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This full-day workshop will be offered at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Madison, Wisconsin. Participants will learn basic Python syntax, Google Colab (with Gemini AI assist), and GitHub. The goal is to leave the workshop with a classroom exercise ready to go!

This introductory six-hour workshop will introduce faculty members with all levels of coding skill to the use of coding in their classroom. The focus will be on pedagogy, needs of the community and some basics of Python syntax, with examples of data analysis and plotting. This is the first of three workshops and will be followed by workshops on "learning to code" and "teaching with code."

This four-hour virtual crash course (sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine at Rutgers University) is designed to introduce novices (with little or no coding experience) to a pedagogical foundation for coding, the Google Colab environment, GitHub, and the fundamentals of Python scripting. A link for registration will be shared on this site as soon as it is available.

Paul Craig has been invited to present a poster at SciMix on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. SciMix is an evening event where a limited number of presenters are asked to present posters because their topics are perceived as interesting, engaging, and likely to lead to productive networking

Lee Schoneman received an award from the ACS Women in Computing group for her submission. She will present her MS Bioinformatics thesis work, where she wrote Python code to facilitate docking small molecules on protein surfaces in both Jupyter notebooks and a Streamlit web interface. This work was supported by NSF IUSE 2142033.

Paul Craig will present this talk at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on March 26, 2026 in a session sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education called "Blending Generative AI With Instructor Insight for Next Generation Chemistry Teaching and Improved Student Learning".

This poster represents work completed by Lee Schoneman at RIT for her MS degree in bioinformatics. She use Python to build an application for docking small molecules into binding pockets on protein surfaces. The application can be accessed from Jupyter notebooks or from a Streamlit website.

This minisymposium will feature five speakers who will discuss how they got started with coding and how they are incorporating coding in their teaching and research. One of the presenters is Mike Foster, who completed as post-doc with CASTLE last year and is now a faculty member at The Pennsylvania State University.

This book (Co-Author: Ashish Agrawal), based on a longitudinal international project, argues that the educational potential of higher education lies, not in graduate salaries or employability, but in the ways in which engaging with structured bodies of knowledge changes students' understanding of the world and what they can do in it.

RIT PER researchers, Sachmpazidi and Verostek, publish new article in the Physical Review Physics Education Research Journal on the psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics.

Dr. Sachmpazidi delivered a Physics Colloquium at Cornell University about Data-Informed Departmental Change in Physics Education. She discussed findings from two of her projects on 1) physics graduate education and 2) effective team-based approaches for departmental change.

Karl Henrik Fredly, a graduate student at the University of Oslo, was co-supervised by Ben Zwickl and Tor Ole Odden on a project on how graduate students develop advanced computational literacy, published in Physical Review PER.

CASTLE Director Dina Newman leads the organizing committee for UGN. This year's conference was a big success, with over 400 registrants. Her session on the topic of teaching the genetics of human sex determination received rave reviews.

Reports on the categorization and profiles of 29 distinct quantum technology roles were released by Piña, Zwickl, and collaborators at CU-Boulder.

Shams El-Adawy, postdoc at CU-Boulder, led a co-authored paper with Piña and Zwickl on building the quantum information science and engineering education ecosystem. The work appeared in Physical Review PER.

The RIT PER group published 8 peer-reviewed papers in the Proceedings of the 2025 Physics Education Research Conference with numerous undergrad, graduate, and postdoc authors.