Endeavor Talks are informal conversations in which faculty discuss their research, writing, or creative activities with colleagues across the disciplines.
Endeavor Talks may focus on works in progress, research and writing processes, a recent project's application to Rollins, teaching or mentoring students' research, the idea of research, developing or adjusting a research agenda, types of research or scholarship (e.g., public scholarship, the scholarship of teaching and learning/SoTL), and more. (Formal presentations of published research are offered through the Rollins Scholars Series sponsored by the Provost's Office.)
Join your colleagues for a Friday afternoon coffee, tea, snacks, and conversation.
2022-23 Endeavor Talks
Spring 2023
Juan Guevara Pinto: "Remembering Diverse Faces: The Effects of Race on Prospective Memory"
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Fri, Feb 24, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Juan Guevara Pinto (Psychology) will share the research he conducted as part of the 2022 Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship program, which examines the attentional demands of remembering to identify missing people from minority groups. Following the highly publicized Gabby Petito case in 2021, there has been a recent public urge for traditional media outlets to highlight missing people cases from under-represented racial and ethnic groups. Using traditional experimental methods in the field of prospective memory, this project shows that reporting seeing a missing person from a minority group (i.e., Indian) demands greater cognitive resources than reporting a missing person from a majority group (i.e., Caucasian). This indeed suggests that media outlets should emphasize cases from minority groups to alleviate such attentional demands. In his talk, Juan will not only share the findings from his research but also engage in conversation about the broader implications, and difficulties, in remembering faces from different racial and ethnic groups.
Pavielle Haines: "White Racial Anxiety and Public Support for the Capitol Riot"
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Fri, March 24, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Description coming soon!
Mattea Garcia: "Thriving at Work: Seeking Social Support and Creating Positive Communication Environments"
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Fri, April 7, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Join Mattea Garcia (Communication) to discuss ways we can and should seek social support when experiencing a disconfirming and negative communication climate. Utilizing the findings of her research on workplace bullying and social support, she'll share some of the challenges professionals face when seeking support at work, the signs of a problematic communication environment, and some strategies for individuals and leaders as they try to create positive and healthy work environments. Our desire to feel validated, supported, and appreciated is universal and this conversation will provide space to imagine how we cultivate a culture in which all people can thrive.
Dawn Roe: "DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation"
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Fri, April 28, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Join Dawn Roe (Studio Art) talking about her work-in-progress begun during her sabbatical year. "DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation" looks to the fish – who have occupied our planet for millions of years in a constant struggle for survival – as an entryway to visualize the entanglements of interspecies relation through time-based imaging systems referencing the imperceptible slowness of evolutionary processes. Some of this work will be in the Rollins Museum of Art as part of the Faculty Biennal at this time, so her Endeavor Talk will prepare you for a visit to the museum.
Past Endeavor Talks
Serina Haddad: "The Use of Technology in Creating an Inclusive and Engaging Learning experience in a Statistics Course"
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Fri, Sept 16, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Serina Haddad (Business) will share her project that focused on teaching statistics in an effective and supportive environment that allows engagement, enables inclusivity, and involves manageable changes in the spirit of James Lang's principle of “small teaching.” Her project responds to today's students' early exposure to technology, which has led to improved capabilities for learning supported by technology and visual practice. These students are intolerant for being lectured to or talked at and prefer being engaged in the classroom using multiple tools. Moreover, traditional teaching methods and lecture-courses in statistics can be ineffective as they have not succeeded in explaining the relationship between statistics and real-world applications. In her Endeavor Talk, Serina will share the development, implementation, and analysis of this approach to teaching statistics.
Kara Wunderlich: "The Golden Circle (Why, How, and What) of Authentic Assessments"
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Fri, Nov 18, 2-3pm in International House (RSVP) |
Kara Wunderlich (Applied Behavior Analysis and Clinical Science) will discuss the authentic assessments (as opposed to more traditional assessment types, like tests or discussion boards) she has incorporated into her classes to help build students’ problem-solving and application skills. She will share some of her preliminary research on how these authentic assessments have been received by students and facilitate a discussion with attendees on ways to integrate authentic assessment into a course.
Dan Myers: "A Quantitative Comparison of Alternative Grading Systems"
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Fri, Sept 17, 2-3pm in KWR 320 |
Join Dan Myers (Computer Science) as he shares the results of his research on alternative grading, evaluating real student work according to six different grading approaches, including specifications and labor-based grading. He'll talk about popular grading models, the effects of grading system design on student outcomes, and the impacts of different systems on student demographic groups, opening a conversation about equitable grading.
Stephanie Gonzalez Guittar: "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM and Music Education"
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Fri, Oct 8, 2-3pm in International House |
Stephanie Gonzalez Guittar (Sociology) will share two separate student-led research projects that utilized survey and interview data from college students in these fields to identify ongoing challenges in diversity, equity, and inclusion within their respective programs. Though very different fields, there are some overlapping themes in student experiences and barriers to success.
Audrey Hope: The Rollins College Walk of Fame as a Starting Point for Her Artwork “CEMETERY MUSEUM SOUVENIR”
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Fri, Nov 12, 2-3pm in International House |
Audrey Hope (Art & Art History) will discuss her ongoing art project, for which she has been taking rubbings from the stones on the Rollins College Walk of Fame. Part of this in-progress work was exhibited at the Rollins College Museum this summer. She will describe her long-held interests in personal relics and idiosyncratic collecting methods, as well as the process of creating rubbings on fabric. Hope will connect her work to broader points of interest, including student experience of the campus landscape, community perspectives on the Walk, as well as histories of collecting at Rollins College and their relevance to larger postcolonial conversations.
Emily Russell, Amy McClure, Steve Schoen, & Nancy Chick: "The Myth of the 50-Minute Epiphany"
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Fri, Feb 18, 2-3pm in International House |
Join Emily Russell (English), Amy McClure (Sociology), Steve Schoen (Critical Media & Cultural Studies), and Nancy Chick (Endeavor Center) for a discussion of their collaborative interdisciplinary research project on how the broader tensions of the #MeToo movement emerged in a class activity focused on gender. They will talk about the range of student responses, their experience with this kind of pedagogical research (i.e., a lesson study project), and some important truths about teaching and learning that surfaced during this project.
Mattea Garcia: "Thriving at Work: Seeking Social Support to Navigate Challenging or Negative Communication Environments"
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postponed (TBA) |
Join Mattea Garcia as she discusses ways we can and should seek social support when experiencing a disconfirming, toxic, or destructive communication climate. Utilizing the findings of her research on workplace bullying and social support, she'll share some of the challenges professionals face when seeking support at work, the signs of a negative communication environment, and some strategies for individuals and leaders as they try to create positive and healthy work environments. Our desire to feel validated, supported, and appreciated is universal and this talk will provide space to imagine how we cultivate a culture in which all people can thrive.
Elizabeth Smith & Sarah Parsloe: "Ableism and (Post-)Pandemic Pedagogy: Critiquing the Return to 'Normal'"
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Fri, April 8, 2-3pm in International House |
Join Rollins student Elizabeth Smith and Sarah Parsloe (Communication) as they discuss findings from their summer 2021 Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship project. Drawing from interviews with 16 students with disabilities from Rollins and elsewhere, they will explore how students’ experiences of ableism and inclusion shifted during the transition from in-person to virtual learning. Endeavor Talk participants will engage in a brainstorming session to identify and reimagine “normal” classroom practices that can reassert barriers for students with disabilities in post-pandemic world.