CalNeAr Regional Node Meeting – January 12, 2022

CalNeAr Regional Node Meeting January 12, 2022
The CalNear node, which covers California, Nevada, and Arizona, had a virtual node meeting on January 12, 2022. The meeting was organized by Claudia Uhde-Stone (Node Leader), Chelsey Mckenna (Node Co-Leader), and Alexa Sawa.

The 19 attendees included 16 faculty, 1 undergraduate and 2 graduate students from 11 institutions (California State University, East Bay, College of Southern Nevada, College of the Desert, Chabot College, San Jose State University, Washington University in St Louis, California State University Northridge, California State University Los Angeles, Vanguard University, Central Arizona College, California Northstate University).

Sessions at the Regional Node Meeting included:

  • Introduction to GEP (Alexa Sawa)
  • Graduate student talks presenting GEP CURE data
  • Undergraduate student talk on benefits of being involved in GEP, and becoming a teaching assistant
  • Q&A session
  • GEP implementation in courses (Claudia Uhde-Stone)

The event was geared to inform and raise interest; we hope that some participants may have been inspired to join our GEP community.

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