SLiThEr #59: Inclusive leadership: Your role in creating cultures of belonging where everyone can thrive
Please join us on Thursday, March 7th at 7:15 pm Eastern (4:15 pm Pacific) as Marilyn Mackiewicz (Oregon State University) presents "Inclusive leadership: Your role in creating cultures of belonging where everyone can thrive". Professor Mackiewicz is a recent awardee (2020) of the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the ACS. Her unique story and experiences will be presented, along with how faculty can make their spaces and themselves more welcoming.
SLiThEr #58 (Ce): Embracing the maker culture in chemistry research and instruction
On Wednesday February 21 at 3 pm eastern, join BoB LeSuer (Associate Professor at SUNY - Brockport and President of IBiB) for a discussion on using a maker space for teaching chemistry. Topics include: digital fabrication of pedagogical materials (models and periodic tables); instrumentation (potentiostat and liquid dispenser); and upcycling plastics into functional materials. Of special interest to this group will be work BoB has done on making the ICE solid state model kits (see below) available to anyone.
SLiThEr #57 next Thurs, Feb 8th at 4pm EST
Welcome to 2024!
Team SLiThEr has been hard at work arranging SLiThErs for this spring, and our first one will be in one week's time!
The presenter will be friend of IONiC George Stanley, and the title is "What to do when your published results are questioned". We will meet at 4pm Eastern (1 pm Pacific, 2 mountain, 3 central) on Thurs Feb 8th, a week from today.