On May 25, 2020, Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) and the Office of Science Education (OSE) at 海角社区 held a panel discussion on remote teaching for instructors in the Faculty of Science.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2020
Dr Amal Bessissow was awarded the Douglas G. Kinnear Award 2020, nominated by the MGH residents for exceptional skill in teaching clinical medicine.
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Published on: 8 Jul 2020
Dr Khue Ly won the Department of Medicine Phil Hill Award 2020 in recognition of excellence in teaching clinical medicine.
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Published on: 8 Jul 2020
By Morgan Sweeney
If you had told me five years ago that I would graduate college with a science degree, I would have said you were crazy. Sixteen-year-old Morgan thought science was dry textbooks and boring labs, too much work for things that would never affect her life. Until January 29th, 2017, when a serious knee injury forever transformed my relationship to science.
Published on: 29 Apr 2020
For the first time ever, 海角社区 will run a summer-semester version of CHEM 181, its enormously popular course on the chemistry of food.
Enrolments are now open for a June 2020 edition of the course that has been taken by tens of thousands of students over its nearly 40-year history.
Making sense of food
Published on: 27 Apr 2020
By Nicole George
Academia Week 2020 began with an Undergraduate Poster Showcase, sponsored by the Office of Science Education (OSE), , and Teaching and Learning Services (TLS).
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Published on: 1 Apr 2020
By Cynthia Feng and Kira Smith
Office of Science Education team members Cynthia Feng and Kira Smith are working with members of the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) on planning the next edition of the SUS鈥檚 highly anticipated Academia Week.
Published on: 9 Jan 2020
The Office of Science Education (OSE) is offering 10 conference awards 鈥� worth up to $2,000 each 鈥� to students, staff and faculty in the Faculty of Science. The awards will support members of the Faculty who would like to participate in scholarly exchange related to science education at the local, national or international level.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2019
By Anna Hayden
(This blogpost is the second in a series that explores the Earth and Planetary Sciences Learning Community pilot project.)
Hand lens, compass, rock hammer 鈥� tools of the trade of a geologist. But what鈥檚 in our writing toolkit? Is there a Swiss Army knife for writing? In fact, an Earth and Planetary Sciences Learning Community meeting focused on equipping its members with such a tool, the A.P.O.S. framework.
Published on: 24 Oct 2019
A new course available to students in science programs puts students in the driver鈥檚 seat. Offered through the Faculty of Science, the聽Research Project in Science Teaching and Learning聽(FSCI 396) introduces undergraduate students to pedagogical research, educational assessment, and resource design in university-level science education settings.
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Published on: 21 Oct 2019
Crowdmark 鈥撀燼n online grading tool developed especially to handle large classes 鈥撀爃as been attracting a growing following across North America, with members of 海角社区鈥檚 own Faculty of Science among its most ardent enthusiasts. Kira Smith, reporter-at-large for the OSE, went undercover to find out more.
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Published on: 6 Sep 2019
By Anna Hayden
Our meeting place has a few different names: Frank Dawson Adams 232, The Gill Room, but when we met together, it was home to the Earth and Planetary Sciences Learning Community. As the only student in the room of professors and university staff, would I be taking an exam? It turns out, I would wear many hats as part of the Learning Community, including that of a facilitator鈥�
Published on: 30 Aug 2019
By Kira Smith
Published on: 12 May 2019
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