Convening 2023

Visitors can connect to the wireless network called IU Guest, which is available throughout the IU Campus.  For additional connection information, visit https://kb.iu.edu/d/atkx.

Visitors from eduroam subscriber institutions can also connect to the eduroam wireless network on the IU Campus.

Welcome! We'll have a check-in desk in the IMU Tudor Room, starting at 6pm on Tuesday October 24. That's where you'll pick up your name badge, a printed agenda, a map, and some additional goodies. If you can't make it to the Tudor Room on Tuesday evening, no worries, you can check-in (and receive your badge and goodies) when you arrive at the McCalla School Building on Wednesday morning.

You can go bowling in the IMU, visit the IU Art Museum, explore the Biology Building Greenhouse, get a photo with Harlan, the world's largest anatomically correct brain sculpture, take a walk on the B-line, get lost in the Bloomington Antique Mall, or check out the Lilly Library, which houses the Jerry Slocum Collection of mechanical puzzles.  

Check out the Bloomington Events Calendar for local events and shows. Round up some other incubator members to visit the Get Out Bloomington escape room (last booking is at 8:30pm). If you want to avoid the student scene, Cardinal Spirits has an amazing Fall cocktail menu, or try Atlas Ballroom.

A first-aid kit (minor wound care) and basic health essentials (pain/fever reducer, allergy medicine, antacid, tweezers, nail trimmers) will be available throughout the convening.  Kits are available in most meeting rooms of the McCalla School Building, as well as the McCalla Wellness Room, and a kit will also be available at all meals. Don't hesitate to ask a member of the steering committee if you need something.

The nearest urgent care facility is IU Health Urgent Care Bloomington, open 8am to 8pm.

Incubator members' travel expenses (including economy air travel, personal vehicle gas/mileage, parking, and any additional travel costs to/from/within Bloomington) will be reimbursed by Indiana University, along with the incubator honorarium. Travel reimbursement will be managed by John Spencer.  You should have received a link to a travel reimbursement form (if you need the link again, please contact John or any member of the steering committee). Even though this form is designed for IU employees, it will help us stay organized and will speed your reimbursement. In the form, you only need to provide your name, your email address, your contact information (which should be the mailing address where you want to receive a reimbursement check), as well as copies of receipts for travel expenses. Personal vehicle mileage is reimbursed at a rate of $.655 per mile for the first 500 miles, and $.3275 per mile for 501 miles or more. Receipts should show the method of payment (commonly, the last 4 digits of your credit card number). Submit the form within 60 days after the convening.

Sure can! :) The incubator’s purpose is to identify research needs for studying teaching practices that improve equity in STEM, and to solidify a detailed design plan for infrastructure to address these needs comprehensively, and at scale. Eventually, we’ll present this design as an NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure proposal. But first, we need to start to identify those needs – and we’ll do so by discussing our interests, insights, and experiences, and collaboratively brainstorming ideas for the research we’d conduct if there were no infrastructure limitations at all. That’s the plan for our first convening – in small groups we’ll get to know each other, learn about each other's expertise, and co-create research designs that address equity issues in STEM education.