Quantitative Biology Education Summit
February 6 & 7, 2014
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

NOTE: This schedule is actively being developed and will be refined over time. 

Friday, February 6th

8:00 AM         Breakfast at NESCent

9:00 AM         Welcome, Meeting Overview, and Introduction to Meeting Organizers

9:15 AM         Group Introductions - Mixer

9:45 AM         How Did We Get Here? A quick overview of the projects supporting this meeting

10:05 AM       Introduction to QUBESHub as a Meeting Tool

10:30 AM       Break

11:00 AM       Creative Thinking Activity

11:15 AM       Identification of Breakout Groups

11:30 AM       Select a Breakout Group to Join for Catered Lunch

Consider addressing these questions:

• Given current resources, what are the low-hanging objectives or targets?
• What are worthy problems for longer investment?
• What are perennial problems that we might address?
• Who are our target audiences (in terms of both faculty and students)?
•  Who are our allies? Which professional societies would be interested? What other groups should we align or collaborate with?
• Where are there areas of overlap?
• Which ideas are worth pursuing but require further planning?
• Are there any emergent ideas?

1:30 PM          Whole Group Report/Feedback

2:00 PM          Select a Second Breakout Group (break built into this session)

Consider addressing these questions:

• Given the current resources, what are the low hanging objectives/targets?
  • some of the low hanging fruit might just require a 30 min discussion - don’t take the time to do it but frame the task and share it with the whole group for buy-in. 
  • Are there activities that QUBES or other groups can take the lead on for immediate action?
• What are worthy problems for longer investment?
• What are perennial problems that we might address?
• Who are our target audiences (in terms of both instructors and students)?
• Who are our allies?  Which professional societies would be interested?  What other groups should we align/collaborate with?   
• Where are there areas of overlap?
• Which ideas are worth pursuing but require further planning?
• Any emergent ideas?

4:00  PM         Whole Group Report/Feedback

4:30 PM          Written Reflection

5:00  PM         NESCent Scholars Happy Hour

6:30 PM          Dinner at local restaurant AND Catered Dinner for the QUBES Board and Leadership Team

9:00 PM         Shuttle to Duke Towers

Saturday, February 7th

8:00 AM        Breakfast at NESCent

9:00 AM        Quick Check-In About Personal Reflections and Resources

9:15 AM         Select a Breakout Group to Join

9:30 AM         Breakout Group

11:30 AM      Whole Group Report

12:00 PM      Catered lunch

1:00 PM         Return to Breakout Group - Discussion of breakout summaries, identification of the key ideas and next steps

Discussion of breakout summaries, identification of the key ideas and next steps:

• Summaries should address these questions/ideas:
  • Given the current resources, what are the low hanging objectives/targets
  • What are worthy problems for longer investment?
  • What are perennial problems that we might address?
  • Who are our target audiences (in terms of both instructors and students)?
  • Who are our allies?  Which professional societies would be interested?  What other groups should we align/collaborate with?   
  • Where are there areas of overlap?
  • Are there activities that QUBES or other groups can take the lead on for immediate action?
  • Which ideas are worth pursuing but require further planning?
  • Any emergent ideas?
  • Describe any specific activities that participants will be pursuing?

2:30  PM        Break

3:00 PM         TBD

4:30 PM         Final Reflections

5:00  PM        Meeting ends*

*Many of us will travel on Sunday so we will have access to NESCent on Saturday evening to continue working.