RF CUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: NSF Mid-Career Advancement Program (MCA)

Overview of Webinar: Through MCA, the NSF is seeking to fund mid-career scientists who wish to substantively advance their research program and career trajectory. A primary objective of this program is to ensure that scientists and engineers remain engaged and active in cutting-edge research at a critical career stage replete with constraints on time that

Prepare to be an effective advisor! – Workshop 1

Did you know that once a student is enrolled at the college, advisement become the responsibility of faculty in the academic departments and programs? Find out how to support student

Physics Department presents Indirect Excitons

Presented by Leonid V. Butov, University of California at San Diego A spatially indirect exciton (IX), also known as an interlayer exciton, is a bound pair of an electron and a hole confined in separated layers. Due to their long lifetimes, IXs can cool below the temperature of quantum degeneracy and can travel long distances.

Prepare to be an effective advisor! – Workshop 1

Did you know that once a student is enrolled at the college, advisement become the responsibility of faculty in the academic departments and programs? Find out how to support student academic and career goals through accurate empathetic advisement. These workshops are designed for new faculty, but will be useful to anyone seeking a refresher. Topics

Engaging Students Through Writing: An Introduction to WAC Principles

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) will run one faculty workshop this fall. Want to increase engagement in your classroom and help your students become better thinkers? Join us to discuss effective, research-backed ways to do so based on Writing Across the Curriculum principles. The workshop stands alone but is also a great opportunity for faculty

Prepare to be an effective advisor! – Workshop 2

Did you know that once a student is enrolled at the college, advisement become the responsibility of faculty in the academic departments and programs? Find out how to support student academic and career goals through accurate empathetic advisement. These workshops are designed for new faculty, but will be useful to anyone seeking a refresher. Topics

An Introduction to Difficult Dialogues in (and out of) the Classroom

In an increasingly polarized country where all of us tend to stay within our own identity groups, how do we strive to transform conflict across difference? What are the skillsets that we need to practice in order to understand conflict and, more importantly, each other? In and out of our classrooms, how can we create