May 15 and 17: Support Student Growth One Point at a Time: Course Design for Flexibility and Choice

Providing students with choice in how they accumulate and demonstrate knowledge, skills, and points throughout the semester can help increase motivation, interest, and connection to the material. It is a student-centered practice that is supported by principles from Universal Design, inclusive pedagogy, and motivation research. It provides structured flexibility giving students time to interact with the material at the pace they need.

This workshop will provide guidance and work time to update or design a course you are teaching next year, including getting started with a Canvas site. It will consist of two 3-hour working sessions. You will be working on your ideas throughout the sessions, but the last 30-45 minutes will be dedicated to working directly on your course. By the end of the workshop, you should have a lot of your course ready to launch!

Wednesday, May 15th, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Friday, May 17th, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE), Woodruff Library 216

What to Bring:

Syllabus (if you have one), or course overview and objectives

A computer

An open mind ready to rethink the assessment structure of your course

A smile and an appetite!

Facilitators

Liesl Wuest, associate director of Learning Design and Technology

Alicia Lane, graduate assistant, Learning Design and Technology

For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

Three Emory Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three Emory University faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.

Emory faculty elected this year include:

• Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies
• Laura Otis, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of English
• John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and McDonald Distinguished Professor

Lipstadt, Otis and Witte will join 30 other Emory faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which elected its first members in 1781 and announced its newest members April 24. The 250 members elected in 2024 are being recognized for their excellence and invited to uphold the academy’s mission of engaging across disciplines and divides.

For more informaiton, please visit this Emory News Center webpage.

How Lives Become Archives

Both Alli and Arge [Atlanta artists] carried their cameras everywhere they went. Day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, they took photographs of their friends, their families, places, events. Through this daily creative practice of taking photographs, you can see them turning their life into art. Over time, these photographs became the stories, the histories of a part of Atlanta and Atlanta's communities. This provides a model for all of us of how we can turn our lives into art and how our lives become archives.

--Randy Gue, assistant director of collection development and curator of political, cultural, and social movements, during an interview on the exhibit "Our Archives Could Be Your Life," presented by Emory University Libraries

CFDE Resources on Teaching in Tumultuous Times

These CFDE resources may be a good place to start if you are thinking about how to best support your students (and yourself) as the semester comes to a close. If students are reaching out to you to talk about what’s going on and their concerns and/or feelings, consider that this is possibly because they trust you. So please do listen to them, even if you are unsure about what to say. Active, compassionate listening is a good place to start and allow space for students to share what they are thinking and feeling:

1. CFDE’s Workshop on Navigating Difficult Conversations
   This resource is in our Canvas Knowledge Hub. Here is how to sign up.

2. CFDE’s Resources on Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning in Times of Crisis (pages 56-58).

3. This Trauma-aware teaching checklist may also be useful at this time.

For more information and resources, please visit the CFDE website.

Christine Dunham, Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences

Christine Dunham completed her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California Santa-Cruz. Prior to joining Emory College in Spring 2023, DDunham was an associate professor of biochemistry at Emory School of Medicine. Dunham’s research focuses on identifying the mechanistic basis of bacterial translation and regulation through a combination of biochemical, structural, and molecular biology techniques. Her articles have published in a number of journals including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

All events are subject to change or cancellation.

Monday, May 6

All day in R. Randall Rollins Building RP01-Margaret H. Rollins Room (Plaza Level), the 2024 Emory University Sleep Symposium will take place. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At noon in R. Randall Rollins building 809, the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research Seminar Series presents Melissa B. Davis, Director of the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. For more information and to register, please visit the events calendar.

Tuesday, May 7

All day in Rollins School of Public Health Auditorium, the Tenth Annual Health and Services Research Day will take place. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

At 10:30 a.m. via Zoom, Teaching and Learning Technologies will offer Video Production Team Drop-In. For more information and to sign up, please visit this webpage.

At noon in 5052 Rollins Research Center, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology presents Lohitash Karumbaiah, associate professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine, University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center. The topic of this lecture is "Extracellular Matrix Pathophysiology in Brian Injuries and Cancer." For more information, please contact Olga Rivera (otrambl@emory.edu).

At 2:00 p.m. via Zoom, the Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center presents Emory BrainTalk Live, a weekly webinar via Zoom featuring engaging discussions led by faculty clinicians who are experts in their fields. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Wednesday, May 8

At 2:00 p.m. online, Human Resources presents a training on Introduction to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. For more information and to register, please visit the events calendar.

At 8:00 p.m. in Emerson Concert Hall, ythe Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra will perform. For more information, please visit the Arts events calendar.

Thursday, May 9

At noon via Zoom the Marcus Autism and Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds presents Wendy Chung, chief, Department of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, who will speak on “SPARKing New Insights in Autism.” To register, visit this link.

Friday, May 10

All day in Claudia Nance Rollins Building eighth floor, the Eighth Annual Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research Scientific Symposium will take place. The speaker is Sherita Hill Golden, vice president and chief diversity officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

At 9:00 a.m. in HSRBII N100 and via Zoom, the Experimental Pathology Seminar Series will host Afamefuna (Afam) A. Okoye, associate professor, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University), who will speak on "Nhancing Cd8+ T Cells to Facilitate the Immune Intercept of Rebounding Hiv/Siv Reservoirs." For more information, please visit the events calendar.

At 10:00 a.m. in Math and Science Center, MSC N117A, the Theoretical Biophysics Journal Club will meet. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

Saturday, May 11

At 10:00 a.m. in Science Gallery Atlanta, 225 Rogers Street NE, Building 12, the EcoCommunity Fair will take place. For more information and to RSVP, please visit the events calendar.

Sunday, May 12 - Monday, May 13

Commencement activities scheduled. Please visit this link for more information

ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Monday, May 6, 2024, Volume 24, Issue 35

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