ACS Receives Honorable Mention Chapter Award
UCA’s American Chemical Society Student Chapter has received an Honorable Mention Chapter Award for its 2010-2011 activities from the ACS Society Committee on Education. To earn this award the students had to demonstrate in an annual report theirefforts to promote chemical education on departmental, college, university, and community levels. Additionally, the chapter had to indicate its efforts in promoting a unified chapter through chapter meetings and social activities. The report was submitted and reviewed by three faculty advisors that provided helpful feedback to the group.
Department of Math Welcomes 15 Graduate Teaching Assistants
On August 17, 2011 the Department of Mathematics welcomed fifteen graduate teaching assistants, seven returning and eight new, to become part of the instructional staff of the department.
Returning graduate teaching assistants teach Business Calculus or College Algebra and new graduate teaching assistants teach College Algebra. This new cohort of students includes four international students from China, Côte d’Ivoire, Nepal and South Korea. All GTAs participated in a two-day orientation sessions to receive pre-class training. Dr. Charles Watson, and Ms. Loi Booher coordinated the sessions.
The training program included a wide array of topics such as organizing and scheduling for instruction, effective instructional strategies, content refresher, introduction to the on-line homework manager, and a session on what to do during the first day of class.
For more information about graduate programs in mathematics, please contact the Department of Mathematics at (501) 450-3147.