Good morning colleagues,
If you are a graduate student or know of a graduate student who is currently looking for a post-doctoral research position, Florida International University in Miami FL is currently seeking talented individuals. Please share this ad with anyone who might be interested.
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
The Organizers for the 2017 Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education Conference (TRUSE) are excited to announce the opening of the TRUSE Graduate Student and Post-doc Travel Award!
The Chemistry Education Research mail list (i.e., cer@listserv.miamioh.edu) is moving to an ACS Division of Chemical Education service and will be managed/moderated by the Chemical Education Research committee.
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) seeks preproposals from higher education institutions for an NSF-funded project to create research-based undergraduate curricula in biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology. Twelve institutions and 24 departments will conduct fundamental research on student, faculty, departmental, and disciplinary influences on the process of integrating and scaffolding undergraduate research experiences throughout the curriculum.
Scott Freeman, Principal Lecturer in Biology at University of Washington-Seattle is leading a team conducting a meta-analysis of how innovations in undergraduate STEM courses have impacted traditional achievement gaps experienced by students who are 1) female, 2) members of underrepresented minorities (African-American, Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian), 3) from low-income backgrounds, and/or 4) first-in-family to complete college.
Scott Freeman, Principal Lecturer in Biology at University of Washington-Seattle is leading a team conducting a meta-analysis of how innovations in undergraduate STEM courses have impacted traditional achievement gaps experienced by students who are 1) female, 2) members of underrepresented minorities (African-American, Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian), 3) from low-income backgrounds, and/or 4) first-in-family to complete college.
The University of Washington -Tacoma is currently searching for a full-time chemistry lecturer. This is a full-time renewable position with an appointment term of one to five years and a nine-month service period. The position will begin on September 16, 2017 and will require a Master’s degree or higher, or foreign equivalent, in chemistry, chemical education, environmental science/engineering, chemical engineering or a related field.There are opportunities to teach research courses, including STEM education research. UWT is a great place to work!
Please consider submitting an abstract for the 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, being held in Toronto, ON, Canada, May 28 – June 1, 2017. This year is Canada’s 150th birthday and we hope you will add to this memorable conference and year! We — Stephen MacNeil (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Alison Flynn (University of Ottawa) — are organizing the Chemistry Education Research symposium and we are looking forward to a great session!
This is a test of the new features of the CER mail list system.
If you are a moderator of the CER mail list, you should receive a message that new content was submitted and is ready to be moderated. Currently, those with active accounts and the modertator role are Tom, Marilyne, Jack, and my test user Moderator CER. Please notify me that you received the notification message by forewarding the message to me at jon.holmes@chemedx.org.
The attached ad was sent to me by a colleague at University of Nebraska - Omaha. It is for a tenure-track position and may be of interest to CER folks who are on the job market and interested in providing leadership in education research.
