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Award Essays

Architecture

• Engaging with Primary Sources and Making Connections to Readings and Lectures, Tania Martin
• Teaching Triangulation of Research Methods, Jess Wendover

Astronomy

• Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics, Steve Dawson
• Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club, by Louis-Benoit Desroches
• TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning, John Johnson
• Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution, Kathryn Peek

Business Administration

• Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion, Christopher Rider

Chemistry

• 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, by Suzanne Blum
• Teaching Alice, by William Dichtel
• Improving Laboratory Courses, Nicholas L. Pivonka
• Chemistry: The Other Foreign Language, Joel Thornton

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Strategies to Provide Information Without Providing Answers, Christie Dowling

Classics

• A New Way to Appreciate Cicero's Style, Yelena Baraz
• Reciting Latin Verse, Edan Dekel

Comparative Literature

• Nonstandard Approaches to Post-modernist Literature, Kate Elkins
• An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis, Lael Gold
• Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?, Selby Schwartz
• Experiments in Communicative Latin, William Short

Computer Science

• The Zen of Reductions (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One), Ajeet Shankar

Education

Film Studies

• Writers into Readers, Charles Scott Combs

 French

• Hands-on Experience of French Irony, Connie Anderson
• Giving a New Tune to Grammar, by Hélène Bilis

German

• Putting the Text Back in Text Book, Chantelle Warner

History

• Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines, Lisa Kaborycha
• Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation, Heather McCarty
• The Undergraduate Research Paper, Karen McNeill
• Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps, Edith Replogle Sheffer
• The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment, by William Scott

History of Art

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

• Think Out of the Box, Gaurav Punj

Integrative Biology

• Teaching an Uncommon Sense, Sarah Cunningham
• Teaching to Different Modes of Learning, Alexander Kauffman
• An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning, Terry O'Brien
• Groupwritten, Meredith Thomsen
• How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities, by Mathew Wedel

Latin American Studies

• The Challenge of Thinking Historically, Alejandro Reyes Arias

Mathematics & Statistics

• Mathematics: The Universal Language of Science, Antar Bandyopadhyay
• When Wrong is All Right, Gautam Borooah
• The Meaning Behind the Symbols, Aubrey Clayton
• Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier, Alexander Diesl
• Demystifying the Thought Process, Viswanath Sankaran

Mechanical Engineering

• Teaching My Students to Fish, A.S. (Ed) Cheng
• Incorporating Design-for-Environment into the Undergraduate Product Design Curriculum, Eric Masanet

Molecular and Cell Biology

• Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills, James Endres
• Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools, Jennifer Powell
• Players in the Pathway, Susan Schwab (Molecular and Cell Biology)
• Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory, Elizabeth Shank
• Linking Theory and Experiement in a Biochemistry Lab, Giulietta Spudich
• Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion, Bryan Zeitler

Music

• Musical Form and Active Learning, Laura Basini
• 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
• Bringing Opera Closer to Home, Michael Markham
• Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, by Anna Nisnevich
• 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
• Musical Representation and Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Holly Watkins

Near Eastern Studies

• Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians, Deanna Kiser
• Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature, Heidi Saleh

Physics

• Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist, Badr Albanna

Plant and Microbial Biology

• Slimemolds vs. the MCATs, J. Peter Coppinger
• Designing a Better Laboratory Course, Richard Keith Slotkin

Political Science

• Encouraging and Affirming Diverse Forms of Class Participation, Paul Dosh
• Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?, Natalia Ferretti
• It Said What?: Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View, Amy Lerman
• Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process, Kathryn Pearson
• Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science, by David Radwin

• Helping Students Understand Prejudice, Helen Boucher
• Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology, David Gard
• Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar, Christine Zalecki

Public Health

• Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama, Oron Frenkel
• Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum, Lyn Paleo

Rhetoric

• Becoming a Better Socrates, Benjamin Yost

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sociology

• Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills, by Elzbieta Benson
• Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption, William Hayes
• Theory as a Map, Gretchen Purser
• How to 'Show' Sociology in an Academic World of 'Telling', Ana Villa-Lobos

South and South East Asian Studies

• Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves, Huma Dar
• "Telling" Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore, Vasudha Paramasivan

Spanish & Portuguese

• Charting the Plot of 'La Noche Boca Arriba', Mary Becker Quinn

   

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