Program Agenda and Registration Form

Saturday, March 30, 2019

• 9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Welcoming remarks


• 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Building Academic Pathways and Supports: An Integrated Precalculus/Calculus Course and Concurrent Emerging Scholars Program, Robin Gottlieb, Professor of the Practice in Teaching Mathematics, and Dr. Brendan Kelly, Senior Preceptor, Harvard University


• 10:15 a.m - 10:30 a.m.: discussion


• 10:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m.: break


• 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Learning Gains in Math Courses Revised to Utilize Adaptive Learning, Dr. Sara Milillo, Senior Academic Director of Core Curriculum and Science, and Dr. Maura Devlin, Deputy Chief Learning Officer, The American Women's College


• 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.: Using Hollywood Movies to Teach Principles of Physics to Non-Science Majors, Dr. Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor of Physics and the Director of the Engineering 3+2 Program, Sacred Heart University


• 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch


• 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Data analysis across the curriculum: elements of a program, Dr. Manolis Kaparakis, Director of Quantitative Analysis Center, Wesleyan University


• 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: discussion


• 2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.: Incorporating Quantitative Reasoning into Biomedical, Data Science-Intensive Courses, Susan Liao, Predoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


• 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: break


• 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.: How Our Center of Excellence for Women in STEM Enhanced Quantitative Literacy and Boosted STEM Success for Underrepresented, Low-income, and First-generation Women at Bay Path University, Dr. Gina Semprebon, Director, Center for Excellence for Women in STEM and Dr. Yadilette Rivera-Colón, Assistant Professor of Biology and Undergraduate Research Program Coordinator, Bay Path University


• 3:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.: Teaching QR: A Journey in an Urban College, Dr. Nadia Benakli, Associate Professor of Mathematics, New York City College of Technology


• 3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Using STEM to increase engagement and efficacy in entry level mathematics courses, Dr. Vanessa Hill, Professor of Mathematics, Springfield Technical Community College


• 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Discussion and end of day remarks

Sunday, March 31, 2019

• 9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Welcoming remarks


• 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.: Why is tutoring effective? Three hypotheses, Dr. Melissa Mills, Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Mathematics Learning Success Center, Oklahoma State University


• 10:15 a.m - 10:30 a.m.: discussion


• 10:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m.: break


• 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Being Human in STEM: students, staff and faculty partnering to enhance inclusion in STEM on campus, Dr. Sheila Jaswal, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Sai Chauhan, junior math and physics major, and Linh Le, senior math and french major. Amherst College


• 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.: discussion


• 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch


• 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.: Math anxiety of female college students, Victoria Gruneiro, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Bay Path University


• 1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: discussion


• 2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.: Collecting visitor data at UConn's Q Center, Dr. Alvaro Lozano-Robledo, Director, and Diane Briody, Program Coordinator, Quantitative Learning Center, University of Connecticut


• 2:20 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.: Overview of a One-Credit Tutor Training Course, Dr. Justine Chasmar, Director of Quantitative Reasoning Center, Goucher College


• 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: closing remarks