Career Development in Teaching

Interested in pursuing teaching as part of your career?

The Chicago Center for Teaching has many resources to help with your career development, including a College Teaching Certificate, and a Teaching Fellowship. They also have online resources to help with questions you may have about teaching skills, as well as in-person consultations.

Chicago Center for Teaching Programs:

There are two programs that might be of interest to you:

The College Teaching Certificate provides a way to formally document your pedagogical development.

There is a suggested timeline for BSD students, while the application is here.

If you are interested in getting more involved in teaching at the University of Chicago, the CCT also offers a Fellows program. “Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT) Fellows are graduate students with a demonstrated commitment to teaching and interest in how people learn.” If you are interested, here is a suggested timeline for involvement specifically for BSD students.

You can find out more about the CCT Fellow program here.

Further career development:

You will also want to watch out for careers in teaching programming through myCHOICE. You’ll find some information about various careers here; watch their main website for programming information.

1890s

Henry Chandler Cowles: led formational work in the study of ecology

Botanist Henry Chandler Cowles’s study of ecological succession in the Indiana Dunes along the southern shore of Lake Michigan in the late 1890s opened a new field of inquiry in the natural sciences: ecology. The investigation of a changing natural landscape carries increasing importance amid growing concerns about our environment.

2006

Neil Shubin: discovered evolutionary link between fish and land animals

In 2006, paleontologist Neil Shubin discovered fossils of Tiktaalik roseae, the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that waddled out of water onto land 375 million years ago. Shubin’s key discovery advanced evolutionary biology, and his best-selling book and television series sparked popular interest in the subject.

A model of Tiktaalik roseae

2013

Robert Grossman: developed first NIH-approved cloud-based computing system to process cancer data

In 2013, data scientist Robert Grossman developed the Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud, the first cloud-based computing system approved by the National Institutes of Health to process data from the Cancer Genome Atlas, the agency’s flagship cancer genetics study. In late 2014, Grossman became director of the Genomic Data Commons, an NIH-funded project based on Bionimbus that will be the nation’s most comprehensive data facility when completed.

Robert Grossman, Professor in Medicine

2015

Clifton Ragsdale and Carrie Albertin: first to sequence octopus genome

Clifton Ragsdale, Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Organismal Biology and Anatomy, along with Organismal Biology graduate student Caroline Albertin and a team of researchers from University of California, Berkeley and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology sequenced the genome of the California Two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides).

The California Two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides)

1916

Ernest Everett Just: discovered significant aspect of cell cleavage

Ernest Everett Just, PhD 1916, worked with University of Chicago zoologist Frank Lillie at what is now the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. During dissertation research for his PhD in zoology, he made an important discovery about cell cleavage, showing that the sperm entry point determines the first cleavage plane in the egg of the marine annelid Nereis limbata.

Zoologist Ernest Everett Just