Biosciences Peer Observation Program

08 Aug 2023

I have led on the peer observation program which is a collaboration between chemistry and biological sciences faculty to engage with mutual peer observations. The main idea is to disseminate best practices within our departments and to begin professional coaching discussions, allowing for pedagogical collaborations between our faculty. We aim to hold a review meeting May 5th and will showcase our findings at the forthcoming summer symposium

C@CMU - Immigration Course Discussions

As part of the introduction of the new core competencies at CMU-Q, discussions were held with Dean Dudley about the timing, core skills and logistics of introducing this course and its impact on the first year immigration courses. I was representing and sharing best practices from the Eureka course. We highlighted where there are overlaps and where we diverge in terms of socialization of incoming freshmen students.

Chemistry Faculty Recruitment Committee

06 Nov 2022

Prepared rubrics to help assess candidates for an Assistant Teaching Professor position at CMU-Q to replace Ravi Bachu. Assisted with screning, interviews and provided feedback on candidates

Chemistry TA Search Committee

31 Jul 2022-08/20/2022 00:00:00

I was involved with the review of the short list, preparation of exam question for candidates to prepare, the interview and subsequent discourse concerning the selection of an appropriate candidate for this position. This was in collaboration with Professor’s Rule, Vincent and Bachu

Committee for Outstanding Academic Support Award

12 Apr 2020-07/30/2021 00:00:00

Processing nominations for TA/ARC award as well as revamping nomination process and criteria.

Dedication to Students Academic Excellence Award Committee

15 Apr 2020

EcoCampus Committee

16 Aug 2022

I am a document control coordinator for the Eco Campus Steering Committee. I have been responsible for gathering the evidence required to help CMU-Q’s application for the Green Flag and its efforts to towards becoming a sustainable campus. Whilst serving on this committee, I have been an active member of the Go Green subcommittee, where I have contributed ideas and attended events throughout the academic year promoting the reduce, reuse and recycle campaigns. This academic year (2023-2024), I coordinated the annual retreat to continue working on our documentation, contributed to the writing of the CMU-Q’s sustainability charter, acted as a project manager for our digital passport application in conjunction with IS students on the Community Partners project, and presented this work at the first Eco Campus conference in Lisbon, Portugal. I was also responsible for helping to create several student worker positions within our committee and coordinated the interview process. I then line managed our student general admin worker throughout this year and I will continue working with him throughout the summer to ready our Green flag application this coming Fall semester.

Eureka visits the Library Sessions - Planning

11 Aug 2021

We have worked with the library and various members of the library staff to introduce the resources of the library to the Biological Sciences program since 2021. Key to this partnership has been the review of different types of sources and their pros and cons for scientific presentation and academic research. This year (2023-2024), we worked closely with Dr Reya Saliba in producing a new emphasis on sustainability within Biological Sciences and continued to build on learning to use citation software, library databases and to evaluate sources of information for their credibility.

Great Chemistry Quiz 2022

09 Jan 2022-04/14/2022 00:00:00

This is an outreach event, where we host schools (virtually) to compete against one another in a quiz delivered through Canvas. We also use the event to interact with the local community and canvas their outreach needs.

Meeting of the Minds - Undergraduate Research Symposium

26 Apr 2022-04/26/2022 00:00:00

At this event, I acted as a judge for posters. Before the event, I prejudges a number of posters to provide intital scores for up to 50% of the grade. At the event I worked with the external judges, chaperoning them to and and from the posters they were judging. We scored the posters for the remaining 50% of the grade. I collated these scores and passed them to Dean Selma.

Micro Review Committee

24 Feb 2021

I have been on this committee since 2021. Responsible for reviewing micro course proposals for the upcoming academic year (2023-24). The Microcourse initiative involves main campus faculty developing and delivering 5-6 week, 3-unit courses in various disciplines to CMU-Q students. Despite their abbreviated nature, every Microcourse should ensure a meaningful academic learning experience for the enrolled students. The committee’s task is to assess the proposals submitted (using a rubric to facilitate a fair and equitable assessment), and to present to the Dean a review of each micro with a ranking (it is intended that no more than 10 micros would be offered per semester) to consider for approval. This is a continuing service. I completed the same activity again this year

Outstanding Academic Support Award

12 Apr 2020

Codesigned the eligibility and selection crtieria for the award process and evaluated the current process

Teaching & Learning Summit Advisory Board

28 Mar 2022

Rpresented CMU-Q by serving on the Advisory Board for the 2022 Teaching & Learning Summit. The Summit occurs this year in late September. The purpose of this service is to support community-building around teaching and learning, primarily through dialogue and sharing among participants regarding innovative and evidence-based teaching and learning strategies. Approximately 200 faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff attended each of the previous Summits. This year, the Summit will take place over two days, with the first day being virtual and the second day being in-person at the Pittsburgh campus. Provided feedback to ensure that this year’s event will be well-aligned with instructors’ needs and interests across campus.