the next generation of scientists, health care providers, and teachers with the tools they need to navigate the changing cultural landscape about science and policy and work collaboratively with people across political, religious, and other cultural divides. The leadership team included Liz as well as Nicole Kelp from Colorado State University, Sarah Eddy from University of Minnesota, Heather Bergan-Roller from Northern Illinois University and Erin Rowland-Schaefer from University of Omaha Nebraska. Check it out here!
