Events

Mao-Ren Tseng giving presentation at CREATE Community Talk

Welcome to the CREATE for STEM's Events page! We sponsor, support, and host many STEM education research events in our suite and around campus, and are excited to offer an option to join our contact list from our website. Just click here to complete the (very short) form, or use the orange box on our homepage, and you will be added to our mailing list for upcoming CREATE events and other happenings that may be of interest to our community.  

We are happy to help promote your STEM education research event, too!  Please let us know if there are conferences, workshops, presentations, etc... that you would like posted on the CREATE Events page and shared on our social media channels. 

Last year, we kicked off the CREATE Community Talks series. Focused on junior researchers, we wanted to offer opportunities to share work and get feedback from colleagues in a casual, friendly, in-person, low-stakes environment. Thanks to everyone who participated, either by presenting or by attending and offering your thoughts and questions to our presenters. A full list of last year's sessions will be available on our YouTube channel in the near future. 

For AY 26-27, we are coordinating TWO tracks (see below) and offering them on various days during the month to allow for as many people as possible to join in.

We hope to see many of you this year in CREATE and around campus.  GO GREEN!

Past Events

  • 12 Dec 19:00

    Matthew Kloser, December 12, 2018

    Matthew Kloser is an Associate Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the founding director of the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. His talk was titled "Is Biology Education Evolving? Critiquing Three Cases of High School and Undergraduate Biology Education Reform."
  • 29 Nov 19:00

    Marcy Towns, November 29, 2017

    Presentation: Blending chemical and mathematical knowledge as solve problems in chemical kinetics. Answering recent calls for discipline-based education research and interdisciplinary work
  • 28 Nov 19:00

    Christa Haverly, November 28, 2018

    Christa Haverly is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Her talk was titled "Developing Urban Elementary Teachers' Responsiveness to Students' Scientific Sense-Making."
  • 14 Nov 19:00

    Kevin Haudek, November 14, 2018

    Kevin Haudek is an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. His talk was titled "Using Automated Analysis to Reveal Student Thinking."
  • 07 Nov 19:00

    Marilyne Stains, November 7, 2018

    Marilyne Stains is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her talk was titled "Important of Characterizing STEM Faculty Members' Instructional Mindsets and Practices in an Era of Instructional Transformation."
  • 24 Oct 19:00

    Louise Mead and Alexa Warwick, October 24, 2018

    Dr. Louise Mead is the Education Director at the BEACON Center at MSU, and Dr. Alexa Warwick is the Evolution and Outreach Postdoc at the BEACON Center at MSU. Their talk was titled "ConnectedBio Curriculum: Three-Dimensional Learning from Molecules to Populations."
  • 18 Apr 19:00

    Barbara Hug, April 18, 2018

    Barbara Hug is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk was titled "Using Ecosystem Models to Examine Students' Developing Understanding of Vector-Borne Disease."
  • 28 Mar 19:00

    Kristen St. John, March 28, 2018

    Kristen St. John is a professor of Geology at James Madison University. Her talk was titled "Building a Stronger DBER Community: Disciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Examples."
  • 24 Jan 19:00

    Mary Besterfield-Sacre, January 24, 2018

    Mary Besterfield-Sacre is a Nikolas A. Dececco Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh.