RiSE Center Colloquia and Seminars
subject to change without notice
All colloquia and seminars for the Center will be held in Rm. 165 Barrows Hall, the Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium in the Engineering Science and Research Building (ESRB) unless otherwise noted. Presentations will begin at 3 pm, with colloquium refreshments served at about 2:45 p.m. in the auditorium lobby unless otherwise noted (thesis defenses).
| Date | Event | Place |
| Monday | ||
| Fall 2012 Colloquia, Seminars and Thesis Defenses | ||
| Colloquia | ||
| Sept. 17 | Scott Freeman, Ph.D. University of Washington, Dept. of Biology – “Evidence-based Learning in Introductory Biology” | Hill Auditorium |
| Nov. 5 | Jennifer Knight, Senior Instructor, Dept. of MCD Biology, University of Colorado – Boulder – “Investigating Clicker Discussions: Students, Instructors, and Classroom Culture” | Hill Auditorium |
| Dec. 3 | Sam Pazicni, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire – “From theory to practice: Research on the teaching and learning of chemistry” | Hill Auditorium |
| Thesis Defenses | ||
| Dec. 7 | Rabindra Bajracharya, Thesis Defense – “Student understanding of definite integral using graphical representations” | 375 Stevens Hall 10 am – Noon |
| Dec. 7 | Virginia Flood, Thesis Defense – “A phenomenological approach to understanding the role of bodily activity in chemical imagining” | 205 Little Hall 4:30-6:30 pm |
| Dec. 11 | Sarah Rizzo, Thesis Defense – “College students’ understanding of geometric transformations” | Hill Auditorium 10 am – Noon |
| Dec. 19 | Ashley Young, Thesis Defense – “Teachers’ understandings of inquiry and reported use of scientific practices: A survey of NSTA conference attendees” | 316 Shibles Hall 10 am – Noon |
| Spring 2013 Colloquia, Seminars and Thesis Defenses | ||
| Jan. 11, 10am-12:00pm | THESIS DEFENSE – Kara M. Soule “Assessing and enhancing student understanding of carbon cycling in organisms“ |
Rm. 100 Bryand Global Sciences Center |
| Jan. 30, 12-1:30pm | Sarah Nelson, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research and School of Forest Resources “Who’s the expert here? Collaborative mercury research in the Acadia Learning Project” |
Hill Auditorium |
| Feb. 4 | Erin Furtak, Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder “Exploring the Role of Disciplinary Knowledge, Language, and Practices in Collaborative Formative Assessment Design“ |
Hill Auditorium |
| Feb. 18 | Michelle K. Smith, Assistant Professor of Biology, School of Biology and member of the Maine RiSE Center, University of Maine Identifying and changing persistent conceptual dificulties in undergraduate biology courses |
Hill Auditorium |
| Mar. 18 | MacKenzie Stetzer, Assistant Professor of Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and member of the Maine RiSE Center, University of Maine “New Insights into Student Understanding of Electrical Circuits and Analog Electronics” |
Hill Auditorium |
| Apr. 1 | Nicole Gillespie, Ph.D. (education in mathematics, science and technology), Senior Program Officer, Science; Knowles Science Teaching Foundation “Inquiry and Teacher Professional Development: Lessons Learned from the KSTF Teaching Fellowship Program” |
Hill Auditorium |
| Thesis Defenses | ||
| Apr. 3 8:30 am |
THESIS DEFENSE – Evan Chase “Investigating physics students’ simultaneous use of gestures & speech to describe multiple quantities of a vertically-tossed ball” |
Hill Auditorium |
| Apr. 8 9:00 am |
THESIS DEFENSE – Ryan Weatherbee “Shedding light on marine science education: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of Student Content Knowledge in an Undergraduate Marine Science Program” |
Hill Auditorium |
| Apr. 12 11:00 am |
THESIS DEFENSE – Adi Levy Conlogue “Students’ thinking about recursion: When do they use it and why?” |
130 Little Hall |
| Apr. 19 1:00 pm |
Tentative THESIS DEFENSE – MaryJean Jones | 117 D.P. Corbett |