QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK

A Workshop for NSF Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) Grantees on

The Integration of Mathematics into Lower Division Science Courses

Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel ¥ 170 Lt. George W. Lee Avenue, Memphis, TN

October 1-2, 2010

 

AGENDA

 

FRIDAY, October 1

 

AM

 8:00                    Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00                    Opening Plenary Session:

         Introductions and Review of Workshop Purpose, Packet, and Agenda

   Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

 

 9:15                    Plenary Session:

                           Critical Interfaces of Mathematics and Science in Research and Education

                           Keynote Speaker: Fadil Santosa, Director

                                            Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) and

        Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

    Introduction of Speaker: Monica Mitchell, President, MERAssociates

 

10:00                   Panel: Potential of the Integration of Mathematics into Lower level Science
Courses to Retain Students on the STEM Pathway/Inspire Students to
Pursue a STEM Major and/or Career 

                              

  Camille McKayle, Dean of Science and Mathematics Division and

        Associate Professor of Mathematics

               University of the Virgin Islands

  Richard Al—, Program Officer, Robert S. Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

               Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

               Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)

               National Science Foundation (NSF)

  Panel Moderator: J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

 

10:45                  Break

 

11:00                  Four Concurrent Sessions: 

 Focus – Integrating Mathematics in Undergraduate Science Courses

                            

Concurrent Session I - Biology

Presenter: William Boecklen, Professor, Department of Biology

                New Mexico State University

Facilitator: Arthur Grider, Associate Professor

                Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia

                         Recorder/Reporter: Ruby Broadway, Associate Professor

                                                    Department of Biology, Dillard University

                            

Biology Concurrent Session II - Biology

Presenter:  Joseph Whittaker, Dean, School of Computer, Mathematical and

    Natural Sciences, Morgan State University

                         Facilitator: Camille McKayle, University of the Virgin Islands

Recorder/Reporter: Joseph Olubadewo, Associate Professor

                            Department of Biology, Southern University at New Orleans

 

Concurrent Session III – Chemistry

Presenter:  Alvin Kennedy, Professor and Chair

                  Department of Chemistry, Morgan State University

Facilitator: Cass Parker, Associate Professor and Chair

                   Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University

Recorder/Reporter: Maurice Edington, Associate Professor

      Department of Mathematics, Florida A&M University

 

Concurrent Session IV – Physics

Presenter: Edward Thomas, Jr., Professor

     Department of Physics, Auburn University

Facilitator: Larry Mattix, Associate Dean, College of Science, Engineering, and   
          Technology and Professor of Physics, Norfolk State University

Recorder/Reporter: Catherine Newell, Assistant Professor

                                   Department of Physics, Kentucky State University      

PM

12:30                Working Lunch

- Table Discussions of Areas for Mathematics Integration

- Plenary Reporting-out by Reporters from Concurrent Sessions

                        Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

 

 2:00                Plenary Panel: Discussion of Relevant and Recent National Science Foundation  
                         (NSF)-funded Projects: Insights, Experiences, and Lessons Learned                                           

Presenters: 

Developing a Learning-centered Environment for Algebra-based Physics

                          Paula Engelhardt, Principal Investigator, Tennessee Technological University       

Informatics as Targeted Infusion for Education and Research in the Sciences

(iTIERS) Program

                          Joseph Whittaker, Principal Investigator, Morgan State University

 

 Discussion Facilitator:  Monica Mitchell, MERAssociates

 

 2:30                 Break

 

 2:45                 Concurrent Sessions:  (Same Breakout Groups as in AM)

Focus –Participants identify specific mathematical concepts to be integrated into
the science courses identified during the AM breakout session and discuss how
the integration is to be achieved/how the concepts are to be introduced

 

 4:00                 Plenary Panel:  Research as a Catalyst for Mathematics Integration

Presenters: 

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Research

Kimberly Kendricks, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics

Central State University

Research Mentoring in Mathematical Biology at New Mexico State University

William Boecklen, Principal Investigator, New Mexico State University

 

                         Panel Moderator:  Monica Mitchell, MERAssociates

 

 5:00                 Dinner (on your own)

 

Overnight Assignment:

Institutional Teams are to prepare and turn in the next morning a brief description of the content
of the Science Course(s) to be changed/added at their respective institutions

 

SATURDAY, October 2

 

AM

 8:00                  Continental Breakfast and Submission of Overnight Assignment

 

 9:00                  Plenary Session: Applications and Applied Mathematics:

                                                         An International Journal (AAM)

                          Speaker: Aliakbar Haghighi, Professor and Head

                                              Department of Mathematics

                                              Prairie View A&M University

                          Introduction of Speaker: J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

 

9:45                  Plenary Session:  Inquiry-based Learning and Student Assessment in STEM

   Interdisciplinary Settings

                           Speaker:  Camille McKayle, University of the Virgin Islands

 Introduction of Speaker:  Monica Mitchell, MERAssociates

 

10:15                 Break

 

10:30                 Plenary Session:  The STEM Faculty Pipeline – Increasing the Number of
African Americans in the HBCU STEM Professoriate

                          Speaker:    A. James Hicks, Program Director

                                                 Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

                                                 Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF

Introduction of Speaker:  Monica Mitchell, MERAssociates

 

11:00                Concurrent Sessions:  (Continue in Assigned Groups from Previous Day)

                         Focus – Teams discuss whether the workshop has reinforced/changed their
thinking with respect to the Science Courses to be added/modified  

PM

12:15                Working Lunch

 

                        Group Discussion:  Getting Buy-In on Mathematics-based Curriculum Change
from other STEM faculty and from Administrators

                        Discussion Facilitator:  Althea Burns, Associate and Conference Coordinator

                                                              QEM Network

 

  1:30                Plenary Session: Preparing Students for Graduate Study in Emerging Areas of
Science Growing out of the Integration of Mathematics/Computer Science into
other Science Disciplines

                            

Presenters:  

Arthur Grider, University of Georgia

Glake Hill, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

               Jackson State University

A. James Hicks, Program Director, NSF

Discussion Facilitator: J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

 

  2:15                 Plenary Session:  Potential Funding Opportunities

                          - Targeted Infusion Grants (TIG)

                                     Camille McKayle, University of the Virgin Islands

- Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and
Mathematical Sciences (UBM)

             J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

             Monica Mitchell, MERAssociates

- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent

Expansion Program (STEP)

       Shirley McBay, QEM Network

-   Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) and

-    Robert S. Noyce Teacher Scholarship Programs                        

       Richard Al—, Program Officer, DUE/EHR, NSF 

                            

  3:00                   Closing Plenary:  Participant Reflections and Next Steps

                             Facilitator:  Shirley McBay, QEM Network

 

  3:30                   Adjournment