Welcome to the 2025 DELTA symposium!
A day of presentations, demonstrations, and networking opportunities devoted to the exploration of teaching innovation at Johns Hopkins University including the work of DELTA grant recipients. The symposium is intended to provoke conversation, spark new thinking, and advance the ongoing pursuit of teaching excellence.
Concurrent Session Request for Proposals
Submit a session proposal to share innovative or evidence-based teaching practices with your colleagues. More information about session formats and options available on the Proposal Form. Accepting proposals through March 23, 2025.
Symposium Schedule & Sessions
Date: May 1, 2025, 8:15am – 5:00pm (EDT)
Location: JHU Homewood Campus, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy (Building 17)
(also Online via Zoom, published just before event)
For technical assistance during the event, contact [email protected]
8:15am – 9:00pm: Registration and Breakfast
9:00am – 10:15am: Opening Remarks and AM Keynote Address with Dr. Neil Richard
Neil Richards holds the Koch Distinguished Professorship at Washington University School of Law, where he co-directs the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law. He is also an affiliate scholar with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and the Yale Information Society Project, and a consultant and expert in privacy cases. Professor Richards serves on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum and is a member of the American Law Institute. He writes, teaches, and lectures about the regulation of the technologies powered by human information that are revolutionizing our society. He is the author of Why Privacy Matters (Oxford Press 2022) and Intellectual Privacy (Oxford Press 2015). His award-winning writings on privacy and civil liberties have appeared in wide a variety of media, from the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal to The Guardian, WIRED, and Slate.
10:30am – 11:30am: Concurrent Sessions 1
11:45am – 12:45pm: Peabody Plenary Performance
12:45pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Birds of a Feather Tables
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Concurrent Sessions 2
2:45pm – 3:45pm: Concurrent Sessions 3
4:00pm – 5:00pm: PM Student Panel: What’s Up With Kids These Days?
Acknowledgements
- Dr. Ray Jayawardhana, Provost, Johns Hopkins University; Professor, Physics and Astronomy
- Dr. Stephen Gange, Executive Vice Provost, Academic Affairs; Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
The DELTA Forum Organizing Committee
- Ellen Bonta, Executive Assistant (Provost’s Office)
- Haley Knapp, Events Coordinator, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (Krieger School of Arts and Sciences)
- Caroline Egan, Program Manager, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (Krieger School of Arts and Sciences)
- Chadia Abras, Director, Institutional Assessment (Provost’s Office)
- Ira Gooding, Provost’s Fellow; Open Education Resource Manager (Bloomberg School of Public Health )
- Olysha Magruder, Interim Assistant Dean, Center for Learning Design & Technology (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Nathan Graham, Assistant Dean, Center for Media & Technology Solutions (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Elizabeth N. Bonilla, Media Production Manager, Center for Media & Technology Solutions (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Brad Aumiller, Media Systems Manager, Center for Media & Technology Solutions (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Danielle Armentrout, Director, Multimedia, Center for Media & Technology Solutions (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Joseph Montcalmo, Director, Learning Innovations (Peabody Institute)
- Kelly Orr, Director of Technology, Center for Media & Technology Solutions (Whiting School of Engineering)
- Michael J. Reese, Jr., Associate Dean, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation; Associate Teaching Professor, Sociology (Krieger School of Arts and Sciences)
- Sean Tackett, Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine (School of Medicine)
- Joanne Helouvry, Academic Liaison (Sheridan Libraries)
- Charles Wachira, Senior Director, Teaching & Learning (Carey Business School)
A special thanks to the team at the Center for Media & Technology Services (WSE) for providing the technical support and presenter preparation for the DELTA symposium!
We encourage you to read more about the DELTA Initiative, past grantees, and the 2025 Request for Proposals: https://provost.jhu.edu/about/digital-initiatives/delta/