TEA Recipients Listed by Year Awarded
TEA Recipients 2001 to 2005
TEA Recipients 2001 to 2005
Click below to expand each year and see the recipients with links to their essays.
- Badr Albanna, Physics, Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist
- Aubrey Clayton, Mathematics, The Meaning Behind the Symbols
- Christie Dowling, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Strategies to Provide Information Without Providing Answers
- Oron Frenkel, Public Health, Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama
- Amy Lerman, Political Science, It Said What? Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View
- Michael Markham, Music, Bringing Opera Closer to Home
- Karen McNeill, History, The Undergraduate Research Paper
- Vasudha Paramasivan, South and Southeast Asian Studies, “Telling” Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore
- Kathryn Peek, Astronomy, Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution
- Timothy Randazzo, Ethnic Studies, A New Approach to Teaching and Learning
- Alejandro Reyes Arias, Latin American Studies, The Challenge of Thinking Historically
- Christopher Rider, Business Administration, Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion
- William Short, Classics, Experiments in Communicative Latin
- Richard Keith Slotkin, Plant and Microbial Biology, Designing a Better Laboratory Course
- Benjamin Yost, Rhetoric, Becoming a Better Socrates
- Catherine Becker, History of Art, Making a Connection to the Distant Past
- Elzbieta Benson, Sociology, Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills
- Hélène Bilis, French, Giving a New Tune to Grammar
- Suzanne Blum, 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
- Gautam Borooah, Mathematics, When Wrong is All Right
- Kimberly Cassibry, History of Art, Teaching Roman Monuments
- Louis-Benoit Desroches, Astronomy, Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club
- William Dichtel, Chemistry, Teaching Alice
- Sophie Dumont, Molecular and Cell Biology, Motivating a Broad Audience with Research
- Anna Nisnevich, Music, Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
- Jessica Owley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Social Science Meets Physical Science
- David Radwin, Political Science, Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science
- William Scott, History, The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment
- Victoria Somoff, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Writing an Epistolary Novel in a Heritage Speaker Class
- Mayumi Takada, English, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask the Saturday Evening Post: or, How Literature is Like Math
- Mathew Wedel, Integrative Biology, How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities
- Yelena Baraz, Classics, A New Way to Appreciate Cicero’s Style
- Charles Scott Combs, Film Studies, Writers into Readers
- J. Peter Coppinger, Plant and Microbial Biology, Slimemolds vs. the MCATs
- Sarah Cunningham, Integrative Biology, Teaching an Uncommon Sense
- Huma Dar, South and South East Asian Studies, Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves
- Alexander Diesl, Mathematics, Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier
- Lael Gold, Comparative Literature, An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis
- James Endres, Molecular and Cell Biology, Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills
- Amanda Heddle, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Development of an Inquiry-Based Activity from a Content Intensive Curriculum
- Lisa Kaborycha, History, Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines
- Lyn Paleo, Public Health, Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum
- Gaurav Punj, IEOR, Think Out of the Box
- Gretchen Purser, Sociology, Theory as a Map
- Francesca Rivera, 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
- Heidi Saleh, Near Eastern Studies, Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature
- Elizabeth Shank, Molecular and Cell Biology, Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory
- Ajeet Shankar, Computer Science, The Zen of Reductions, (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One)
- Meredith Thomsen, Integrative Biology, Groupwritten
- Ana Villa-Lobos, Sociology, How to “Show” Sociology in an Academic World of “Telling”
- Chantelle Warner, German, Putting the Text Back in Text Book
- Jess Wendover, Architecture, Teaching Triangulation of Research Methods
- Christine Zalecki, Psychology, Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar
- Bryan Zeitler, Molecular and Cell Biology, Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion
- Antar Bandyopadhyay, Statistics, Mathematics: The Universal Language of Science
- Laura Basini, Music, Musical Form and Active Learning
- Mary Becker Quinn, Spanish and Portuguese, Charting the Plot of ‘La Noche Boca Arriba’
- Helen Boucher, Psychology, Helping Students Understand Prejudice
- Mai-Lin Cheng, English, Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature
- David Gard, Psychology, Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology
- John Johnson, Astronomy, TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning
- Kimberly Johnson, English, The Renaissance Lyric Poem as Pop Culture
- Tania Martin, Architecture, Engaging with Primary Sources and Making Connections to Readings and Lectures
- Kathryn Pearson, Political Science, Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process
- Edith Replogle Sheffer, History, Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps
- Viswanath Sankaran, Mathematics, Demystifying the Thought Process
- Susan Schwab, Molecular and Cell Biology, Players in the Pathway
- Connie Anderson, French, Hands-on Experience of French Irony
- Jennifer Bensadoun & Alexander Minnis, Epidemiology, Research Methods Applied to Public Health Topics: Using Breakout Groups to Foster Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
- A.S. Cheng, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Teaching My Students to Fish
- Melina Esse, Music, I Love to Listen to Music But I Don’t Know Anything About It
- Natalia Ferretti, Political Science, Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?
- William Hayes, Sociology, Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption
- Deanna Kiser, Near Eastern Studies, Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians
- Eric Masanet, Mechanical Engineering, Incorporating Design-for-Environment into the Undergraduate Product Design Curriculum
- Heather McCarty, History, Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation
- Nicholas L. Pivonka, Chemistry, Improving Laboratory Courses
- Jennifer Powell, Molecular and Cell Biology, Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools
- Selby Schwartz, Comparative Literature, Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?
- Giulietta Spudich, Molecular and Cell Biology, Linking Theory and Experiment in a Biochemistry Lab
- Holly Watkins, Music, Musical Representation and Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
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