TEA Recipients Listed by Year Awarded
TEA Recipients 2011 to 2015
TEA Recipients 2011 to 2015
Click below to expand each year and see the recipients with links to their essays.
- Alexandra Courtois de Vicose, History of Art, What Is It to Truly “See” and How to Deal with the Unseen
- Kathryn Fleishman, English, To Risk an Argument: Tweeting towards Independent Theses in English R1B
- Emily A. Hellmich, French (Home Department: Education), Becoming Your Own Dictionary: Increasing Participation and Communicative Confidence through Semiotic Brainstorming
- Chris Herring, Sociology, Sketching Social Theory Collectively
- Sandile Hlatshwayo, Economics, The Tipping Point: Encouraging Inclusive Participation through Productive Failure in a Highly Diverse Student Setting
- Marianne Kaletzky, Comparative Literature, Translating from Shakespeare to Modernism: An Experiment in How Form Affects Meaning
- Britney Kitamata-Wong, Integrative Biology (Home Department: Optometry), A Clinical Approach to Human Anatomy
- Auyon Siddiq, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Bridging Mathematical Models and Managerial Decisions
- Tobias Smith, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Attending to Attendance
- Dwight Springthorpe, Integrative Biology, Interdisciplinary Team Peer-to-Peer Learning with Guided Inquiry
- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rhetoric, Staging the Exchange: Learning to Read and Write Beyond Similarity and Opposition
- Tammy Stark, Linguistics, The Semester-Long Research Project Reimagined
- Shelly Steward, Sociology, Integrating Sociology into Students’ Lives through Twitter
- Rong “Rocky” Ye, Chemistry, Achieving Higher Efficiency in Chemistry Labs Using Electronic Scheduling
- Jordan Axelson, Chemistry, The Importance of Implicit Feature Awareness for Problem Solving in Organic Chemistry
- Laurence Coderre, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Moving Beyond Plot Summary: Doing Things with Words
- Jesse Cordes Selbin, English, Empowered Learning: History, Collaboratively
- Caroline Delaire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Intuition is What You Need to Take Home!
- Jordan Greenwald, Comparative Literature, Interpretation as Staging: A Lesson on Dramatic Literature
- Anna Harkey, Anthropology, Bringing Archaeological Theory “Down to Earth”
- Nicholas Knight, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Help Them Help Themselves!
- Nadia Kurd, Molecular and Cell Biology, A Solution for Inclusion: Keeping Advanced Students Stimulated Without Leaving Others Behind
- Genevieve Painter, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Consensus Techniques for Learning Together
- Elise Piazza, Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies (Home Department: Vision Science), Achieving Widespread Participation through Evidence-Based Classroom Discourse
- Suzanne Scoggins, International and Area Studies (Home Department: Political Science), Encouraging Full Participation in Section
- Thunwa Theerakarn, Mathematics, Developing Interactive Applets to Help Students Visualize Multivariable Calculus
- Julie Wesp, Anthropology, The Hip Bone is Connected to the Thigh Bone: Fostering Higher-Order Learning by Not Answering Students’ Questions
- Elaine Yau, History of Art, Starting with Art for the First Time
- Jeffrey Benca, Integrative Biology, Teaching Students ‘Street Smarts’ Necessary for Navigating Peer-Reviewed Literature
- Daniel Bliss, Molecular and Cell Biology (Home Department: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute), Fostering the Ability to Think Like an Experimenter in a Lecture Course
- Lindsay Crawford, Philosophy, Confidence and the Character of Discussion: Attending to Framing Effects
- Justin Hollenback, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Problem Solving and the Random Number Generator
- Jennifer Johnson, Linguistics (Home Department: Education), Engaging with the Thesis Statement: Developing Metacognitive Skills in the Classroom through Peer Sharing, Peer Review, and Self-Review
- Ashley Leyba, History, Expanding the Classroom: Using bSpace to Encourage Student-Driven Discussion
- Sarah Mangin, English, Elusive Allusions: Discovering Kafka in Coetzee
- Yekaterina Miroshnikova, Molecular and Cell Biology (Home Department: Bioengineering), Breaking Down the Barriers Inhibiting Effective Learning Environments
- Raphaëlle Rabanes, Anthropology, Queering Anthropology: A Lived Experience of Critical Knowledge Production
- Anna Rubin, Public Policy, Policy Consulting Simulations as a Tool for Understanding and Applying Economic Concepts
- Margot Szarke, French, Making and Supporting an Argument
- Peyam Tabrizian, Mathematics, The Advantages of Rearranging the Topics Covered in a Course
- Ryan Turner, Astronomy (Home Department: Earth and Planetary Science), Seeing for Yourself
- Wendy Xin, English, X-Axis, Y-Axis, and Zzzz’s: Plotting Narrative at 8 AM
- Sarah Chihaya, Comparative Literature, References without Referents (Or, How My Class Learned to Start Worrying and Love Thomas Pynchon)
- William Coleman, History of Art, Self-Portraiture as a Teaching Tool
- Rebecca Elliott, Sociology, Maximizing the Impact of GSI Feedback through Reflections on Writing
- Mark Fisher, Political Science, Providing Skills, Not Summaries: Improving Reading Comprehension in Political Theory
- Francesca Fornasini, Astronomy, “Is This Right?” Building Confidence in Scientific Reasoning
- Conrad Hengesbach, Mathematics, The Challenges of Teaching in Summer Session
- Kevin Krasnow, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Understanding Long-Term Ecological Change with Tree Rings
- Marquise McGraw, Economics, Incorporating Active Learning and Technology into Teaching Economics
- Christopher Mead, English, Sacrifice and Literature (not published at recipient’s request)
- Shawhin Roudbari, Architecture, Using Students’ Design Work to Teach Design Theory and Criticism
- Sonja Schwartz, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Beyond Bean Counting: A New Laboratory to Teach the Concepts of Microevolution
- Amy Wolfson, African American Studies, The End of Romance: Teaching Students to Rethink ‘Wild’ Africa
- Ermine Fidan Elcioglu, Sociology, Reading Theory with Courage: One Way to Teach Critical Reading Skills
- Alejandra Figueroa-Clarevega, Molecular & Cell Biology, Building the Big Picture
- Emily Frey, Music, Teaching Basic Musicianship: An Ode to Chaos
- Lynn Huang, English, Anatomy of an Essay
- Stacy Jackson, Energy and Resources Group, An Effective Review Session (without Teaching to the Test)
- Allison Kidder, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Bringing Concepts to Life through Field Trips
- Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Near Eastern Studies, Multi-Sensory Windows into Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology
- Jessica Smith, Chemistry, A Pre-Lab Assignment for a More Efficient and Effective Laboratory
- Neil Switz, Biophysics, Teaching Quantitative Optical Filter Choice as Part of Practical Microscopy
- Sean Tanner, Public Policy, A “Tradeoffs” Method for Soliciting Student Feedback
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