Weekly Happenings: January 12-16, 2026

[April Dukes]

Hi all,

Happy New Year!

You can find links for the upcoming professional development workshops and seminars below and in the attached newsletter.

This is the first newsletter of 2026. Have a great Spring Semester!

Pitt-CIRTL Spring Classes

• Prep for an Academic Career
• Advancing Learning Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching

CIRTL Network

• Self-Paced Teaching & Learning Courses (2025-2026 Academic Year)
• Finishing your Diss/Thesis
• Research Mentor Training
  
• Panel(s) of Early Career Faculty
  
• CVs for the Academic Job Market
• Cover Letters for the Academic Job Market

dB-SERC

• dB-SERC Lunch Discussion

University Center for Teaching and Learning

• Creating Interactive Course Elements Using H5P
• Lucid and Canvas
• Introduction to Digital Accessibility

Office of Academic Career Development

• Navigating the New NIH Review Landscape: Insights into the Simplified Review Framework
  

Health Sciences Library System (HSLS)

• RCR Session: The NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
• Gene Regulation
• Painless Pubmed

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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