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Just-in-Time Teaching Conference August 19th and 20th
Aug. 9, 2019—It’s never too late to make a good decision, right? Although planning fall courses starts long before the start of classes, we recognize that many instructors are still making course design and implementation decisions right up to the wire. That’s why we’re offering a variety of teaching workshops for Vanderbilt instructors on August 19th and...
Signal-to-noise in the classroom
Aug. 5, 2019—by Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Associate Director I’ve been thinking a lot about signal-to-noise ratio this summer. My post-doctoral research relied heavily on mass spectrometry of complex mixtures, and we thought a lot about signal-to-noise and whether we were missing the thing we were after in a sea of other things our instrument could detect....
Exciting Changes to the Certificate in College Teaching Program!
Jul. 15, 2019—In Fall 2019, the CFT will be rolling out exciting changes to the Certificate in College Teaching (CiCT) program. Previously, we offered a Certificate in College Teaching (CiCT) and Certificate in Humanities Teaching and Learning (CHTL) for Vanderbilt graduate students and postdocs. The CHTL shared a lot of core features of the CiCT in order...
Junior Faculty Spotlight: Susan Douglas
Jul. 12, 2019—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. In this spotlight, Susan Douglas, Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. I have been in a teaching role at Vanderbilt University since 2014. I started as a part-time assistant professor of the practice in the Psychology...
Junior Faculty Spotlight: Kejia Hu
Jul. 11, 2019—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. In this spotlight, Kejia Hu, Operations Management, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management. My research mainly focuses on empirical operations management on service operations and...
Junior Faculty Spotlight: Yuankai (Kenny) Tao
Jul. 10, 2019—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This time, we highlighted Yuankai Kenny Tao, Biomedical Engineering, who talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. I have been an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University since 2016. I am the director of the Diagnostic Imaging and Image-Guided...
Junior Faculty Spotlight: Sophie Bjork-James
Jul. 9, 2019—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Sophie Bjork-James, Anthropology, talks about her eaching philosophy and interests. I teach anthropology classes on reproductive politics, race and racism, and climate change. Modeling how to engage in controversial conversations in productive ways is thus a focus of my...