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In general, the following projects hold one or more workshops each year on a variety of topics.

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On the Cutting Edge - The On the Cutting Edge project runs a series of faculty professional development workshops every year. Topics range from preparation for an academic career to designing innovative courses to emerging themes such as teaching with visualizations and incorporating new discoveries from planetary exploration into geoscience classes. Check out the workshop schedule to get more information on this year's lineup of workshops as well as links to past workshops.

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Building Strong Geoscience Departments - The Building Strong Geoscience Departments project runs workshops focusing on department-level challenges and strategies. Past topics have included curriculum and program design, program assessment, and student recruitment. The workshop page lists upcoming and past workshops.

ACM FaCE project
Associated Colleges of the Midwest: Faculty Career Enhancement Project - Supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ACM Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Project has provided opportunities for faculty at ACM colleges since 2004. With renewed funding from the Mellon Foundation in 2008, Phase II of the FaCE Project supports a variety of new initiatives, building on lessons derived in the first years of activity.

PKAL
Project Kaleidoscope: Pedagogies of Engagement - With support from NSF, PKAL is undertaking a coordinated series of activities that build from and extend the experience and expertise of formal and informal collaborating networks working to promote excellence in undergraduate STEM learning within their constituency. After clicking the link, check under the Collaborations heading in the navigation menu to see the workshops being held with their different partners.

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Upcoming Workshops: You can use the listing below to browse through all the current workshop announcements. These announcements will contain information about each workshop as well as links to the workshop website.

Past Workshops: If there aren't any current announcements available or you are interested in finding material from a past workshop, you can browse through all the websites from past workshops by using this site-wide search.


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2013 Seminar
This call invites ACM faculty to suggest a topic, site, and leadership for the 2013 SAIL seminar, which will take place at an international location. (No U.S. sites will be considered.) Deadline: April 12, 2012 ...

May 2012 Webinar
Webinar: Slapped by the Invisible Hand: Lessons of the 2007 Financial Crisis for Teaching Principles of Economics Gary B. Gorton, Professor of Management and Finance at the Yale School of Management Friday, May ...

Problem Solving & Problem Based Learning Journal Club 2012
Jan 24 - May 29, 2012 January - May, 2012 January 24, February 21, March 27, April 24, May 29 9am -10am Pacific, 10am -11am Mountain, 11am -12pm Central, 12pm -1pm Eastern The application deadline for the Journal Club has passed. ...

The Past, Present, and Future of the Book
Feb 1 - May 30, 2012 Friday-Saturday, February 3-4, 2012 The historic campus of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa The explosion of new digital book technologies has paradoxically energized more traditional studies of the book. This ...

Virtual Course Design - Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry
Mar 31 - Sep 30, 2012 An online workshop with opportunities for face-to-face interaction Beginning March 2012 and ending October 2012. Application deadline: March 1, 2012 Finding the time, energy, and inspiration to develop a new ...

Climate Communication 2012
Apr 2-11 2012 As an example of the importance of communications about climate science, NOAA responds to millions of annual requests for climate data vital to planning and operations. In vulnerable areas, infrastructure can be ...

Climate Complexity Workshop 2012
May 7-16 2012 In this visualization, a model created by NASA, the color variations denote the speed of ocean currents. The lighter green areas are moving faster than the blue areas. Ocean currents are typically driven by ...

Active Learning Strategies for Geoscience Teaching
May 11 2012 This half-day workshop will help college faculty and secondary-school teachers in the Earth sciences to introduce active-learning strategies into predominantly lecture-based classes. Participants will be introduced to a schema for developing their own materials, and will have an opportunity to develop and review such activities. These will be collected for inclusion on the On the Cutting Edge website. Participants will leave the workshop with the pedagogical foundation and in-class learning resources they need to better engage their students.

Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability
May 23-25 2012 Stanford University, CA May 23-25, 2012 Application deadline: March 5, 2012 Building a sustainable future encompasses many challenges related to energy, natural resources, and the environment. Programs that ...

Teaching Environmental Geology
Jun 3-8 2012 Tom Price iron-ore mine -- Pilbara Desert, Australia. These are the banded-iron formations similar to those preserved in the nearby Karajini Gorge -- January 2008. Image taken by K. Wiese. Teaching Environmental ...

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