News Archive
October 2024: Catalyst members awarded NSF grant to estabish a community of faculty modifying their instruction to be more student-center, equity-focused, and pedagogically engaging. Stay tuned for more information!
April 2024: NSM faculty come together to discuss thet Equitable Pedagogy Modules and support each others' in modifying their syllabi to be more equitable.
October 2023: Dr. Cassandra Paul from SJSU was our 2023-2024 Catalyst Speaker with her talk on "Equitable Grading Research & Practice". Read more about Dr. Paul's research.
January 2023: Associate Professor of Physics and incoming director of the Catalyst Center published a paper in the American Journal of Physics on how to use active learning techniques in teaching quantum mechanics.
August 2021: Professor Joel K. Abraham, director of the Catalyst Center, is co-PI on a 1.5 million dollar NSF IUSE proposal to develop new approaches to teaching graph construction skills to introductory biology students.