VISITING our TEACHING PARTNERS in the UNITED KINGDOM

We visited with our two U.K. partners this summer to teach and plan.

First, Seung visited Haileybury College in Hertford where he was hosted by Vicky Turner and Gareth Lewis, and head of school Martin Collier. Seung visited the Stan-X class and shared meals and discussed a paper with the students. He also attended Chapel and was treated to some splendid meals with the students and faculty colleagues. He briefly toured the nearly-completed SciTech building, which was scheduled to open early in the new 2023-2024 school year. SciTech looked pretty spectacular! He also participated in a faculty round table to discuss curricular planning around experience-based science, that included Gareth, Liam Duffy, the deputy head of STEM research and partnerships, and Arthur Kattavenos, Haileybury’s Head of Science.

Afterwards, Seung visited the University of Oxford and the Stanford Bing Overseas Program (BOSP) to lecture and visit with students in the course he co-taught with his teaching partner, Prof. Alberto Baena-Lopez in the Dunn School of Pathology. Seung was pleased to meet his students Jessica and Marianne, two juniors from Stanford who were taking the Animal Transgenesis course as an enrichment experience. The Oxford-Stanford course involved lectures and tutorial style discussions of writing assignments. Seung was housed at Lincoln College, and met with Alberto to plan future courses. The week visit culminated in an intensive writing and coaching session, followed by a fine meal in the heart of London. That evening, there was a farewell banquet at the Savile Club in London, hosted by the director of BOSP at Oxford, Dr. Stephanie Solywoda.