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SHERMAN, TEXAS—Austin College faculty Lance Barton and Stephanie Gould of the Science Division and Peter DeLisle, director of the Austin College Posey Leadership Institute, will discuss “STAR* Academy: training future scientists to lead the exploration of new frontiers” (*Science Teaching And Research) on Tuesday, September 24, at 11 a.m. in Wright Campus Center, Room 231. The presentation, the first of the Johnson Center Faculty Research and Pedagogy Talks of the year, is free and open to the public. A carry-your-tray luncheon at noon in Room 245 will allow continued discussion of the topic.
Barton, associate professor of biology, joined the Austin College faculty in 2003. Gould, who joined the faculty in 2008, is an associate professor of chemistry; and DeLisle, who joined the faculty in 2005, holds the Leslie B. Crane Chair in Leadership Studies.
“Future generations of scientists will be tasked with finding innovative solutions to problems that are greater in scale and magnitude than what we have ever faced,” Barton said. “A collaboration between the Posey Leadership Institute and faculty in the sciences will create a curriculum that will develop the technical, interpersonal, and leadership skills to prepare our graduates to work on these new scientific frontiers. “
At the presentation, the faculty will discuss the vision for the program, report some early experiments in the classroom, and define the model for developing professionalism and leadership from within academic disciplines.
Austin College’s Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching, is directed by Bernice Melvin, Margaret Root Brown Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures and professor of French. Within the mission of the center is the encouragement of ‘bold exploration of intellectual frontiers” and “fostering lively intellectual dialogue within and across academic disciplines.”
The Johnson Center schedules a number of events throughout the year, with presentations by Austin College faculty and guest lecturers.
Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original charter and name, the College is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges That Change Lives.
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