CUR newsletter

In this issue… RIT’s Suzanne O’Handley Selected as 2019 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee Letters of Intent for CUR’s AURA Award Due March 26 CUR’s Chemistry Division Seeks Nominations, Outstanding Mentorship Award Housing Options, 2019 UR Programs Conf How Are You Celebrating Undergraduate Research Week 2019? Tell Us by March 31! UR Media Mentions: AR, KY, KS, OK, TN, WV […]

Faculty, doctoral student provide professional development sessions to Peruvian teachers

Boyd Bradbury (School of Teaching and Learning), Erin Gillett (STL), Marci Glessner (STL), Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa (STL) provided professional development sessions to Peruvian elementary and secondary teachers on March 7 and 8, 2019. The sessions focused on 1) Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), 2) evidence-based instructional practices in literacy (Tier 1), 3) evidence-based instructional […]

Faculty, doctoral student present at Universidad Tecnológica del Perú

Boyd Bradbury, Erin Gillett, Marci Glessner, Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa presented at the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) in Lima, Peru on March 7, 2019. The presentation introduced the audience to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and to the process of developing local academic norms for the formative assessments measuring the basic early literacy […]

School of Art students’ research highlighted for Women’s History Month

Last semester twelve students participated in Professor Anna S. Arnar’s “Curatorial Projects” seminar in which each student conducted research on artwork by women artists featured in the permanent collection of the Plains Art Museum. The class produced a 97-page catalogue titled “Out of Storage” with essays dedicated to forty-one different artists. These essays are currently being used by the Plains […]