Transforming Chemistry Education
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Gabriela Weaver
Vice Provost & Professor of Chemistry, UMass, Amherst
Caltech Alumna (BS Chemistry, 1989)
WHEN: Friday, April 10, Noon (Lunch provided)
WHY: Find out about new efforts underway to improve undergraduate chemistry programs nationally and see examples of course and curriculum transformations at peer institutions.
RSVP HERE: http://goo.gl/sM0QEG
Dr. Gabriela Weaver earned a BS in Chemistry at Caltech (1989) and went on to a PhD in Chemical Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, professorships in Chemistry at Purdue and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and extensive work redesigning and researching chemistry and STEM education at all levels through her work as Director of the Discovery Learning Research Center at Purdue, and now as Vice Provost and Director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development at U. Mass., Amherst. She has recently submitted manuscript for a book entitled Transforming Institutions: 21st Century Undergraduate STEM Education, to be published in May by the Purdue University Press.
This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach, with support from the Twenty-Seven Foundation.
For more information, please contact Cassandra Horii by phone at 626-395-6225 or by email at cvh@caltech.edu.