FES Community Coffee
The goal of these joint faculty, student, and staff coffees is to promote collaboration and discuss complex ideas and trends related to FES research, teaching, and outreach goals. The current FES coffee organization came about after discussion in March 2017 (notes from that discussion), and the current organization is detailed here.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Discussion |
| Nov. 15, 2023 | Faculty intros: Jacob Bukosi + Vernita Ediger | Burnout! Reading: Walking Faculty Back from the Cliff Department Environment and Work-to-Life Conflict Among Faculty in the STEM Fields |
| June 1, 2023 | Community member intro: Miles Phillips | Interdisciplinary Training Program on Forest-based Climate Solutions - graduate training proposal from a team of FES researchers |
| April 12, 2023 | Ian Munanura | Post-pandemic pedagogy and how we can adjust our courses and assignment structure to meet students where they are right now, led by Ashley and Troy Course Correction |
| March 8, 2023 | The ChatGPT AI program | ChatGPT Educators weigh the pros and cons of ChatGPT |
| January 31, 2023 | Flash presentations by Klaus Puettmann and Jazmin Gonzales Tovar | Topic: Open conversation on possible future topics |
| May 18, 2022 | Keith Jayawickrama (FES), Shelly Signs (Co-chair of the OSU Carbon Commitment Committee) and Brandon Trelstad (from the Sustainability Office) | Topic: OSU’s Carbon Commitment and Climate Plan notes from Forestry Executive Committee meeting in March 2020 OSU FY21 GHG report |
| April 20, 2022 | Sean Nealon and Steve Lundeberg, University Marketing and Communication | Topic: A discussion about telling our research stories to a public audience The Power of Story (pdf), E.O. Wilson Utilizing Traditional Storytelling to Promote Wellness in American Indian Communities |
| May 24, 2021 | Eli Swanson and Tak Iwamura | Topic: “Future of education and academia after COVID” Academia after COVID, Scientific American |
| March 1, 2021 | Introductions from our new graduate student and postdoc FES Coffee committee members Claire Tortorelli, Rebecca Lemons, and Nicholas Dankers Ways of doing science, spring-boarded by this recent article titled "Abuses of Popper", led by Michael Nelson |
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| June 2, 2020 | Open discussion to reflect on how the term has gone A guide to staying safe this summer, The Atlantic |
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| Mar 11, 2020 | Dr. Xiangyou (Sharon) Shen, Visiting Assistant Professor | Dr. Bev Law will lead our continuing discussion of climate change within the context of our work in the College of Forestry |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Troy Hall and Kailey Kornhauser, PhD student working with Reem Hajjar | Steve Strauss will lead a discussion "Should we stop acting as though major climate change can be averted, and what might that mean?" based on the recent New Yorker article Article pdf - New Yorker website | Vox rebuttal |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Scott Harris | Creating an Equitable and Inclusive Classroom, Jane Waite, Director of the Social Justice Education Initiative, Faculty Affairs, OSU Self-Development Guide |
| June 7, 2019 | Jenn Bailey Guerrero |
Ariel Muldoon, Research Consulting Statistician for the College of Forestry, will lead a discussion about the misuse vs. appropriate use of P-values in research reporting. Please read: |
| May 8, 2019 | Jennah Stillman | Bill Ripple will present on his science advocacy work around the Scientists Second Warning to Humanity Nelson, M.P. and J.A. Vucetich. 2009. On Advocacy by Environmental Scientists |
| Apr 8, 2019 | Katy Kavanagh | Mark Needham discussion lead for the following topic: Is Email Making Professors Stupid? The Diminishing of ‘Deep Work’ |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Ana Barros | Anna Talucci will lead a discussion on risk management perspectives that can help to facilitate intentional dialogue around risk management for field-based activities |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Carrie Berger | Ashley D’ Antonio will lead a discussion on incorporating poetry into her undergraduate courses as part of their reading-related assessments, partially inspired by some tweets seen in 2015: https://conservationhaiku.org/about/ |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Gerald Page | Open discussion of the philosophy and methods for “coaching” with Paul Biwan, Associate Director of Learning & Organizational Development in the Department of Human Resources at OSU Alan Fine's TedX talk: You Already Know How to Be Great |
| Dec 7, 2018 | Brad Withrow-Robinson | Open discussion of “research group mentorship" Nature’s guide for mentors (pdf) |
| Oct 8, 2018 | Vanessa Petro | "The evolution and devolution of scientific publishing", Professor & Science Librarian Hannah Rempel and Resource Acquisition and Sharing Director Kerri Goergen-Doll from the OSU Library The "problem" of predatory publishing |
| June 4, 2018 | Randy Rosenberger | Michael Nelson will lead a discussion on the important topic of critical thinking and skills to be better thinkers Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists |
| May 16, 2018 | Janean Creighton | Reem Hajjar, with help from Andres Brown (a counsellor at OSU), will lead a discussion on the reported high rates of depression and anxiety among graduate students Mental Health Crisis for Grad Students |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Anna Magnuson | Matt Betts “When biodiversity strikes back: How (not to) survive in the jungle, and other stories” |
| Mar 5, 2018 | Michael Nelson | Nicole Strong, Fulfilling our Land Grant Mission: Producing Meaningful Outreach and Extension Universities Should Encourage Scientists to Speak Out about Public Issues |
| Feb 12, 2018 | Dr. Gabriel Salako | Dana Warren, Design and management of an academic laboratory in today’s world: Ethics, mentoring and burnout Research groups: How big should they be? (pdf) Bigger is not better when it comes to lab size Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time The future of the postdoc |
| Jan. 24, 2018 | Adam Hadley | Scott Vignos, Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of Institutional Diversity Guidance on Sensitive Topics Free Speech Tensions: Responding to Bias on College and University Campuses (pdf) |
| Dec. 1, 2017 | Dana Warren | Becca Gose, OSU General Counsel Hate speech article 1st Amendment article |
| Oct. 23, 2017 | Jim Rivers | Klaus Puettmann, work-life balance In Search of Lost Time 6 Tips For Better Work-Life Balance |
| Sep. 27, 2017 | Ashley D'Antonio | Prof. David Pengelley From lecture to active learning: Rewards for all, and is it really so difficult? (pdf) |
| June 14, 2017 | Ian Munanura Sara Galbraith |
Michael Nelson Ivory Towers in a World Without Elephants? |
| May 17, 2017 | Meg Krawchuk Mark Needham |
Chris Still Climate change impacts and research: what is FES doing (and what can we be doing)? The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (pdf) |
| Apr. 19, 2017 | Reem Hajjar Matt Betts |
Steve Strauss How to Fight the War on Science and Win |