Fall 2017 PER Seminar Schedule

Location: Cardwell 119

Days/Time: Mondays at 2:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)

Date	Speaker	Organization	Title
8/28	Organizational Meeting
9/4	No Seminar - Labor Day
9/11	Discussion Session with Michael Ranney on Ranney, M. & Schank, P. (1998). Toward an integration of the social and the scientific: Observing, modeling, and promoting the explanatory coherence of reasoning. In S. Read and L. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior (pp. 245-274). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
9/18	Discussion Session led by Ginny Coghlan on Core Skills for Effective Science Communication: A Teaching Resource for Undergraduate Science Education by L. Mercer-Mapstone & L. Kuchel
9/25	Scott Tanona	K-State Philosophy	Public Values and the Ethics of Science Communication
10/2	Ben Archibeque	K-State Physics	Planning GROW
10/9	Discussion Session on the NRC 2009 report “Learning Science in Informal Environments”
10/16	Nandana Weliweriya Liyanage	K-State Physics	Students' Use of Multiple Representations in Upper-Division Physics Problem Solving: Update and Future Work
10/23	Han Yu	K-State English	Creating effective scientific visual communication
10/30	Jared Bixby	Sunset Zoo	Sunset Zoo: Bridging Gaps in Science Communication
11/6	Poster Review for Research and the State
11/13	Spring 2018 Planning Meeting
11/20	No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/27	Group Meeting with Danny Caballero, Michigan State University
12/4	PER Seminar - Practice Talk for Dina Zohrabi Alaee's Oral Exam
12/5 or 12/6	PER Seminar - Practice Talk for Tra Thi Thanh Huynh's Oral Exam