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Celebration of Learning Spotlight: Reading Between the Lines

When the chance to conduct independent research arose, engineering student Allison Witte accepted the opportunity and developed her own project. Entitled Reading Between the Lines: What the News is Really Saying About Water Issues, the project focused on water conservation and how the news conveys information about water quality and issues to the public. The…

Posted by on April 25, 2018 in Celebration of Learning, Commentary, Events, Student Projects, Students as Producers

Celebration of Learning Spotlight: Existing Quietly, Living Loudly

Senior mechanical engineering student Elizabeth Lee is happy to have tapped back into her drawing and arts roots. Throughout college, she claims she stuck more to her science, math, and engineering interests, but now in her senior year, she’s returning to an old pastime: drawing. Elizabeth’s project, Existing Quietly, Living Loudly is a web comic…

Posted by on April 19, 2018 in Celebration of Learning, Commentary, Events, Student Projects, Students as Producers

Celebration of Learning Spotlight: Mean Sea Level Trends in Regions of the U.S.

First-year Human Organization and Development student Marguerite Manning never considered going into environmental policy until now. Marguerite recently presented her poster Mean Sea Level Trends in Regions of the U.S. at the Vanderbilt Celebration of Learning where she developed this project for an Earth and Environmental Science lab course she was taking. In her project,…

Posted by on April 10, 2018 in Celebration of Learning, Commentary, Events, Student Poster Sessions, Student Projects, Students as Producers

Celebration of Learning Spotlight: Using Scalar to Display Vanderbilt University’s Drawings of the Woolworth Building

Architectural drawings and history are of interest to many people, but unfolding and examining these documents can be problematic as they’re very delicate, especially if they’re older. However, thanks to Ellen Dement, there may be a way to appreciate and study these drawings without damaging the original document. For Ellen, the project stated as a…

Posted by on April 5, 2018 in Celebration of Learning, Commentary, Events, Student Projects, Students as Producers

Grading Writing Assignments in Less than a Lifetime

by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director One of the greatest stresses experienced by new faculty (and not-so-new faculty) is the amount of time spent on effective teaching. Parkinson’s Law—the notion that a task expands to fill the time available—seems more true…

Posted by on August 15, 2014 in Commentary, Events, Resource

What Can Faculty Do about Students’ Classroom-Based Anxieties? More Than You Think.

by Nancy Chick (CFT Assistant Director) Last week, The Princeton Review released its annual list of “The Top 10 Colleges for ___,” and Vanderbilt made a big splash by ranking #1 with the Happiest College Students in the US.*  While this…

Posted by on August 4, 2014 in Commentary, Events, Faculty Teaching Workshop, Mindfulness, Resource, stress

The Mindful PhD: After the Honeymoon

by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director My class is still in the “honeymoon phase,” those carefree weeks in the beginning of the semester when students and instructor alike enjoy each other’s company and insights, before any major papers or exams complicate…

Posted by on January 29, 2014 in Commentary, Events, mindful

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