[FUN_Mail] Sharing an article with FUN Friends

Tue Dec 29 23:01:57 EST 2020

Dear Karen,

You have been and are the greatest..   I join Julio in recognizing you and your colleague's accomplishments.
I've retired, but as one of my final priorities was getting the Washington College Neuroscience Major approved....  by some miracle that was accomplished.   It has been because of Julio and colleagues such as you that I was able to help shepherd colleagues - some who are now members of FUN - and had what influence we had with the students, faculty, and administrators to get the new major approved, even given the current institutional challenges COVID has presented.

Best Wishes... happy holidays..

Mike

Michael T. Kerchner Ph.D.

Emeritus Associate Professor of Psychology

Executive Director of Nu Rho Psi

Washington College

300 Washington Avenue

Chestertown, MD 21620

(c)  410-708-4249

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From: FUN_Mail <fun_mail-bounces at lists.funfaculty.org> on behalf of Ramirez, Julio <juramirez at davidson.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 2:57 PM
To: Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Mailing List <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>
Subject: Re: [FUN_Mail] Sharing an article with FUN Friends

Dear FUN Friends,

I’d like to express special thanks to Karen Parfitt and Alexia Pollack for taking on, during very stressful times, the creation of this special issue of Neuroscience Letters.  I had the opportunity to read a number of the marvelous articles appearing in that special issue as I prepared my review.  They edited a special issue that is truly a gem and that we’ll all get to enjoy when it comes out in its entirety in early 2021.  Yet one more reason to look forward to 2021!

Best wishes,

Julio

From: FUN_Mail <fun_mail-bounces at lists.funfaculty.org> On Behalf Of Karen D. Parfitt
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 2:36 PM
To: Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Mailing List <FUN_Mail at lists.funfaculty.org>
Subject: Re: [FUN_Mail] Sharing an article with FUN Friends

Dear Leah and Kristen and all,

    Thank you so much for pointing out the Cases resource in JUNE.  It is indeed a very valuable series.  If you’ve had a chance to look at the table of contents for the Special Issue, you’ll see that due to space limitations and other issues, there are many omissions. Perhaps most notably, we were unable to cover the many amazing innovations in teaching laboratory courses.

    We’ll be writing up the intro to the Special Issue in the coming weeks, and will briefly mention some of the many areas we were unable to include. If others have things you would have included, please email me directly (kparfitt at pomona.edu<mailto:kparfitt at pomona.edu>).  This could be a useful springboard to putting together another special issue.

     I’d also like to thank the many contributors and dedicated editorial staff at JUNE who have provided such an invaluable resource to us since its inception.

Have a restful holiday season!

Karen

Karen D. Parfitt, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience

       and Molecular Biology

Pomona College

175 W Sixth St

Claremont, CA  91711

From: FUN_Mail <fun_mail-bounces at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail-bounces at lists.funfaculty.org>> on behalf of "Roesch, Leah Anderson" <leah.roesch at emory.edu<mailto:leah.roesch at emory.edu>>
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Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 10:04 AM
To: Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Mailing List <FUN_Mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:FUN_Mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
Subject: Re: [FUN_Mail] Sharing an article with FUN Friends

Dear Julio (and FUN community),

Thanks for your work on this important and comprehensive article! Unfortunately, we were disappointed to see the missed opportunity to highlight the Cases feature in JUNE.

You’ve created a useful and comprehensive resource for neuroscience faculty, and you present many active-learning strategies for teaching neuroscience. Since you did not mention teaching with cases, we wanted to follow up with this note about the omission. We understand that you couldn’t possibly address each FUN member’s favorite teaching method in this article, so we hoped this email could serve to highlight this unique resource available in JUNE. Our hope is that increased focus on cases as a teaching tool will allow more faculty to incorporate effective and inclusive teaching practices.

Not only is teaching with cases a powerful active-learning pedagogy that would have fit beautifully in section 6.2, but since 2016, JUNE has had a special feature dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed cases for teaching neuroscience (see our editorial with Eric Wiertelak here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC4917350%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjuramirez%40davidson.edu%7C71c9b0462acd4dfb48e608d8a6b0cf74%7C35d8763cd2b14213b629f5df0af9e3c3%7C1%7C0%7C637442625627772208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=VRfqm8AfBuvWgEH6aw2DZDFwgYpvMescNCRXR%2BWVQ9E%3D&reserved=0>). Teaching with cases is a specific example of cooperative learning, allowing students to work through problems together while creating knowledge and community in the process. These narratives typically incorporate difficult problems facing society, including topics like addiction and human health-related issues, e.g. neurodegenerative disease. Many cases integrate primary literature into the narrative, increasing the opportunity for students to develop skills in scientific inquiry and data analysis, which is identified by Kershner et al. (2012)<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC3592753%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjuramirez%40davidson.edu%7C71c9b0462acd4dfb48e608d8a6b0cf74%7C35d8763cd2b14213b629f5df0af9e3c3%7C1%7C0%7C637442625627772208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=JWnc%2FtxSaPV8Fp4LzSjR5QgowrsiXhuxhHuypsetBfI%3D&reserved=0> as a core competency in neuroscience education.

While there are other places to find cases for teaching, JUNE is the ONLY place dedicated to publishing open-access, peer-reviewed, neuroscience cases. Currently we have 11 cases published by our FUN community (and one in press), and for each case there is a JUNE article describing the case, its implementation, and its assessment (finding cases summary here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1I6v-aKppRtUfICzvDoLZIBdXpqycJQtg0xeVXK2t1G4%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=04%7C01%7Cjuramirez%40davidson.edu%7C71c9b0462acd4dfb48e608d8a6b0cf74%7C35d8763cd2b14213b629f5df0af9e3c3%7C1%7C0%7C637442625627782200%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=cX1tV9C%2F3OXN9QE8BkpoY7wTqBaO%2FItQmSL7pKA4pqM%3D&reserved=0>). Further, by request to limit student access, peer-reviewed implementation notes and student materials are free to download for adopting and adapting in classrooms.

We hope this comment is helpful as you all wrap up your fall classes and look to new syllabi for spring.

Sincerely,

Leah Roesch and Kristen Frenzel

Co-Editors, Cases Feature, JUNE

Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Program, Emory University

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Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 3:32 PM
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Subject: [External] [FUN_Mail] Sharing an article with FUN Friends

Dear FUN Friends,

Because a number of our FUN colleagues are highlighted in an article I just published in Neuroscience Letters, I wanted to share the article with our community. It’s open access, so please feel free to take a look at it when you have time. The title of the article is “Undergraduate Neuroscience Education:  Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century” and it appears in a special issue of Neuroscience Letters on new developments in undergraduate neuroscience education that Karen Parfitt and Alexia Pollack are editing.  So, keep your eyes open for that issue when it comes out early in 2021!

Just click on the link<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0304394020306881%23bib0080&data=04%7C01%7Cjuramirez%40davidson.edu%7C71c9b0462acd4dfb48e608d8a6b0cf74%7C35d8763cd2b14213b629f5df0af9e3c3%7C1%7C0%7C637442625627792195%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=0pgYEKRV9%2FFwMNYfuL%2BjxnwrQOhwx9X1bIx6EZm0TIU%3D&reserved=0> or cut-and-paste the following in your browser:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394020306881#bib0080<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0304394020306881%23bib0080&data=04%7C01%7Cjuramirez%40davidson.edu%7C71c9b0462acd4dfb48e608d8a6b0cf74%7C35d8763cd2b14213b629f5df0af9e3c3%7C1%7C0%7C637442625627792195%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=0pgYEKRV9%2FFwMNYfuL%2BjxnwrQOhwx9X1bIx6EZm0TIU%3D&reserved=0>

I wish you all a safe, healthy, and FUN ending to 2020!

Julio

Julio J. Ramirez, Ph.D.

R. Stuart Dickson Professor

Director, Neuroscience Program

co-Director, Neuroscience Scholars Program

     Society for Neuroscience

Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Program

Box 7017; Wall Science Center

Davidson College

Davidson, NC 28035

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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

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