Itinerary for CIRTL Exchange Student Colin Wallace, University of Colorado
25-27 January 2011
Contact phone numbers: Rique Campa-office-517/353-2042, cell-517/449-1127
Brian O’Shea-office-517/884-5638, cell-517/614-2771
25 January
Arrive in Lansing, MI on Delta 3899 (from Detroit) at 6:10 p.m. Hotel reservation at the Kellogg
Center on the Michigan State University Campus.
26 January
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the State Room, Kellogg Center with Rique Campa (Associate Dean,
The Graduate School and Professor), Kevin Johnston (Director of the Teaching Assistant
Program), and Nicole Nichol (FAST Fellow)
9:00 -10:30 a.m. Attend FAST Fellow Meeting, meet FAST Fellows, and visit with Dr. Ann Austin
(Professor, Higher Adult and Lifelong Education)—discussion topic—Challenges and
Opportunities of Early Career Faculty
10:30-11:30 a.m. Meet with Kevin Johnston (Director of the Teaching Assistant Program)
11:45-1:15 p.m. Lunch with Brian O’Shea and Physics Department Faculty/Students (meet at
Room 3651 BPS)
1:30-3:00 p.m. Teaching-as-Research Seminar: Overcoming Common Conceptual and Reasoning
Difficulties in Cosmology: A Lecture Tutorial Approach. Room 1400 BPS Building
3:00-5:00 p.m. Visit with Physics Faculty/Students
6:00 p.m. Dinner at Beggar’s Banquet: Brian O’Shea (Assistant Professor), Chris Richardson
(FAST Fellow), Paulo Pires (FAST Fellow), Beth Brisco (FAST Fellow), Others from Physics
27 January
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the State Room Kellogg Center with Ryan Maloney (FAST Fellow)
and Kristen Kostelnick and Joe Dauer (Dr. Diane Ebert-May’s Lab), Depart for airport on Delta
4234 from Lansing (flight departs 10:25 a.m.).