In Praise of Exceptional Teaching: Two ESG Math Lecturers Retiring

Dr. Gabrielle Stoy and Dr. Jerry Orloff, ESG’s long-time math lecturers, will retire at the end of this year. Over their two decades at ESG, Gabrielle and Jerry have taught and advised hundreds of ESG first-year students and mentored many undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), shaping the first-year experience. They have advanced ESG’s educational mission of […]

Flipping Failure featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

TLL’s Flipping Failure Initiative Featured in the CHE! Beckie Supiano highlights Flipping Failure in the March 21 edition of her weekly Teaching newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, she quotes Ruthann Thomas, TLL Associate Director for Teaching and Learning: “Last year, we made a short video of past Flipping Failure participants discussing the impact and benefits of the workshop series to codify and […]

Meet Our 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow!

MIT junior Victory Yinka-Banjo is the PKG Center’s 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Fellow! Victory is partnering with NaijaCoder Inc. and the University of Lagos’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLAB) to support youth, promote sustainable development, and foster lasting peace in Nigeria.⁠ Victory’s project aims to provide quality computer science education to undeserved high […]

Old Ironsides Battalion Spring Update

As students settle back in to the routine this spring, several Battalion events have been keeping them busy! Among the many highlights of the past few weeks was the Notre Dame Leadership Weekend, held in Indiana the second weekend of February. Three midshipmen and our Marine Officer Instructor, Captain Brendan Connors, represented the Old Ironsides […]

OVC Staff Council Is Off and Running!

The inaugural OVC Staff Council is excited to hit the ground running. The Staff Council was an idea that came from the OVC headquarters team to help promote cross-office collaboration and create a strong sense of community within the division. This council is made up of 13 staff members from a variety of offices within […]