TIG Brown Bag

Second Thursday of each month from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Howell Conference Room, Sewall Hall

Spring 2020

04/09
No guest speaker; internal meeting

03/13
Speaker: TBD

02/20
TIG will be joining the workshop titled, What’s New in Research on Teaching and Learning: How to Encourage Your Students to be Learning-Centered, organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

Fall 2019

11/14
Speaker: Dr. James P. DeNicco, Director of the Principles of Economics Program and Lecturer for the Department of Economics, Rice University

10/10
TIG will be joining the workshop titled, Intro to Digital Accessibility, organized by the Office of Information Technology (OIT)

09/12
TIG will be joining the workshop titled, What’s New in Research on Teaching and Learning: The One Who Does the Work, Does the Learning: Students as Producers, organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

Spring 2019

04/11
No guest speaker; internal meeting

03/14
No guest speaker; internal meeting

02/14
Speakers: Dr. Lesa Tran (Wiess Instructor of Chemistry), Dr. Beth Beason (Teaching Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology)

01/10
Speaker: Rachel Trump-Steele, Psychological Sciences graduate student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Fall 2018

12/13
Speaker: Dr. James P. DeNicco – Lecturer and Director of Principles of Economics Program, Rice University – 2018 winner of the Malcolm Gillis Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching in Economics; 2018 winner of the Sarah A. Burnett Teaching Prize in Social Sciences

11/08
Speaker: Dr. Özge Gürcanlı – Lecture, Department of Psychological Science

10/11
Speaker: Dr. Robin Paige – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University

09/13
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Festa – Lecturer and Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Communication, Rice University

Spring 2018

1/11
Working Session for Brown Teaching Grant. Dr. Sandra Parsons and Dr. Carissa Zimmerman will share their currently funded ideas. Please come with ideas to share!

2/8
Dr. Eden King and Dr. Philip Kortum will each present an active learning or project-based assignment they use in their classes.

3/8
Workshop. More info coming soon!

4/12
Dr. Sandra Parsons will present what she learned from participating in this semester’s Colloquy, hosted by the CTE.