Tuesday, August 13, 2024
TRACE (Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement) Tuesday is a day of presentations and sessions devoted to a focus on faculty. All Marshall University faculty are invited to attend. Presentations will highlight the work of several distinguished faculty members, including several award-winning faculty members. The day will end with an informational session about community engagement.
TRACE Tuesday Schedule (All sessions will be held in the Shawkey Dining Room in the MSC.)
- 8.00 – 8.30 Welcome
- 8.30 – 9.30 Plenary Address: Don’t Go It Alone: Collaboration is the Key to Great Teaching (Laura R. McCunn, Professor of Chemistry 2023/2024 Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award Winner)
- 9:30 – 9:45 Break
- 9.45 – 10.45 Research Presentation: Design and Fabrication of Patient-Specific Implants for Treatment of Bone Fractures (Ross Salary, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering 2023/2024 DASA Award Winner)
- 10.45 – 11.00 Break
- 11.00 – 12.00 Teaching Presentation: Defining Intellectual Risk-Taking in Our and Our Students’ Writing (Meghan Hancock, Department of English, 2024 Hedrick Faculty Teaching Fellowship Award Winner)
- 12.00 – 1.00 Lunch (on your own)
- 1.00 – 2.00 Pedagogical Trends in Higher Education: Focus on AI (Bill Gardner, Shawn Schulenberg, and Jamie Warner, Presidential AI Taskforce Members)
- 2.00 – 2.15 Break
- 2.15 – 3.15 Interactive Session: Perspectives on Teaching and Research (Leslie-Dawn Quick, Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, & Forensic Sciences, 2023/2024 Pickens-Queen Teacher Award Winners)
- 3.15 – 3.30 Break
- 3.30 – 4.30 Community Engagement: Perspectives on Community Engagement, Service Learning, and Pedagogy (Britani Black, Director of Community Based Learning)
Registration is NOT required for this event.
Questions? Email April Fugett at (fugett5@marshall.edu).