Conference Proceedings
Index of Speakers and Session Leaders
Biographical Statements
Pre-Conference Meetings

Thursday-Friday, November 18-19, 2004
Washington Hilton and Towers
Washington, DC

Co-Sponsors:
The National Science Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Day One: Thursday, November 18, 2004
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction

Plenary Session: Research and Undergraduate Education; A Powerful Partnership
This session will establish the essential synergy between research universities' dual missions to generate and transmit knowledge, and it will confirm the dimension this synergy brings to undergraduate education. Two distinguished speakers will begin the process of defining the dynamic relationship between research and undergraduate teaching and learning and asserting the powerful advantage that research universities enjoy as a result of this relationship.

Breakout Sessions: Bringing Research to the Classroom
The challenges in translating research into the classroom vary by field and educational setting. These sessions will enable conference participants to investigate strategies and methods for weaving what is happening at the research level into specific educational contexts. Participants will be able to choose a session that relates directly to their own teaching and research. Although the issues of integration will differ by situation, these breakout sessions will all emphasize ways to engage undergraduates in the act of discovery.

A. At the Institutional Level

B. Within Fields and Majors

These sessions will consider ways in which research and research-related experiences can transform and enhance teaching and learning in contexts that cut across departments and fields. In introductory and foundation courses Leader: Joseph Potenza, Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers University Within learning communities Leaders: Greig Stewart, Executive Director, College Park Scholars Program, and Rebecca Thomas, Assistant Director, Gemstone Program, University of Maryland, College Park Within research service learning Leader: Robert Thompson, Professor of Psychology, Dean of Trinity College and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Duke University Research as an integrative experience Leader: Lee Willard, Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences and Trinity College, Duke University Technology and pedagogy: Faculty development's piece of the undergraduate research puzzle Leader: Renata Engel, Professor of Engineering Graphics and Engineering Science & Mechanics and Associate Vice Provost for Teaching Excellence, Pennsylvania State University

These sessions will examine approaches to integrating research within different fields and majors. Performing and Fine Arts Leader: Donald McKayle, Choreographer/Director, Claire Trevor Professor of Dance and Artistic Director UCI Dance, University of California, Irvine Engineering and Computer Science Leader: Joseph J. McCarthy, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Experimental and data intensive Social Sciences, related areas within Psychology and Management Leaders: Wiliam Frawley, Professor of Anthropology and Psychology and Dean, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, and Elliot Hirshman, Professor and Chair of Psychology, George Washington University Humanities and discursive Social Sciences: A template approach to undergraduate research Leaders: Gerald Graff, Professor of English and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Cathy Birkenstein-Graff Life Sciences and related areas within Psychology Leader: Sarah Elgin, Professor of Biology, Genetics and Education, Washington University in St. Louis Physical Sciences and Mathematics Leader: Robin L. Garrell, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Californi, Los Angeles

Plenary Session 2: Incorporating Principles of Learning into Undergraduate Education
Recent advances in the "science of learning" offer universities the potential to re-shape their undergraduate education to meet the varied needs of their large and diverse student populations. The challenge is how to translate basic research findings into educational applications. This session will provide an overview of the current state of research on learning, consider how the effective application of relevant principles can improve faculty teaching and student learning, and examine challenges of application within the research university context

Introduction: Wendy Katkin Moderator: Ralph Kuncl, Professor of Neurobiology and Provost, Bryn Mawr College Opening Remarks
	Research on Learning as a Foundation for Curricular Reform and Pedagogy? Leader: Elizabeth Bjork, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
	Improving Student Learning: Moving from the Memory Laboratory to the Classroom Leader: Mark McDaniel, Professor of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
	Disciplinary Differences in Learning and Thinking Processes and in Teaching Strategies and Styles Leader: Janet Gail Donald, Professor of Education and Counselling Psychology, McGill University

Breakout Sessions 2: Applying Principles of Learning in Diverse Undergraduate Educational Settings
These sessions will be organized around the central question, "How can research universities apply and extend their knowledge of how people learn, think and remember to improve learning in the university and beyond?" Conference participants will endeavor to answer this question as it applies in specific higher educational constructs. They will also probe ways in which principles of learning can be adapted to address different disciplinary learning styles and the needs of diverse populations.

Plenary Session: Providing a Quality Research-Based Undergraduate Education: Critical Issues and Challenges of the Next Five Years
This session will look to the future and contemplate major forces that are re-shaping research universities. Among the most dominant are the rapidly-changing state of knowledge, the increasing "fluidity" of disciplines, new technologies that create new opportunities, and new undergraduate populations. Three distinguished leaders in higher education will examine the challenges posed by these forces and demonstrate why and how research universities are uniquely positioned to respond.

Moderator: Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education & Human Resources, National Science Foundation Challenges in STEM Education
	Undergraduate Education and the Core of the Research University Leader: John Sexton, Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law and President, New York University
	Capable Language: Complex Discovery and Plain Talk Leader: Robert Weisbuch, President, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
	Engaging the Full Range of Students on the Right Range of Topics in the Full Range of Ways Leader: Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

 
Breakout Sessions 3: Addressing the Challenges
These sessions will allow for in-depth examination of some of the most trenchant challenges research universities will face with respect to undergraduate education. They are noteworthy for the range of issues and various aspects of undergraduate education on which they impinge.

Community-based Research: Taking it to the streets Leaders: Dennis Jacobs, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Provost and Vice President, University of Notre Dame, and Julie Ellison, Professor of American Culture, English and Art and Design and Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, University of Michigan Developing resources and funds for a research-based undergraduate education Leader: Patricia Iannuzzi, Associate University Librarian and Director, Doe/Moffitt Libraries and Interim Director, Collections, University of California, Berkeley Expanding opportunities for undergraduate research: Engaging the professional schools and developing new financial and human resources Leader: Matthew Santirocco, Professor of Classics, Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, and Dean of the College of Arts and Science, New York University Forming multi-campus partnerships Leaders: Jeff Roberts, Professor and Director of the University of Minnesota RSEC, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, and Robin Tanke, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point Graduate students as teachers and mentors of undergraduate research Leaders: Janet Rankin, Associate Professor of Engineering, Asociate Director for Physical & Life Sciences, and Laura Hess, Associate Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences , The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University Increasing engagement and retention through research and creative endeavors Leader: Pedro Castillo, Professor of History and Provost, Oakes College, University of California, Santa Cruz Promoting connections between 2- and 4-year institutions Leaders: Caesar Sereseres, Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of California, Irvine, and Victor Jaime, Vice President for Student Services, Imperial Valley College Research and creative activity: Critical components of a sound liberal arts education Leader: Sue V. Rosser, Professor of History, Technology and Society and Dean of the Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology Strategies for effecting rapid translation of ongoing research in the curriculum Leaders: David Lynn, Candler Professor of Chemistry and Biology, and Dawn Comeau, Department of Women’s Studies and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Teaching and Learning in an Age of Technology: The Development of a Genetics Cognitive Tutor Leader: Elizabeth W. Jones, Schwertz University Professor of Life Sciences and Head, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University The changing roles of the humanities and social sciences in a changing university Leader: Reed Dasenbrock, Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico

Lunch/Future Directions
The conference will conclude with a working lunch organized around a discussion of the common themes and recommendations that emerge from the plenary and breakout sessions. The Reinvention Center will use the discussion as a basis for establishing its priorities and planning actions for the next two-three years.

Introduction: Wendy Katkin

Speaker: Gerald Graff, Professor of English and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Withholding the Academic Disciplines from Undergraduates"

Panel: Three Perspectives

Bernadette Gray-Little, Professor of Psychology and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The Social Sciences
Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education & Human Resources, National Science Foundation: A Global Perspective
William Wood, Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder: The Natural Sciences

Closing Remarks

Pre-Conference Meetings

• Undergraduate Vice Presidents, Provosts and other Senior Administrators with Campus-Wide Responsibility for Undergraduate Education
  

  Leaders: Al Wyner, Dean, Undergraduate Studies, College of Letters & Science, University of Calfiornia, Santa Barbara and Ellen Woods, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University

• Undergraduate Research Program Directors, Faculty and Professional Staff with Responsibility for Promoting, Coordinating and Expanding Undergraduate Research Opportunities
  
  Leader: Sandra R. Gregerman, Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan

• Humanities Initiative

  Leader: Matthew Santirocco, Professor of Classics, Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, and Dean, College of Arts and Science, New York University