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Art and Architecture

• Making a Connection to the Distant Past, Catherine Becker (History of Art)
• Teaching Roman Monuments, Kimberly Cassibry (History of Art)
• Engaging with Primary Sources and Making Connections to Readings and Lectures, Tania Martin (Architecture)
• Teaching Triangulation of Research Methods, Jess Wendover (Architecture)

Engineering

• Teaching My Students to Fish, A.S. (Ed) Cheng (Mechanical Engineering
• Strategies to Provide Information Without Providing Answers, Christie Dowling (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
• Incorporating Design-for-Environment into the Undergraduate Product Design Curriculum, Eric Masanet (Mechanical Engineering)
• Think Out of the Box, Gaurav Punj (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)

Foreign Languages

Humanities

• A New Way to Appreciate Cicero's Style, Yelena Baraz (Classics)
• Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature, Mai-Lin Cheng (English)
• Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves, Huma Dar (South and South East Asian Studies)
• Reciting Latin Verse, Edan Dekel (Classics)
• Nonstandard Approaches to Post-modernist Literature, Kate Elkins (Comparative Literature)
• An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis, Lael Gold (Comparative Literature)
• The Renaissance Lyric Poem as Pop Culture, Kimberly Johnson (English)
• Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines, Lisa Kaborycha (History)
• Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians, Deanna Kiser (Near Eastern Studies)
• Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation, Heather McCarty (History)
• The Undergraduate Research Paper, Karen McNeill (History)
• "Telling" Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore, Vasudha Paramasivan (South and Southeast Asian Studies)
• A New Approach to Teaching and Learning, Timothy Randazzo (Ethnic Studies)
• The Challenge of Thinking Historically, Alejandro Reyes Arias (Latin American Studies)
• Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature, Heidi Saleh (Near Eastern Studies)
• Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?, Selby Schwartz (Comparative Literature)
• Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps, Edith Replogle Sheffer (History)
• The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment, William Scott (History)
• Experiments in Communicative Latin, William Short (Classics)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask the Saturday Evening Post: or, How Literature is Like Math, Mayumi Takada (English)
• Becoming a Better Socrates, Benjamin Yost (Rhetoric)
• From Description to Analysis, Andrea Zemgulys (English)

Music, Film and Performance Studies

• Musical Form and Active Learning, Laura Basini (Music)
• Writers into Readers, Charles Scott Combs (Film Studies)
• Hearing John Cage: An Approach to Introducing Ambient Music, Brian Current (Music)
• I Love to Listen to Music, But I Don't Know Anything About It, Melina Esse (Music)
• Cultural and Communicative Approaches to Teaching Music, Mathew Gelbart (Music)
• Bringing Opera Closer to Home, Michael Markham (Music)
• Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Anna Nisnevich (Music)
• If 'Writing about Music is Like Dancing about Architecture,' Maybe it is Time to Draw: Using Visual Aids to Introduce Musical and Stylistic Analysis, Francesca Rivera (Music)
• Musical Representation and Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Holly Watkins (Music)

Quantitative Fields

• Mathematics : The Universal Language of Science, Antar Bandyopadhyay (Mathematics & Statistics)
• When Wrong is All Right, Gautam Borooah (Mathematics)
• The Meaning Behind the Symbols, Aubrey Clayton (Mathematics)
• Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier, Alexander Diesl (Mathematics & Statistics)
• Demystifying the Thought Process, Viswanath Sankaran (Mathematics & Statistics)
• The Zen of Reductions (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One), Ajeet Shankar (Computer Science)

Sciences

• Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist, Badr Albanna (Physics)
• Current-Literature Problem Solving as a Connection to the Real World: How Solving a Problem in the Classroom Expanded Professor-Graduate Student Mentorship from the Laboratory into the Classroom, Suzanne Blum (Chemistry)
• Slimemolds vs. the MCATs, J. Peter Coppinger (Plant and Microbial Biology)
• Teaching an Uncommon Sense, Sarah Cunningham (Integrative Biology)
• Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics, Steve Dawson (Astronomy)
• Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club, Louis-Benoit Desroches (Astronomy)
• Teaching Alice, William Dichtel (Chemistry)
• Motivating a Broad Audience with Research, Sophie Dumont (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills, James Endres (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Development of an Inquiry-Based Activity from a Content Intensive Curriculum, Amanda Heddle (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
• TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning, John Johnson (Astronomy)
• Teaching to Different Modes of Learning, Alexander Kauffman (Integrative Biology)
• An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning, Terry O'Brien (Integrative Biology)
• Social Science Meets Physical Science, Jessica Owley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
• Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution, Kathryn Peek (Astronomy)
• Improving Laboratory Courses, Nicholas L. Pivonka (Chemistry)
• Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools, Jennifer Powell (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Players in the Pathway, Susan Schwab (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory, Elizabeth Shank (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Designing a Better Laboratory Course, Richard Keith Slotkin (Plant and Microbial Biology)
• Linking Theory and Experiement in a Biochemistry Lab, Giulietta Spudich (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Groupwritten, Meredith Thomsen (Integrative Biology)
• Chemistry: The Other Foreign Language, Joel Thornton (Chemistry)
• How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities, Mathew Wedel (Integrative Biology)
• Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion, Bryan Zeitler (Molecular and Cell Biology)

Social Sciences

• Research Methods Applied to Public Health Topics: Using Breakout Groups to Foster Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, Jennifer Bensadoun & Alexander Minnis (Epidemiology)
• Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills, Elzbieta Benson (Sociology)
• Helping Students Understand Prejudice, Helen Boucher (Psychology)
• Encouraging and Affirming Diverse Forms of Class Participation, Paul Dosh (Political Science)
• Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?, Natalia Ferretti (Political Science)
• Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama, Oron Frenkel, (Public Health)
• Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology, David Gard (Psychology)
• Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption, William Hayes (Sociology)
• It Said What?: Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View, Amy Lerman (Political Science)
• Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum, Lyn Paleo (Public Health)
• Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process, Kathryn Pearson (Political Science)
• Theory as a Map, Gretchen Purser (Sociology)
• Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science, David Radwin (Political Science)
• Not Exactly Dick and Jane: Using Children’s Books to Make Theory Accessible, Anne Marie Richard (Education)
• Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion, Christopher Rider (Business Administration)
• How to 'Show' Sociology in an Academic World of 'Telling', Ana Villa-Lobos (Sociology)
• Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar, Christine Zalecki (Psychology)

   

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