2025 Events
OCT 2025 | Inside U of A-Funded Scholarship Series (Speaker: Emily Jo Schwaller)
Featuring Emily Jo Schwaller, CUES Distinguished Fellow, Assistant Professor of Practice in the University Center for Assessment, Teaching & Technology (UCATT), and Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program, this hybrid seminar and panel will bring participants inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
OCT-NOV 2025 | Faculty Learning Community: Students Define Meaningful Writing – What Does This Mean for Us?
A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow Emily Jo Schwaller's CUES project
OCT 2025 | Cultivating Compassion for Student Engagement in Public Service
Join guest Alex Braithwaite and host Guada Lozano for a live pilot of the forthcoming podcast Cause as Compass. We invite you to listen and ask your questions live after the conversation. Read more about the guest and host.
The pilot and all future episodes will be available to stream on our website for those who are unable to attend live or who would like to revisit the conversation. A formal announcement will be shared once the podcast officially launches.
SEP 2025 | AI as a rater: equitable & just assessment in simulation education (Extramural)
NLN2025 (National League for Nursing) Education Summit
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Rogers, B.A., Dohm, M., & Sepanloo, K.)
SEP-NOV 2025 | Faculty Learning Community: Do you work with Learning or Teaching Assistants and want to enhance how they contribute to your course?
A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) facilitated by members of the 2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team (Gray, et al.), featuring their CUES project
AUG 2025 | Instructor-Facilitated, Personalized Student-AI Learning Partnerships (Extramural)
2025 International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC) Lilly Conference, Asheville, NC
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project
AUG 2025 | Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Journalism, Media, and Communication Classrooms (Extramural)
2025 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Jessica Retis and her CUES project
JUL 2025 | Meaningful Writing Happens: Writing Across Campuses (Extramural)
2025 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC), hosted by Colorado State University
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Emily Jo Schwaller and her CUES project (with Anh Dang)
JUL 2025 | Latin American Immigration and the U.S. News Media Discourse: Historical Foundations, Current Dynamics, and Future Implications (Extramural)
Hosted by Lyceum of the Philippines University
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Jessica Retis and her CUES project
JUL 2025 | “Listening” to the Community: Latinx Digital-Native Media Outlets’ Engaging Practices During Electoral Processes (Extramural)
IAMCR 2025 Conference (International Association for Mass Communication Research), Hosted by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Jessica Retis and her CUES project (with Cueva Chacón, L.)
JUL 2025 | BIO5 Inspiring Women in STEM 2025
Hosted by the BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona
An interactive panel presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project
JUN 2025 | Trends in US Healthcare Data Breaches (Extramural)
IEEE International Conference on AI and Data Analytics (ICAD 2025), hosted by Tufts University School of Engineering
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Li Xu and her CUES project
JUN 2025 | How nurse educators are using simulation to evaluate competency in undergraduate learners (Extramural)
INACSL2025 (International Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning) Conference
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Sinoski, J.A., Rogers, B.A., Moreland, E., Wands, L.M., Campbell, S.H., Luctkar-Flude, M., De La Rocha, A.B., & Killam, L.A.)
JUN 2025 | Fairness in focus: implementing equitable and just assessments in simulation education (Extramural)
INACSL2025 (International Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning) Conference
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Rogers, B.A., Dhom, M., Lysius, D., & Aguirri, A.B.)
JUN 2025 | Community Mentor-Apprentice Program Design Workshop
Hosted by the American Indian Language Development Institute
A workshop stemming from CUES Distinguished Fellow, Aresta Tsosie-Paddock's CUES project
JUN 2025 | La Frontera Revisited: Analyzing Cross-Border Collaborations and Narratives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Extramural)
ICA@75 Conference: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Jessica Retis and her CUES project (with Mercado, A.)
JUN 2025 | Integrating compassion and simulation technology: advancing care with extended reality, artificial intelligence, and biosensors (Extramural)
Inland NW Nurse Educator Conference, Hosted by the School of Health Sciences, Gonzaga University
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Sepanloo, K., & Shevelev, D.)
MAY 2025 | Assessing cognitive load in nursing training using extended reality and physiological monitoring (Extramural)
2025 IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers) Annual Conference & Expo
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Sepanloo, K., & Son, Y.J.)
APR 2025 | Community Stories and Experiential Learning in the Borderlands: A Pedagogical Framework
Featuring members of the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team, this hybrid exhibition will bring you inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
APR 2025 | A Model Framework for Integrating Bi-national Community-Engaged, Culturally Responsive Partnerships into Sustainability Education (Extramural)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025
A presentation featuring the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Team and their CUES project
APR 2025 | Integrating CLA into First Year Writing and Spanish Teaching
Part of the Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Action Series, University of Arizona
A presentation connected to the 2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team project (Staples et al.), featuring guest speakers Meghan Moran Wilson, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University and Lillian Gorman, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
APR 2025 | Reflection in Experiential Learning: Improving Affective Student Learning Outcomes
Featuring Brian Mayer, CUES Distinguished Fellow, Acting Director of the School of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Public Health, this hybrid seminar and panel will bring participants inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
MAR 2025 | From Words to Worlds: Genre Pedagogies and Corpus Tools to Foster Critical Language Awareness in World Language Education
Part of the Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Action Series, University of Arizona
A presentation connected to the 2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team project (Staples et al.), featuring guest speaker Bruna Sommer-Farias, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
MAR 2025 | AI Enhanced Instruction: Fostering Human-AI Cocreation in Learning
2025 Teaching Exchange Symposium, Hosted by the University of Arizona
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project
MAR 2025 | Designing Assignments in an Online CURE to Advance Data Thinking and AI Literacy in Healthcare Breaches (Extramural)
36th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Hosted by University of Central Florida
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Li Xu and her CUES project
MAR 2025 | Place-Based Learning in the Arizona Borderlands
Featuring Jennifer Jenkins, CUES Distinguished Fellow, Professor in the Southwest Studies Center and Professor of English, this hybrid seminar and panel will bring participants inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
FEB-MAR 2025 | MECha Workshop: Advancing the Scholarship of Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning
This in-person two-day workshop will bring together U of A faculty and staff across all disciplines with the goal of furthering the scholarship and praxis of culturally responsive teaching and learning. The workshop will specifically focus on examples, questions, and pedagogies connected to local and place-based environments. Participants will workshop pedagogical possibilities, explore mechanisms for implementation in U of A courses, and generate ideas for designing scholarly activity aimed at studying the philosophy, design, implementation, and outcomes of culturally responsive teaching and learning. The workshop will build upon content shared through UCATT’s Inclusive Teaching mini-courses and the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Development Institute.
The workshop will feature a place-based, cultural experience in partnership with Galeria Mitotera and the U of A’s CIELO program. The experience will include a local food and mural tour, historical overview of South Tucson, and workshopping of connections to cross-disciplinary content.
FEB 2025 | Informational webinar: El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic (Extramural)
Hosted by Georgetown University Press
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Mahmoud Azaz and his CUES project (with Ayman Mohamed)
JAN - FEB 2025 | Engaging with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Workshop
Structured in three two-hour sessions over five weeks, this in-person workshop series will follow a flipped format (participants will read/prepare work in advance) and explore SoTL research questions, study designs, and methods of data collection and analysis.
The workshop, open to faculty and the U of A community, aims to support SoTL project design at our institution, particularly through proposals for CUES Distinguished Fellowships.
JAN 2025 | Intelligent simulation environment: extended reality and conversational artificial intelligence (Extramural)
IMSH2025: Society for Simulation in Healthcare Conference
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Janine Hinton and her CUES project (with Sepanloo, K. & Shevelev, D.)
JAN 2025 | The AI Savvy Educator: Transforming Course Design and Prep (Extramural)
2025 International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC) Lilly Conference, San Diego, CA
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project