Weekly Happenings: February 16-20, 2026

[April Dukes]

Hi all,

Below are the professional development opportunities for this week.

CIRTL Network

• Self-Paced Teaching & Learning Courses (2025-2026 Academic Year)
• Maximizing Learning Outcomes from Instructional Demonstration: Balancing Instructor- and Student-Led Experiential Learning
• Teaching Statements for the Academic Job Market
• Quick Tips for Teaching
• Research Statements for the Academic Job Market

dB-SERC

• dB-SERC Lunch Discussion

University Center for Teaching and Learning

• Canvas Refresher: SpeedGrader and Gradebook
• Developing a Syllabus
• NotebookLM for Academia
  

Office of Academic Career Development

• LinkedIn is a Necessity, Not an Option

Health Sciences Library System

• Painless Pubmed
• R Bootcamp Week 2: Data Centric R with tidyverse
• Git for version control and collaboration
  

--

April Dukes, Ph.D.

(she/her/hers)

Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director

Pitt-CIRTL Coordinator

Engineering Education Research Center

Contact Information

Email:  apr...@pitt.edu

Phone:  412-383-6014

Address:University of Pittsburgh

3700 O'Hara St

B-12 Benedum Hall

Pittsburgh, PA 15261