The Fall 2024 Faculty Showcase on AI features presentations on AI and research, and on AI and Teaching. Sessions are labeled “Research” or “Teaching” if you choose to follow a track. All rooms are inside the ADP Center, first floor of University Hall.
Breakfast and registration: 9:30-10
ADP Center Commons
Breakfast sponsored by University Libraries and the Office for Undergraduate Education, Success, and Academic Innovation.
Session 1: 10-10:50
Research
Use Case Studies (UH 1121)
Patrica Virella (Educational Leadership): Leveraging Generative AI for Enhanced Research
Figen Suchanek (Chemistry, Bloomfield College): ChatGPT’s Role in Predicting Air Quality: Simplifying Complex Environmental Data, with Rithvik Dhanpal, Paula Perez
Brenda Marshall and Katherine Roberts (Nursing): Qualitative Research, an additional set of AI-eyes.
Moderator: Courtney Crimmins, OFE
Teaching
Course Experiments (ADP Commons)
Adam Rzepka (English): The “wastel-bowse”: Teaching With AI Slop
Lauren Fuentes (Writing Studies): Generative AI & the Writing Process: Frankenstein’s monster meets our computer overlords
Henry Margenau (Writing Studies): Pixelated Prose: Crafting Texts in the AI Era
Moderator: Vera Senina, OFE
Session 2: 11-11:50
Research
Research with and on AI (UH 1121)
Kazi Zakia Sultana (School of Computing) with Venkata Vivekananda Varma Datla: A Comparative Analysis between AI Generated Code and Human Written Code: A Preliminary Study
Justin Savage and Jacob Bilek (University Libraries): Searching with AI: An Introduction to Semantic Scholar
Weitian Wang (School of Computing), with Tara Troiano, Jonathan Liu, Amaar Rehman, Jesse Parron: Montclair AI Sandbox
Moderator: Gina Policastro, ITDS
Teaching
AI as Support for Professor and Students (UH 1120)
Christian Mathews (History): Lessons Learned from GenAI in Lesson Planning in Secondary Education,
Grace Cook (Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Bloomfield College): Using AI in the Math Classroom for ELL
Pavlo Lushyn (Educational Foundations): The Future of Tutoring: Developing Facilitation Skills through AI Tools
Moderator: Joe Yankus, ITDS
Roundtable (ADP Commons)
A Coalitionist Approach to Shaping Gen AI Literacy at the Department Level
Seán McCarthy (Writing Studies)
Jessica Restaino (Writing Studies)
Ron Brooks (Writing Studies)
Henry Margenau (Writing Studies)
Moderator: Vera Senina, OFE
Session 3: 12:12-50
Research
Uses and Responses to AI and Research (UH 1121)
Hao Liu (School of Computing): Generative AI in Biomedical Informatics: Reshaping Clinical Research and Care
Catherine Oliver and Michelle Echols (University Libraries): How Librarians Keep Robots from Killing You
Alina Reznitskaya (Educational Foundations): ArgCoach: Using AI to Support Teacher Facilitation of Argumentation During Discussions in Elementary Science Classrooms
Moderator: Courtney Crimmins, OFE
Teaching
Engaging AI in Critical Learning (UH1120)
Becky Ofrane with Amanda Birnbaum (Public Health): Teaching Students to Use and Assess AI for Health Communication
Enza Antenos (World Languages and Cultures): Reshaping the Landscape of Education: A Foray into Generative AI and Italian
Moderator: Catherine Keohane, OFE
Lunch: 12:50-1:30
ADP Center Commons