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Spring 2021 FMN Announcement: Social Justice and Community Change Faculty Mentoring Network

Entry #958: 13 Nov 2020; 5:20 pm; 0 comments

Social Justice and Community Change

Building CURES with Community Social Justice Impact

Applications Due: December 11, 2020

Our group has been working this fall and has gathered many resources for the project. You will have access to all our resources and the guidance of people who have thought about this. We will do some readings and will continue creating linked CUREs at several levels. Our initial focus is on Redlining and its impact on air quality in neighborhoods. We will use case studies to introduce progressive CURES for environmental science, biology and other STEM courses. Our model is based on citizen science programs.

Apply now to join the Spring 2021 Social Justice and Community Change Faculty Mentoring Network. Applications are due Dec. 11, 2020. Please visit https://qubeshub.org/groups/socialjusticecures for more information and instructions on how to apply.

Participants should commit to the following:

Participate in the full FMN through the Spring 2021 semester
Create and pilot one or elements of the Cases and CURES in your class
Share materials on QUBES

It is important that all participants are able to commit to the full experience. The greatest benefits of these experiences are generated in the interactions with colleagues. Your contributions will be critical to the success of this program.

About the author

Deborah Rook

Deputy Director
@DebRookPaleo

Dr. Deborah Rook is an evolutionary biologist and paleontologist. She has a bachelor's degree in Biology and Evolutionary biology from Case Western Reserve University and a masters in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology from Ohio State University, having studied evolutionary and ecological dynamics of Cenozoic mammals. For her PhD, she moved into Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on dynamic interactions of the rock and fossil records. Biology education has always been a focus for her, having taught and studied pedagogical techniques throughout her graduate studies and beyond. She joined the QUBES team in September 2017 as the FMN Project Manager, where she is working with the Faculty Mentoring Networks to enhance student experiences with quantitative biology, and the Professional Development Manager as our opportunities expanded. Since September 2021, she moved to Deputy Director, where she continues to work in the professional development space but now also manages staff and assists the Executive Director with business aspects of the organization.

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