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 [1], 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 [2], 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 [3], 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 [4], 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 [5], 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 [6], 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 [7], 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 [8], 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 [9], 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 [10], 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 [11], 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 [12], 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 [13], Dr. Justine Chasmar, Director of Quantitative Reasoning Center, Goucher College


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