"The Transformation of Teaching and Learning in the Life Sciences"
Thursday, April 23, 6-9 PM
Each year our club collaborates with the Harvard Alumni Association in selecting an outstanding Harvard faculty member to speak to our club. This year, we are highly honored to host Professor Robert Lue who has revolutionized the way life sciences are taught and learned at Harvard. His presentation (including creative visual effects) will be of broad interest to all alums in our area, with a special appeal to educators.
Robert Lue is Director of Life Sciences Education and Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where he has received several teaching awards from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Division of Continuing Education. Rob was also the Dean of the Harvard Summer School of Arts and Sciences.
As Chair of the FAS’s Life Sciences Education Committee, he led in the creation of a new introductory Life Sciences curriculum, which now serves as an integrated foundation for department course offerings in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Biological Anthropology. As part of this broad revision, Rob led an initiative to make innovative computing and visualization an integral part of the curriculum as it evolves.
Rob received his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and has taught undergraduate courses there since 1988. He has developed award-winning educational multimedia on several topics including Understanding HIV and AIDS (1999), Biochemistry: Interactive Learning (2000), and The Inner Life of the Cell (2006). Rob also has a longstanding interest in pre-college education and consequently founded and directs a Harvard life sciences outreach program that now serves over fifty high schools across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. As the recently appointed faculty director of the Harvard-Allston Education Portal, Rob also oversees the integration of undergraduate education with community outreach on Harvard’s new Allston campus.
The title of Professor Lue’s talk is “The Transformation of Teaching and Learning in the Life Sciences”. Given what Rob has done to invigorate Life Science teaching at Harvard, and the focus of his talk on April 23, the club is making a special effort to invite high school science teachers, and students to this program.
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Schedule: |
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6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Networking with cash bar |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner |
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7:30 – 9:00 pm |
Professor Lue will speak and take questions |
Registration: The cost for the dinner and speaker program is: $25 for each Harvard Club member, $25 for a member's first guest and $35 for each additional guest or nonmember. To sign up, please send your check (payable to the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle) to Bob Whyte, 103 Cameron Glen Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27516. Please provide the name of each attendee, your phone number, and any dietary restrictions with your check. Mailed Reservations must be received by April 20.
Online Registration: If you prefer to reserve your seat(s) on line, please click here (there will be a small service charge added to the price of each reservation; orders may be cancelled for twelve hours after being submitted - otherwise the ticket is nonrefundable except for emergencies). Online reservations may be placed as late as April 21, but seating is limited so don't wait too long.
Questions? Contact bob@bobwhyte.com
Location: Radisson Hotel, 150 Park Drive, RTP.
Directions:
Heading East on I-40, take exit 280 (Davis Drive) and at top of exit ramp, go straight across Davis Drive onto Park Drive. Follow Park Drive a short distance until you come to a stop sign and then veer to the right up a hill. The hotel will be on your right.
Heading West on I-40, take Exit 280, but take a left at the top of the ramp onto Davis Drive, then take first right onto Park Drive.
Join the club: To become a member of the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle, visit our website and navigate to How to Join. You will find a link to a Membership Application Form that describes eligibility requirements and the process of becoming a member. Questions about becoming a member or about current membership accounts should be addressed to membership@harvardtriangle.com, (919) 345-3553.