Registration Open: Shedd Vocation Event 4/16

Students and faculty/staff guides are invited to attend the April 16, 2026 ACCA Vocation Event at Shedd Aquarium. The formal program will occur from 1:30 — 3:00 pm, but participants will be invited to explore aquarium exhibits before and/or after the event as desired. Space is limited to 50 participants (students and chaperones). Students must…

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Student Symposium Plenary Address: “Decoding AI”

At the Student Symposium in April, Dr. Steven Keith Platt will give the address entitled “Decoding AI”. An abstract is below. Please encourage students sign up to attend and to present on their own research for this April 18 event at Lewis University. Registration details can be found here: https://accachicago.org/student-symposium/ Abstract: This presentation will focus…

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Plenary Speaker Announced: Dr. Steven Platt

The plenary speaker for the April 18 Student Research Symposium will be Dr. Steven Platt. As Executive Lecturer and Director of Analytics at Loyola University Quinlan School of Business, Dr. Platt’s specific area of expertise is addressing areas like the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI: how we got here), the underlying structures of AI (how…

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ACCA/SHEDD AQUARIUM – MARINE AND ISLAND ECOLOGY

Information about the ACCA/Shedd Aquarium spring 2021 course on Marine and Island Ecology is listed under Shedd Aquarium on this site.  Because of Covid-19, the boat trip to the Bahama’s portion of the course has been cancelled for 2021 ACCA/Shedd Aquarium also offer a course in Fresh Water Ecology in the fall of 2020. For…

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ACCA Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium – Judson University, November 5 , 2022

2022 ACCA Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium, scheduled for Saturday, November 5, 2022 will be conducted “IN PERSON,” unless a change is necessary because of Covid  For information and registration, contact lpoteete-young@judsonu.edu The symposium brings together faculty from the ACCA institutions to exchange effective teaching strategies and innovations and/or to present their scholarship on teaching and…

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