Fall 2010 Research Mentor Training

Course Meeting Times

Dates: Wednesdays, September 29 – December 1
Meeting times: 1:30- 2:30ET / 12:30-1:30 CT/ 11:30-12:30 MT

Chris Pfund

Chris Pfund is the Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and co-director of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching. For the past 6 years Chris has been focused on preparing future faculty to be effective teachers and mentors, as well as to successfully integrate their approaches to research with their approaches to teaching and learning. She connected with many the major initiatives at UW-Madison targeted at improving graduate and undergraduate education in the sciences including several efforts focused on issues of diversity.

Jennifer Knight

Jennifer Knight is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jennifer works in two main areas; course transformation and science education research. She been using and encouraging others to use interactive techniques in biology courses for more than 4 years. In particular, she focuses on the use of learning goals, group work, clickers, in class problem solving and "just in time teaching". Most recently, she hs been studying how non-majors and majors learn genetics

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