FAIRES FACULTY FORUM FALL 2017

Forums will be held at 11:40 a.m. in the Mueller Theater, McKelvey Campus Center

SEPTEMBER 6 Using Cultural Relativism to Understand Non-Amish Perceptions of Old Order Amish Culture Kristin Park, Professor of Sociology

SEPTEMBER 13 A New Trick for Discovering Planets around Giant Stars Thomas E. Oberst, Associate Professor of Physics

SEPTEMBER 20 “Cops and Robbers:” Understanding Properties of Networks by Analyzing Games David E. Offner, Associate Professor of Mathematics

SEPTEMBER 27 You Say College, I Say Colegio: Creating International Opportunities for Westminster Students in the Dominican Republic Sararose D. Lynch, Assistant Professor of Education, and Joel T. Postema, Associate Professor of Spanish

OCTOBER 4 Clickers in the Upper Level Classroom: Who Benefits? Karen K. Resendes, Associate Professor of Biology

OCTOBER 18 Embodying an American Conscience: Dorothy Day’s Life, Work, and Honors Angela M. Lahr, Associate Professor of History

NOVEMBER 1 Go to the Source: Leading an NEH Summer Seminar in Elizabeth Bishop’s Archives and Mapping New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching Bethany F. Hicok, Professor of English

NOVEMBER 8 Social-Emotional Learning: A Foundation for Cyberbehavior Mandy B. Medvin, Professor of Psychology

NOVEMBER 29 Roundtables

For more information contact Darlene McCoy at 724-946-7120 or mccoyda@westminster.edu.