February 3
Room C-199 IMIG
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Reception to follow
Room C-113 IMIG
5:00-5:30 PM

Community Outreach Through the Arts
Presented by the GTP Art Team
Valerie Albicker, Administrative Director, Artsbridge
Peggy Bruns, Director, Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts
Beth Osnes, Professor, Theatre
Jason Bisping, Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre and Dance
Are you interested in learning about ways that you can give back to your community? Come learn about how service-based teaching can enrich the local arts community, what community outreach projects are happening NOW at CU and in the Boulder area, and how you can get involved with community outreach projects

New Media in Teaching
Presented by GTP Social Sciences Team 1
Nabil Echchaibi, Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Anna MacBriar, Instructor, Program in Writing & Rhetoric
Technology didn’t stop with PowerPoint. Join us for a discussion on how new media formats such as blogs and wikis can be used to engage students and promote learning.

February 24
UMC 382
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Making the Humanities Relevant
Lori Emerson, Professor of English
Marlia Banning,Professor, Communication
Claudia Mills, Professor, Philosophy
Why Books and Humans Matter in an Age of Science and Technology.

February 10
100 ATLAS
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

Academic Careers Panel: How Teaching Now Can Get You A Job Later
Presented by GTP Science Team “Old School Rock Hard Sciences”
Seth Hornstein, Senior Instructor, Astrophysical and Plantary Aciences
Lon Abbott, Senior Instructor, Geology
Robert Winn, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Denver, Anschulz Medical Campus
In this workshop the panelists will discuss what academic careers are available to STEM grads, what teaching experience is important to being hired in these careers, and how to organize a teaching portfolio/CV to be more competitive in the academic job market. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better idea of what type of academic career interests you, as well as how your present and future teaching experience applies to that career.

Science Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Presented by GTP Science Team “Biohazard”
Rob Knight, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jim White, Environmental Studies and Geological Sciences
McCollom, Laboratory for Atmospheric adn Space Physics
Brett Melbourne, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
One of the most challenging tasks in the academic, scientific, and/or clinical worlds is working with people from other disciplines. When this is attempted, there are often differences that are extremely difficult to overcome. However, some are able to prevail in interdisciplinary collaboration and attain great results. In fact, these results are often better than those achieved through single discipline work. During the Interdisciplinary Collaboration Workshop we will tap into the experience of several expert panelists in order to elicit important techniques in succeeding in interdisciplinary collaboration.

Introductory Course Teaching: Problems, Solutions and Things that Work
Presented by GTP Social Sciences Team “WASP 2”
Lori Hunter, Associate Professor, Sociology
Lisa Dilling, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Lisa Dilling (ENVS) and Lori Hunter (SOCY) will draw on their diverse teaching experiences to share their challenges in teaching introductory courses and discuss proven methods for overcoming these challenges. The workshop aims to expose students to common challenges, allow them the opportunity to openly engage these issues, and give them tools for overcoming these problems.

Shock Therapy: Returning to the Basics of Language Learning
Presented by the GTP Language Team “Babel’ing Gaijins”
Amber Hsinyi Navarre, Senior Instructor, Chinese
The focus of this workshop is beginning a new language. It will explore the question: “What is it like to start a new language, beginning with the basics.” It is easy for teachers of foreign language to take for granted a basic knowledge of the target language, and hence we often overlook the needs of our students, who are entirely unfamiliar with even the most rudimentary aspects of a second language. This workshop will offer refreshing insight into what aspects of beginning level language courses need to be emphasized.

February 24
1B70 DLC
12:00 NOON -1:00 PM

Being Faculty: What I Wish I Knew as a Grad Student
Presented by GTP Engineering Team “emt’s”
Steven Nerem, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Mark Rentschler, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Instructor, Mechanical Engineering
Three professors with diverse backgrounds will discuss in an open-forum format what they wish they had known as graduate students about a career as university faculty. Attendees are encouraged to come prepared with questions for the panel.