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Join the Center for Teaching Team as we explore tools to enhance your classroom. This semester, we have sessions with Hypothesis, VoiceThread, Gradescope, and more. These tools can help make your teaching more effective and engaging. Join the next workshop, Introduction to VoiceThread, on Monday, Feb. 3 at 11 a.m. Learn more and register for this and other upcoming workshops.


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February museum programs explore ice

The University of Alaska Museum of the North will focus on ice during family programs in February. Read more about program events scheduled for Feb. 7, 8 and 22.


Developing critical thinking through problem-based learning

In a previous teaching tip, we explored the . This time, we’ll dive into another PBL: Problem-based learning. While place-based learning helps students connect more deeply with content by relating it to their local context, a benefit that can also be a part of problem-based learning, the true strength of problem-based learning lies in its emphasis on developing and practicing critical thinking skills. Learn more in the teaching tip from ÐÔÓûÉç's Center for Teaching and Learning.


Staff on Tap gBETA: Pitch for Pints

Sometimes all it takes is a napkin... at a Pub. From the invention of Ethernet to companies like Southwest Airlines and product ideas from employees at Cisco and IBM, Facebook and more - some of the most successful businesses, products and technologies we know today were shared on napkins. Do you have research, IP or a project you know would make a real-world impact? Grab a pen, grab a napkin. See you at the pub on Feb. 5. Must be 21 or older to attend.


What's new with AI: Drop-in discussion

Join this event on the third Thursday of every month from 1-2 p.m. to chat with CTL instructional designers and other faculty about recent advances and best practices in generative artificial intelligence and the best practices surrounding its applications to higher education. Read more and reserve your seat for sessions.


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Visiting scholar sessions for ÐÔÓûÉç instructors

Kevin Gannon is the director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. Gannon will offer three programs for ÐÔÓûÉç instructors on Feb. 26-27. Learn more and register for programs.

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WGSS lecture by Eduardo Díaz: Ghosts of the Countryside

Please join us Feb. 5 in Gruening 503H with Eduardo Díaz for his research presentation analyzing women’s roles as actors, bystanders, and victims in Mexico’s Cristero War (1926–1929). Using gender and class lenses, he explores the war’s lasting impact on Western Mexico’s social fabric and national identity. The event includes a brief WGSS meeting and offers a as well. Learn more on the lecture.


Ideation Studio at The MILL

Ideation Studio is a series of hands-on workshops intended to help researchers, faculty, staff, and students work together to solve Alaska challenges across silos. Participants automatically qualify to apply for up to $20,000 in seed funding. Read more and register.


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