The registration numbers are growing by the day for the faculty development event by Bob Noyd on March 23. His three sessions will cover timely topics important to anybody involved in the instruction of college students. Please take a moment to register for one or all of the interactive sessions now as it is important for us to have an accurate count for space and food. Adam Easterling has joined the staff of CTLE as a student assistant. Adam is a freshman who graduated from Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School in Beaumont and is majoring in engineering. Waterloo's Teaching-Based Research Group (TBRG), in association with the Centre for Teaching Excellence and the Teaching Excellence Council invites you to participate in a two-day conference of research on teaching and learning and its application in the course setting. Keynote speaker is Dr. Maryellen Weimer, who will give the Presidents’ Colloquium talk, Can Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Actually Improve my Teaching? Keeley, Smith, and Buskist, in their article "Differentiating Psychology Students’ Perceptions of Teachers Using the Teacher Behaviors Checklist," asked students to rate their best and worst college professors using the Teacher Behaviors Checklist at two different types of institutions. They found that the teachers at the two institutions, one heavily focused on research while the second was more teaching focused, received similar ratings.