In addition to working and providing feedback on their visions in large groups, participants also have the opportunity to interact with renowned MIT faculty and administrators, known as cluster facilitators, in smaller group settings.
This year's cluster facilitators included Suzy Nelson, vice president and dean of student life; Judy "JJ" Jackson, diversity and inclusion officer; Joseph Granado, associate director of student activities and leadership; Akunna Rosser, assistant director for prehealth advising; and Shawn Ferullo, chief of orthopedics and student health.
Based on the clusters, facilitators suggest contrasting scenarios discussing with the audience.
The most abundant gene families shared by the two UM isolates were those encoding cytochrome P450 (13 clusters), major facilitator superfamily (nine clusters) and the heterokaryon incompatibility protein (eight clusters).
The two-cluster specific major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters export terrein into the rhizosphere.
We also used robust estimates in Stata to account for clustering by general practice and a previously published method to account for clustering by physical activity facilitator.
The complexity of the clustered PBL process, with each facilitator rotating around seven different student clusters, each of which is studying a different case, also raised misgivings at the pre-facilitation meeting.
Despite some initial misgivings about the time restraints involved in managing this more complex clustered PBL methodology, facilitators agreed that they managed the procedure effectively and that they enjoyed the process.
To illustrate this, Kapnick's facilitators shared a cluster chart of LSAT scores and GPAs that demonstrated how hard it can be to distinguish one high achiever from another; elite law students were, for the most part, one big, barely decipherable blob at the top of the chart.
