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.Opens in new window Opens in new window

 

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.