Inquiry Initiative
HHMI Inquiry Initiative Speaker: Dr. Anique Olivier-Mason of MIT
Location
F.W. Olin Building 110Date & Time
3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT September 6, 2013Contact
3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT September 6, 2013
F.W. Olin Building 110
Dr. Anique Olivier-Mason is a technical instructor in Professor Cathy Drennan’s HHMI Education Laboratory at MIT. Together with Dr. Beth Vogel Taylor, Dr. Olivier-Mason works on initiatives for “Improving Chemistry Teaching and Mentoring Nationwide.” For her Inquiry Initiative seminar, she will be leading participants in an interactive workshop on teaching in a diverse classroom or laboratory. Following the diversity training, participants should (1) understand stereotype threat and recognize diversity issues in their classrooms and (2) gain strategies and confidence in addressing diversity issues.