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12pm, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Michael Orr, Art History at Lawrence University & ACE Fellow. Orr will discuss his current research on a late sixteenth-century prayerbook in a Wisconsin private collection that can be identified as having been written and illuminated by nuns from the Cistercian abbey of La Cambre, near Brussels. He will examine evidence indicating that the manuscript was made as a gift for the recently appointed governor of the Southern Netherlands, Cardinal Archduke Albert VII of Austria, and consider how this book sheds new light on the use of illuminated manuscripts in the exchange economy of monastic patronage. This event is open to all faculty. Lunch provided. No RSVP necessary.
Lilly Summer Fellows Information Session
12pm, Davis Court, Markim Hall
Rising juniors and seniors are invited to attend this information session to learn more about this Lilly Summer Fellows Program. Students explore vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.
Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.
12pm, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Brooke Lea, Psychology. Can current theories of cognitive science help us understand how readers understand poetry? Cognitive psychologist Brooke Lea, a former English major (in recovery), and his students use experimental techniques to investigate the role that poetic devices such as alliteration and rhyme play in the comprehension of poetry. The findings support both modern theories of cognition and ancient notions about of the memorial consequences of poetic devices. A second study reveals surprising expert/novice differences. The presenter will discuss methods for getting more poetry in your academic life. This event is open to all faculty. Lunch provided. No RSVP necessary.
Lilly Summer Fellows Information Session
4:30pm, Davis Court, Markim Hall
Rising juniors and seniors are invited to attend this information session to learn more about this Lilly Summer Fellows Program. Students explore vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.
Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.
Lilly Summer Fellows Information Session
12pm, Davis Court, Markim Hall
Rising juniors and seniors are invited to attend this information session to learn more about this Lilly Summer Fellows Program. Students explore vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.
Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.
12pm, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Grading, Grade Inflation, and the Visiting Faculty Member. You may have heard rumors that adjunct and visiting faculty have a disproportionate upward effect on Macalester students’ grade point averages compared to tenured faculty. Is grade inflation a serious problem at Macalester and are visiting faculty really the culprits? What are the norms for grading in your department? How do you know?
Talking About Teaching -- Active Learning in Large Classes: Examples from Dinosaurs
9am, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Kristina Curry Rogrs, Biology & Geology. Connecting with students in large classes can prove challenging, and making sure that they are truly processing the material you lecture on can be even harder. Curry Rogers will provide a few examples of ways to connect from Dinosaurs, an introductory level Geology course she teaches to ~50 students every year. This event is open to all faculty. Lunch provided. No RSVP required.
12pm, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Roopali Phadke, Environmental Studies. The Obama Administration is channeling billions of dollars into new energy projects, particularly wind energy, in an effort to create green jobs and mitigate climate change. Yet, communities all across the nation are beginning to resist these efforts because of the impacts on rural landscapes and viewspaces. Is wind energy a form of "visual pollution"? Can we build vast new renewable energy capacity while protecting the landscapes we love? Where should new energy projects go and who should decide? Phadke has been studying these questions through her research project on the social acceptance of wind energy. Her talk will use photographs and other artistic responses as a way of discussing how communities in different parts of America are responding and framing their new "windscapes".
11:20am, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
12pm, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library
Lilly Summer Fellows Information Session
12pm, Davis Court, Markim Hall
Rising juniors and seniors are invited to attend this information session to learn more about this Lilly Summer Fellows Program. Students explore vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.
Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.
Lilly Summer Fellows Information Session
4:30pm, Davis Court, Markim Hall
Rising juniors and seniors are invited to attend this information session to learn more about this Lilly Summer Fellows Program. Students explore vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.
Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.
11:20am, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
11:20am, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
11:20am, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
11:20am, Board Room, Weyerhaeuser Hall
