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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sent on behalf of Donna Pattison, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear NSM Faculty:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">An NSM Faculty Development Workshop is scheduled for
<b>Friday, March 23, </b>from <b>11:30 am – 12:30 pm</b> in <b>McElhinney Hall, Room 116.
</b>Lunch will be provided; please arrive a few minutes early. Please RSVP by <u>
March 20</u> using the link below. A flyer is attached. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Topic:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"> “</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Making
the Most of Course-Based Research Experiences (CRE): a sequence of CREs”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Presenter:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dr. Nancy Stamp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Director of Freshman Research Immersion and Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Department of Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Binghamton University-SUNY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Research on CRE (course-based undergraduate research experience) suggests that it can be effective for engaging and training undergraduates in STEM, especially when made available to first-year
students. However, establishing such courses, in particular, a sequence of them requires considerable planning. We established a Freshmen Research Immersion (FRI), a sequence of three CUREs that starts with fall freshmen. The first course focuses on identifying
good research projects, reading the scientific literature, learning how to work in teams, and other generic issues. The second course introduces students to equipment, protocols, and experimental design in their chosen research track, such that they complete
a research proposal by the end of the term. In the third course, students complete the research project that they proposed the previous spring. We have nine research tracks that span the STEM disciplines (life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences,
and engineering). Each track has 30 freshmen, which results in 270 freshmen and 220 sophomores in FRI each year. Begun in 2014, already the FRI program has resulted in 25 student team research posters at regional/national conferences, with 105 student coauthors.
Assessment of our CREs includes standardized rubrics applied to students’ research proposal, report and poster; surveys of students’ perspective on their gains; and students’ reflection essays on their professional and personal growth. We will share results
of student outcomes and lessons we have learned in implementing this program.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">RSVP by March 20:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></span><a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-making"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(246, 139, 28);">www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-making</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">I hope you will join us
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">on March 23<span style="color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Donna Pattison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Donna L. Pattison, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructional Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Affairs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biology and Biochemistry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">713-743-2642<o:p></o:p></p>
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