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?
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."
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September 2004 Roundtable
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February 2004 Roundtable
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