CVC

The CVC formed during the preparation of proposals for the 2012 “College’s science education” grant program sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Six institutions (listed below) created the CVC with the goal of providing workshops for faculty to enhance their capacity to use increasingly complex and large data sets in their research and classrooms.

Faculty from non-CVC institutions are welcome to participate as well.

Teaching Resources

• Data and Computing Fundamentals is a course covering most of the techniques that will be introduced at the CVC workshop. Notes for the class are available here. The textbook Data Computing will be given to each workshop participant.
• A recent outgrowth of the CVC is the MAA/ASA/AMATYC project StatPREP
which provides support to statistics instructors at two-year colleges and elsewhere to introduce data-science techniques into their curriculum. The instructor development resources for StatPREP may be useful to CVC participants.

Events

Fifth annual workshop June 12-16, 2017 at Macalester College Agenda and Schedule

Fourth annual workshop June 20-24, 2016 at Pomona College Agenda and Schedule

Third annual workshop July 13-17, 2015 at Smith College Agenda and Schedule

Second annual workshop: July 7-11, 2014 at Macalester College. Agenda and Schedule

First annual workshop: June 12-14, 2013 at Calvin College. Agenda and Schedule

Institutional Representatives

• Macalester College: Paul J. Overvoorde (Associate Professor of Biology)
• Calvin College: Randy Pruim (Professor of Mathematics and Statistics)
• Grinnell College: Leslie Gregg-Jolly (Professor of Biology)
• Gustavus Adolphus: Jeff Dahlseid (Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry)
• Lawrence University: Beth DeStasio and Nancy Wall (Professor of Biology)
• Amherst College: Nicholas Horton (Professor of Statistics)