University of Oregon Science Literacy Program

Grad students: wrap up your week with an informal coffee hour! This afternoon we'll be talking strategies to make your classrooms more inclusive.

Drop in whenever you can for as long as you can. See you there!

This Friday: University of Oregon graduate students are invited to an informal coffee hour to discuss equitable, inclusive classrooms.

Our special guest is Dr. Kimberly Tanner, who investigates how to make equity, diversity, and inclusion central in science education efforts in her lab at SFSU. Check out more info on her upcoming visit to UO, including two workshops: https://scilit.uoregon.edu/events/

Congratulations to SLP faculty member Santiago Jaramillo! He was awarded a University of Oregon 2019 Faculty Research Award to study predictive coding in the mouse brain.

Read more about the award and other winners:

The 2019 Faculty Research Awards go to 24 UO scholars Only 20 awards are usually given, but the number was raised due to the quality of submissions

This Friday: University of Oregon graduate students are invited to an informal coffee hour to discuss equitable, inclusive classrooms.

Our special guest is Dr. Kimberly Tanner, who investigates how to make equity, diversity, and inclusion central in science education efforts in her lab at SFSU. Check out more info on her upcoming visit to UO, including two workshops: https://scilit.uoregon.edu/events/

S.P.I.C.E summer camps are back! Where else do you get to spend two weeks electrocuting pickles, performing candy chromatography, and building your own amazing devices?

Rising 6th-9th graders are invited to register. Scholarships are available. Preference will be given to girls and non-gender conforming students. Learn more: https://spicescience.uoregon.edu/spice/join

Prof. Kimberly Tanner will be joining us next week for two workshops on inclusivity in the classroom, one of the three pillars of Scientific Teaching. Read the feature about the workshops in this week's Around the O and join us next week for one or both of them!

Inclusive classrooms = more students learning and learning more!

Student success and classroom experience focus of workshops Kimberly Tanner of San Francisco State University will lead interactive workshops April 11-12

What are your thoughts on the importance of classroom furniture in relation to learning?

A cruel pedagogical exercise I inflicted upon my students Several weeks ago I conducted a cruel pedagogical experiment. The class topic that day was mobile technology. I wanted to get students thinking about how mobility allows us to shake up learning sp…

Around the O highlighted our Science Teaching Journal Club. Join us for journal club on Thursdays from 9-10am in LISB 217. Come every week or drop in when your schedule allows!

Journal club offers opportunity to improve teaching practices Faculty and students come together to discuss the 'how' of teaching, not just the 'what'

At SLP, we're incredibly proud of the work we've done to advance evidence-based scientific teaching on the University of Oregon campus. Check out what we've accomplished since we launched in 2010!

Winter term is almost over! Read our newsletter for more information about our end-of-term happy hour, our Winter 2019 Lab Lit Book Club, an upcoming workshop from University of Oregon Women in Graduate Sciences, and more!

SLP Newsletter: Winter 2019 Week Ten

Did you know that 10 rivers contribute most of the plastics in the oceans? How would you go about fixing the plastic pollution issue nationally and globally? How did you come to that decision? How do you know it's a good decision?

Jenny Dauer, professor at University of Nebraska - Lincoln, joined us last week for a workshop called "Teaching decision-making in the science classroom to promote science literacy." Jenny teaches a course titled "Science & Decision Making for a Complex World." The students are taught to apply a slow thinking decision making framework to socioscientific topics. One topic is that of plastic pollution in the oceans.

How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean Plastic pollution poses one of the biggest known threats to the ocean, influencing all ecosystems from beautiful coral reefs to abyssal trenches, eventually accumulating in our own food.

Exciting news! The University of Oregon has won an Association of American Universities mini-grant to improve STEM education on campus by aligning curricula across different STEM majors. SLP helped develop the framework for the proposal and will be a co-leader on this initiative.

UO earns grant to strengthen STEM education The Association of American University awarded grants to 12 universities

This Thursday, we'll host Jenny Dauer from UNL School of Natural Resources for a science literacy workshop. Hope to see you there!