email to IMS and IBBME

[SaraMati]

To whom it may concern,

We are a group of graduate students passionate about scientific programming and reproducible and open science methods as part of the UofT Coders. For 3 years now, we've been holding weekly sessions on teaching programming skills for research (with Python and R) at UofT.
We have also developed an undergrad course that has been taught by us for the past two years, which we documented in this paper.

We are developing a course on scientific programming and reproducible workflows for the graduate level. Although the course is applicable to any stream of science and arts, for the the first rendition we are designing the course material (examples and practices) targeting students whose thesis would involve neuroscience and biomedical datasets. Three of your faculty members, Drs. Popovic, Hill and Valiante, cc'ed in the email, support this endeavour and are willing to present the course proposal to the necessary committees. If you're interested in speaking further about this course, please let us know what is the next step.

Thank you,

[linamnt]

Edited!

[lwjohnst86]

edited! I hope I'm not too late here.

[SaraMati]

This is the email that was sent to IMS Curriculum & Office Administrator, [email protected]

Dear Sarah Topa,
We* are developing a course on scientific programming and reproducible workflows for the graduate level. Three of your faculty members, Drs. Popovic Hill and Valiante, support this endeavour and are willing to present the course proposal to the necessary committees.
From what we learned by our communication with the VPAP, we realise that we should start from the graduate unit level. We would be grateful if you let us know what is the process at the departmental level.

for the start, I've attached the filled template that VPAP office provided.

Let me know what other documents you may need, whether all the three mentioned faculties should attend the committee meeting on April 19 or one representative faculty suffices, etc.

Thank you very much
Sara Mahallati
PhD candidate
Institute of Biomaterial and Biomedical Engineering
Collaborative program in Neuroscience
Krembil Research Institute
University of Toronto

*We are a group of senior graduate students passionate about scientific programming and reproducible and open science methods as part of the UofT Coders. For 3 years now, we've been holding weekly sessions on teaching programming skills for research (with Python and R) at UofT. The group have also developed an undergrad course that has been taught by us for the past two years, which we documented in this paper.

[SaraMati]

their response:

Hi Sara,

Thanks for your email. We’re in a bit of a transition period with our curriculum portfolio. I have forwarded your email on to the IMS leadership, and someone will follow up with you soon.

Sarah

Sarah Topa, MSc| International Program & Partnerships Officer

Institute of Medical Science | University of Toronto
1 King's College Circle, Room 2370 | Toronto, ON | M5S 1A8
phone: 416.946.0987 | e-mail: [email protected] | www.ims.utoronto.ca

[SaraMati]

Note: the start time for the new chair of our curriculum committee will be May 1, so expect the follow up shortly thereafter.

[joelostblom]

Did they ever get back to you on this @SaraMati ?