Photo: Club members discuss HHMI Professorship with Manuel Ares, Jr., Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz.
Fall 2012 Seminars & Events
Monday, December 10, 2012
Biological Sciences Outreach: Gene Regulation
8:30 a.m. to Noon
The Biological Sciences Outreach is run by Dr. Carrie Doonan, director of undergraduate laboratories. High school students from around Pittsburgh are brought to CMU for morning labs. The students are guided by undergraduate and graduate students in conducting experiments and understanding the methods and results. Each mentor may be paired with two to four students, depending on attendance and the number of available volunteers.
December's Outreach: Work with high school students to induce the lac operon to produce beta galactosidase, and then quantitate the levels of enzyme activity.
The Biological Sciences Outreach is run by Dr. Carrie Doonan, director of undergraduate laboratories. High school students from around Pittsburgh are brought to CMU for morning labs. The students are guided by undergraduate and graduate students in conducting experiments and understanding the methods and results. Each mentor may be paired with two to four students, depending on attendance and the number of available volunteers.
October's Outreach: Solve a murder mystery by digesting DNA and running it on a gel to match restriction digest patterns.
Noon to 2 p.m.
Monday, September 24th, from 12-2 pm the Teaching Club is hosting an Eberly Center Seminar, led by Dr. Hilary Schuldt on Planning Effective Lectures in the Mellon Institute Social Room. If you would like to learn more about ensuring that students are engaged and understanding materials during a lecture as well as have some free food, come join us!
Please let us know if you can or cannot attend so that we can plan ahead for food and materials. http://www.doodle.com/riw5sq7u8e3nahpz
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Met to outline semester events:
- Documented seminar by Eberly.
- Writing effective recommendation letters.
- Biology outreach with Carrie.
- New faculty first lectures panel.
- Microteaching workshop.
- Mentorship/workshops for using software in the Sciences.
- Held elections.