Recognizing efforts to use more evidence-based methods to improve student performance, the Discipline-Based Science Education Resource Center (Db-SERC), located in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, gave 10 Pitt faculty members awards to “transform” the way their classes are taught.
Faculty members selected for the award receive up to $10,000. Uses for the money can include equipment, summer salaries for faculty or for paying graduate or undergraduate students for help in transforming the class.
Awardees included:
- Matteo Broccio, lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Russell J. Clark, senior lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Candice Damiani, lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences
- Jennifer Ganger, lecturer, Department of Psychology
- Kirill Kiselyov, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences
- Bryan Nelson, assistant lecturer, and Nancy Pfenning, senior lecturer, Department of Statistics
- Armin Schikorra, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics
- Michelle Ward, lecturer, Department of Chemistry
- David Nero, lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy; and Rashid Williams-Garcia, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Neurobiology
Faculty members are also encouraged to share their course transformations within faculty learning communities. This sharing of information supports and promotes scholarly approaches to teaching and learning, and faculty members can help each other learn about evidence-based approaches they can use in their own courses.
Read more about the recognized projects and evidence-based teaching transformations in the University Times.