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Professional Development Teaching Teams

ISEE mobilizes many teaching teams each year through the Professional Development Program (PDP), so that ISEE simultaneously has two major impacts:

1) the PDP participants – primarily graduate students and postdocs – who have a transformative professional development experience that they will draw on throughout their careers.

2) the students that they teach – primarily undergraduates – who gain an immersive inquiry experience in an inclusive environment.

Beginning with the most recent prior cohort of PDP teams, the team pages summarize how many people are impacted by ISEE each year.

Select Prior Year: 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008-2001

PDP 2020 Teams and Teaching Venues
2020-01		Teaching team/venue: MSU REU Prep Approximate Teaching Dates: Late-May to early-June (TBD) Location: Michigan State University Design Institute Attending: Houston Team Lead: Rachel Frisbie Members: Relevant Disciplinary Background: computational science, physics, astronomy with experience writing code and/or interacting with larger codes and experience with version control, e.g. git. Sponsor:
2020-02		Teaching team/venue: Pre-Optometry Professional Society Workshop Approximate Teaching Dates: June or July (TBD) Location: University of Houston Design Institute Attending: Houston Team Lead: Sujata Rijal Members: Relevant Disciplinary Background: vision science, optometry, optics Sponsor:
2020-03		Teaching team/venue: AstroTech Summer School - Refractive Optics Teaching Dates: July 20-24, 2020 Location: UC Berkeley Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Maren Cosens Members: Relevant Disciplinary Background: astronomy instrumentation Sponsor:
2020-04		Teaching team/venue: AstroTech Summer School - Spectrograph Design Teaching Dates: July 20-24, 2020 Location: UC Berkeley Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Emily Martin Members: Relevant Disciplinary Background: astronomy instrumentation Sponsor:
2020-05		Teaching team/venue: Akamai PREP Teaching Dates: June 6-12, 2020 Location: University of Hawaii, Hilo Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Ryan Dungee Members: Relevant Disciplinary Background: astronomy, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science Sponsor:
2020-06		Teaching team/venue: UH Manoa Astro 300 Lab Approximate Teaching Date: September - October 2020 (TBD) Location: University of Hawaii, Manoa Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Travis Berger Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy, physics, spectroscopy Sponsor:
2020-07		Teaching team/venue: Carnegie summer program Teaching Dates: June 18-19, 2020 Location: Carnegie Observatories (Pasadena, CA) Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Alicia Lanz Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy Sponsor:
2020-08		Teaching team/venue: Carnegie summer program Teaching Dates: Aug 6-7, 2020 Location: Carnegie Observatories (Pasadena, CA) Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy Sponsor:
2020-09		Teaching team/venue: STEM Diversity Programs Summer Research Experience PREP: Biomed Approximate teaching dates: early- to mid-June Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Matthew Glasenapp Members: Relevant disciplinary background: biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, life sciences Sponsor:
2020-10		Teaching team/venue: Summer Research Experience PREP: Data Science Approximate teaching dates: early- to mid-June Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: computer science, math, statistics, programming, python, data science, machine learning, natural language processing Sponsor:
2020-11		Teaching team/venue: ACCESS Summer Research Institute PREP Approximate teaching dates: early- to mid-June Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Jocelyn Macho Members: Relevant disciplinary background: chemistry, biochemistry, biomolecular engineering Sponsor:
2020-12		Teaching team/venue: Next Gen Scholars in Applied Math Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: September 2020 (TBD) Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: applied math/physics, astronomy, computational science Sponsor:
2020-13		Teaching team/venue: Python Course Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: Summer 2020 (TBD) Location: University of South Carolina Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Justin Roberts-Pierel Members: Relevant disciplinary background: physics, astronomy, programming, Python Sponsor:
2020-14		Teaching team/venue: USC Summer STEM Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: Summer 2020 (TBD) Location: University of South Carolina Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: biology, physics, astrophysics Sponsor:
2020-15		Teaching team/venue: Harvard Smithsonian CfA Astronomy REU Teaching Dates: July 6-10, 2020 Location: Harvard (Cambridge, MA) Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Stephanie Douglas Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy Sponsor:
2020-16		Teaching team/venue: TAURUS summer program PREP Approximate Teaching Date: June 2020 (TBD) Location: University of Texas, Austin Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Jackie Champagne Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy Sponsor:
2020-17		Teaching team/venue: UT Austin research methods course Approximate Teaching Date: Fall 2020 (TBD) Location: University of Texas, Austin Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Sam Factor Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy Sponsor:
2020-18		Teaching venue/team: AstroCom NYC PREP Approximate Teaching Date: late-May/early-June (TBD) Location: CCA (New York, NY) Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Paul McNulty Members: Relevant disciplinary background: physics, astronomy, optics, signal processing, image processing Sponsor:
2020-19		Teaching venue/team: Columbia REU PREP Approximate Teaching Date: late-May/early-June (TBD) Location: Columbia University (New York, NY) Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Sam Grunblatt Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy, physics, computer science, statistics Sponsor:
2020-20		Teaching venue/team: MASP-PEAC Summer Program Approximate Teaching Date: early July to mid August 2020 (TBD) Location: CU Boulder Design Institute Attending: University of Houston Team Lead: Samantha Walker Members: Relevant disciplinary background: astronomy, physics, engineering Sponsor:
2020-21		Teaching venue/team: Neuro WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Nicholas Santiago Members: Relevant disciplinary background: neuroscience, biology, neurogogical disease Sponsor:
2020-22		Teaching venue/team: Microbiome WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Lead: Shanna Howard Members: Relevant disciplinary background: neurobiology, microbiology, toxicology, developmental biology Sponsor:
2020-23		Teaching venue/team: DNA WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: Arina Favilla & May Roberts Members: Relevant disciplinary background: biology, genetics Sponsor:
2020-24		Teaching venue/team: Materials Science/Physics WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: Johnny Davenport Members: Relevant disciplinary background: physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science Sponsor:
2020-25		Teaching venue/team: Data Science WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: comupter science, math, statistics, programming, python, data science, machine learning, natural language processing Sponsor:
2020-26		Teaching venue/team: Climate WEST Teaching Dates: Sept 21-23, 2020 Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: Mer Pozo Buil Members: Relevant disciplinary background: oceanography, environmental science, climate science, geology Sponsor:
2020-27		Teaching venue/team: Sustainable Materials REU PREP Approximate teaching dates: June 2020 (TBD) Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science Sponsor:
2020-28		Teaching venue/team: Chemistry 1A Research Saturday Approximate teaching dates: Fall 2020 (TBD) Location: University of California, Santa Cruz Design Institute Attending: University of California, Santa Cruz Team Co-lead: TBD Members: Relevant disciplinary background: chemistry, biochemistry, biomolecular engineering Sponsor: