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Roundtable Dinners & Discussions

These dinners are a monthly forum for discussion and connections within a large group. For one evening a month, a guest introduces a topic of general interest or a provocative issue for discussion. With guiding questions posed to begin and facilitate the discussions at each roundtable, discussion will take place over dinner provided by Delta.  These discussions are relevant to a wide audience with specific connections to what participants are learning in other Delta programs and courses. All participants in any Delta program will be invited to these monthly Roundtable Dinners.

October 2008 ROUNDTABLE

Join us for an Expeditionary Roundtable

Date: Wednesday, October 15 from 6:00-7:15 p.m.
Location: Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building (note venue change)

Speaker: Gwen Drury, Ph.D. student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and consultant on Socially Ergonomic Environmental Design (SEED)

Topic: Interchangeable parts, social capital and the puzzle of collaboration: what’s space got to do with it?

Space shapes how teaching and learning gets done.  Designers of classrooms and research buildings of the future are taking this into account.  At this roundtable, we’ll think about how and why newer buildings on campus are providing spaces that are conducive to building collaborative and interdisciplinary learning communities.  Gwen Drury a PhD student in the School of Education and a consultant with the design team for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will talk about how space can be intentionally designed to support collaboration and increase student success.  She’ll touch on the implications this has for learning communities and learning-through-diversity, two key Delta pillars.  Then, participants will have a chance to discuss their own experiences and consider the implications for how they can design their classrooms to better accomplish these ends.  Gwen is especially excited for you to share your collective wisdom with her!

In keeping with the theme of this Roundtable, we are asking you to go on a brief expedition prior to the event—explore a new building on campus to observe how designers have built the space to make it conducive to collaboration. (Additional information and maps will be provided to all attendees one week prior to the event.)

CLICK HERE to register.

Registration is required for Roundtable Dinners and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration will remain open until Wednesday, October 8 at noon.

 

November 2008 ROUNDTABLE

Date: Wednesday, November 19 from 6:00-7:15 p.m.
Location: Memorial Union

Speaker: TBA

 

2008-2009 Roundtable Dinners

September 17th: Robert Mathieu, Astronomy and Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning
Student Course Evaluations: Everybody does them. What do we learn from them?

2007-2008 Roundtable Dinners

September 19th: David Shaffer, Educational Psychology  
University at Play

October 17th: Nicola Ferrier and Paul Nealey, Engineering Faculty  
Balancing Research, Teaching and Family Commitments: One Couple's Story

November 14th: Sharon Dunwoody, Faculty from School of Journalism
Framing Science - look at a current controversy about whether scientists should purposively "frame" their information for different audiences.

February 13th: Ann Austin, Professor, Michigan State University
The 21st Century Faculty Member

March 5th: Basil Tikoff, Faculty in Geology and Geophysics
The Audacity of Scientific Hope: Imagining a scientifically literate citizenry and doing something about it at UW-Madison

April 23st: Jolanda Vanderwal-Taylor (Dept of German) and Nancy Westphal-Johnson (Undergrad Education/ L&S Academic Administration)

LEAP Initiative - Liberal Education and Science Careers: Do the essential learning outcomes of liberal education enhance scientific endeavors and careers? 

2006-2007 Roundtable Dinners

September 27th: Patrick Farrell, Vice Chancellor and Provost
Systems Thinking in Education for Math, Engineering, and All the Sciences

October 25th: George Mejicano, Assistant Dean of the Medical School  
The Wisconsin Idea in the 21st Century 

December 6th: Holly Kerby, Instructor of Chemistry and Creative Writing/Drama MATC

What theater can teach us about learning science:insights, stories, and practical suggestions about communicating science to diverse audiences

January 31st: Lori Berquam, Interim Dean of Students
What you don't know about current students that you should: current students as classroom consumers

March 7th: Dr. Teri Balser, Professor of Soil Science
Getting them engaged: Activating learning in the classroom

April 18th: Alice Pawley, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Content, context, and disciplinarity: drawing a line around what we teach

2005 - 2006 Roundtable Dinners

September 20th: Dr. Molly Carnes, UW Medical School
Attracting Bees with Honey: Increasing Student Diversity in Research.

October 19th: Peter Bosscher, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching In Situ: Do We Need Classrooms?

December 7th: Angela Byars-Winston, Counseling Psychology
Retaining STEM Students of Color: Connecting Institutional Efforts with Student Needs

February 1st: Spring Semester Kick-off
Sharing Teaching Successes

March 1st: Sharon Dunwoody (Journalism) and Steve Ackerman (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Informal and Outreach Science Education

April 12th: Karen Klomparens (Dean of the Graduate School) and
John Beck (School of Labor and Industrial Relations) Michigan State University.

Communicating Expectations and Working with Others

Previous Roundtable Speakers

April 2005: Trina McMahon, Lisa Torrey, and Angela Kent, "Integrating the three pillars: drawing upon the Delta learning community to design, implement, and assess an interactive "virtual lab" to support a variety of learning styles."

March 2005: Steve Ackerman, "From airplane rides to radio shows: sharing research with the public."

February 2005: Jo Handelsman, "Scientific Teaching: Training a new generation of science faculty"

December 2004: Susan Horwitz, "Where are the women in computer science? Using active recruiting and group problem solving to increase their numbers."

October 2004: Bernice Durand and Roselyn Williams, "African-American STEM students in HBCUs and majority-serving universities."

September 2004: Herb Wang, "Education, Outreach, and Environmental Justice."

April 2004: Cathy Middlecamp, "Teaching Chemistry: The Intellectual Challenge of Diversity."

March 2004: Pupa De Stasio, "Blue and Yellow don't make Green: Simplifying Light, Color, and Color Mixing."

February 2004: Mark Cook, "Animal Rights and Animal Science: The Human/Animal Symbiosis as a Format for Critical Thinking."

December 2003: John Wiley, "Passion in Science and Teaching."

October 2003: Richard Davidson, "Biology is not Destiny: Modern Views on the Biology of Mind."

 

 

Photo of Roundtable participants at the University Club

September 2004 Roundtable Dinner
at the University Club
(803 State St)

 

 

tripp photo

February 2004 Roundtable Dinner
at Tripp Commons
(Memorial Union)

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