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October 7, 3:00 - 5:00 PM (EST)
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Partner leaders and community managers are invited to the BioQUEST Partner Summit 2022. Together, we’ll celebrate your accomplishments, strengthen and connect our communities, and make your work with BioQUEST more visible.This virtual event will feature asynchronous lightning talks and posters from partner leaders to showcase the excellent work we’ve done together and synchronous opportunities for networking and discussion with leaders in the BioQUEST/QUBES community. Learn how other groups are using the QUBES platform, find new collaborators and resources, and brainstorm ways to overcome project challenges. Are you the leader of a project that is not yet a BioQUEST partner? Join us to learn about the benefits of partnering with BioQUEST and meet fellow project leaders.
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Partner News and Opportunities
EDSIN Exploratory Report
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network collaborated with a number of organizations to convene a series of small workshops of current and past faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). From these conversations, we generated an Exploratory Report to discuss the strategies and resources that might best support student success in Environmental Data Science at TCUs and HBCUs.
We are requesting your feedback on the findings from this draft report if you have experience at a TCU or HBCU. The purpose of this feedback form is to provide the broader community a voice to also weigh-in on identifying the assets and collaborative activities that support environmental data science education or education in any data science field. This feedback is limited to informing the final Exploratory Report and will be available to the public on the EDSIN website.
Artificial Intelligence and Learning: NSF ITEST Projects At-A-Glance.
Take a look at STELAR's new publication on Artificial Intelligence and Learning: NSF ITEST Projects At-A-Glance. This publication highlights the areas being explored by a variety of NSF funded projects, to provide an overview of what has been funded within the ITEST portfolio to date, and to inspire others to join these research efforts.
Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers
Edited by Lisa A. Corwin and Louise K. Charkoudian (Haverford College) with Jennifer S. Heemstra
In this open-access book, authors from a range of disciplines—from geosciences to drama—capture how failure manifests and can be productively supported in a range of undergraduate research experiences. Whether the learning environment is a STEM research lab, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), a humanities summer undergraduate research experience, a library, or the stage, students can benefit from support when they experience a gap between an expected/desired result and their lived experience. These perspectives and disciplinary contexts address failure from different vantage points and lenses, with the common focal point of nurturing undergraduate success through leveraging failure as an opportunity to build confidence and resilience. Represented are different institutional types, classroom and non-classroom environments, and programmatic and individual efforts. Download your free copy here.
DEI and Social Justice in STEMM Blog
ASCN Working Group 5 is calling for blog posts around diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and social justice in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) programs, classrooms and departments. Some potential areas for discussion include:
- Changing the culture around introductory "weed out" courses
- Defining what diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice mean in the classroom
- Creating diversity statements for STEMM departments
- Approaching positionality in the classroom
- Addressing the pushback to Critical Race Theory on campuses
- Including historically marginalized students in decision-making processes
Posts will be shared with educators and administrators and hosted on the ASCN Blog. Anyone working on incorporating DEI and justice into STEMM programs and education is welcome to post. Our posting criteria may be found on the submission page. All posts will receive comments from an editing team prior to posting. Please consider contributing to our ongoing discussion!
Other Opportunities
Georgetown Biology is recruiting a new assistant professor of Microbiology. Apply here. Review of applications begins on November 1st.
Emory University is searching for an Undergraduate Research Director. Apply here.
First-Year Research Initiative Coordinator, Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University (University Park Campus), starting in Fall 2023, who will also teach in our first-year introductory biology courses. Apply here.
The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program and Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program are seeking proposal reviewers to serve on virtual panels for the 2022-2023 cycle. Interested individuals can fill out the following reviewer interest surveys:
IUSE Reviewer Availability Survey 2022-2023
Noyce Reviewer Availability Survey 2022
A team of researchers from UC, Irvine are conducting a study about Latine and Hispanic teaching-focused faculty's pathways to the professoriate. Participants will receive a $50 dollar gift card upon completing the interview.
You are eligible for our study if you:
- Are a teaching focused professor in a STEM field
- Self-identify as Latino/a/e or Hispanic
- Are within your first 5 years of your first teaching focused faculty position
- All interviews will take place via zoom and participation will be 1-2 hours.
If you are interested in this study please fill out this brief google form.
Dear BQ/QUBES Community,
