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Website Updates Underway

The CIRCLE website is undergoing updates to better reflect current projects and services. If you have any questions or need help locating anything please contact Chris Wally at cwally@wustl.edu.

CIRCLE Conference to be held in Spring 2022

Due to precautions related to COVID-19, the CIRCLE conference has been rescheduled to Spring 2022. Please note this date change from the originally planned dates of October 2020 and April 2021. This conference, co-hosted by Washington University’s Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) and The University of Utah’s Department of Chemistry, […]

CIRCLE Speaker Series – Scott Lewis – Postponed

***UPDATE to the previous updates*** This event is now postponed until further notice due to precautions related to COVID-19. More information will be provided when it becomes available. **UPDATE** This event has been postponed until Fall Semester 2020 due to WashU’s new ban on non-essential university travel due for the rest of the spring semester […]

Inclusive Advising Workshop: March 13th

**UPDATE: This event has been postponed until further notice** A 90-minute interactive workshop will be held from 10:30 am to Noon on March 13th, and is open to all interested advisers, student affairs professionals, and staff serving students from the Danforth and Medical campuses. The workshop will be focused on how to have difficult conversations […]

Undergrad Researchers Present Posters at Research Symposium

On Saturday, November 2nd, CIRCLE Undergraduate Researchers J.D. Young and Neil Vuppala presented data from projects they have been working on with CIRCLE staff at WashU’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. J.D.’s research focused on qualitative analysis of students’ social belonging in introductory STEM courses, and Neil’s research looked at performance data related to concept-learning in introductory […]