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United States History Professional Development Workshop

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On September 13th, UConn Early College Experience Faculty Coordinator for United States History, Prof. Matthew McKenzie welcomed his group of 40 UConn ECE certified HIST 1501 and 1502 instructors to attend their annual professional development training. This year Prof. McKenzie spent the morning leading the group in a discussion about The Myth of Objectivity, The Omnipresence (and Therefore Irrelevance) of “Bias,” and "Teaching History as Discursive Process. Later they discussed Teaching History in a Politically Polarized Age: Where are the Bonds of Civility."

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Sustainable Plant and Soil Systems (SPSS) Professional Development Workshop

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9-12-19 SPSS Professional Development

On September 12th, UConn Early College Experience Faculty Coordinator for SPSS, Prof. Julia Kuzovkina welcomed her group of UConn ECE certified SPSS instructors to attend their annual professional development training. This year the instructors were able to meet with Professor Pamela Ronald from the University of California-Davis and later heard her lecture titled Serving up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food. Dr. Ronald explained how genomic approaches are being used to produce the next generation of crops.

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Philosophy Professional Development Workshop

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9-6-19 UConn ECE Philosophy Workshop

On September 6th, UConn Early College Experience Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy, Prof. Mitch Green welcomed a group of about ten UConn ECE certified PHIL 1001 instructors to attend their annual professional development training.  This year, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rebecca Stangl from the University of Virginia joined the event to speak to instructors about recent trends in Ethics and her forthcoming book.

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Art Professional Development Workshop

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Along with ECE Faculty Coordinator, Cora Lynn Deibler, certified UConn ECE ART 1030: Drawing I instructors were able to visit the Thomas J. Dodd Center on the Storrs campus at to take a firsthand look at the Maurice Sendak archives.  Recently, the Maurice Sendak Foundation chose to share Sendak’s archives with the University of Connecticut who are now housing and stewarding the Collection.  Project Archivist, Clara Nguyen shared her knowledge with the group who were able to learn more about Sendak’s life, and view his original artwork, sketches, books and other materials.

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Animal Science Professional Development Workshop

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Our certified Animal Science instructors along with Faculty Coordinators Dr. Jenifer Nadeu and Dr. Amy Safran met with Dr. Julia Wilkinson from Tufts Veterinary Field Service to learn about equine aging and dentistry in a hands on science lab. The group of 12 certified animal science instructors were able to tour the horse barns and observe Dr. Wilkinson floating a horse’s teeth.  This routine procedure involves filing a horse’s teeth to make the chewing surfaces relatively flat or smooth as a part of overall equine health.

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Biology Professional Development Workshop

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Dr. Thomas Abbott, faculty coordinator for UConn ECE Biology and a group of fifty certified instructors discussed all things insects. Special guest speaker, from UConn’s EEB department, Professor David L. Wagner shared his research on caterpillars with the group in an interactive presentation during the morning. In the afternoon, instructors were able to tour UConn’s Research greenhouses under guidance by Living Plant Collections Manager, Clinton Morse.  Instructors walked through each zone getting to take a close look at the thousands of plants thriving in the greenhouses. Later groups of instructors were able to visit the Biodiversity Research Collections with Dr. Sarah Taylor and Dr. Jane O’Donnell who shared a variety of samples from the Collections with the instructors.

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