Month: February 2022

Spring 2022 UConn ECE Environmental Science Workshop

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Spring 2022 UConn ECE Environmental Science Workshop

On Wednesday, February 23rd,  UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Environmental Science, Prof. Morty Ortega met with certified NRE Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Guest Lectures:

  • Evan Ward, Department of Marine Sciences, UConn: “Plastic pollution in marine environments: Knowns, unknowns, and uncertainties”
  • Kelly Crandall, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, UConn: “Microplastics, the Microbiome, and how they relate to each other”

*slide from Dr. Ward's presentation

The group also discussed their UConn NRE 1000E courses they are offering in their high schools with Dr. Ortega.

 

UConn Environmental Science courses offered through ECE.

Spring 2022 UConn ECE HIST 1300 Workshop

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Spring 2022 UConn ECE History Workshop

On Tuesday, February 15th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for HIST 1300, Prof. Sherri Olson met with certified History Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Dr. Olson spoke with the group about the courses they are offering in their high schools and then they discussed Stephen D. White’s article: “Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1100,” from Thomas N. Bisson, ed., Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe (UPenn Press, 1995): pp. 89-123.

 

UConn History courses offered through ECE.