Dr. Susana Wadgymar hosts a lunch conversation to exchange logistical tips for mentoring effective undergraduate research experiences including building community, setting norms, managing projects, and communicating. Register in advance for lunch.
Dr. David Graham hosts a conversation to share strategies that supporting the mental health and wellness of both students and faculty/staff members, which can be challenging to balance.
Nick Nguyen ’22 (Mayo Clinic) shares his ethnography examining the challenges, barriers and moments of resistance that BIPOC premedical students experience both at Davidson College and within the larger context of American medicine.
MILE Student Advisors host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share their positive and negative experiences with a variety of class participation approaches such as cold calling, think-pair-share, and more.
Dr. Sarah Gaither (Duke) shares her research examining how diversity shapes social interactions, how multiple racial and social identities affect behaviors, and how contexts shape the development of racial perceptions and biases.
Dr. Leyte Winfield (Spelman) shares insights on how faculty and staff members can develop their cultural competencies to enhance learning experiences of all students, especially those with marginalized identities that STEM has excluded.
MILE students host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share strategies that help students respond effectively to the many stressors that influence their learning and self efficacy.
Dr. Mark Barsoum hosts a discussion of an important study, Drawing on Internal Strengths and Creating Spaces for Growth: How
Black Science Majors Navigate the Racial Climate at PWIs to Succeed, by Stanton et al. (2022).
A panel of STEM faculty members (Snyder, Zhang, Barsoum, Kuchera, Stutts) share their experiences navigating self doubts and the important lessons they learned.
MILE students host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share their positive and negative experiences with various teaching and learning strategies (e.g., lectures, flipped classrooms, group work).
