2019 STEM Innovation Fellows Chosen

February 8, 2019

The leadership team of the NSF-funded IUSE:EHR project, REFLECT, has announced its second cohort of STEM Innovation Fellows. These 15 faculty members will participate in May and August institutes on evidence-based pedagogical practices, creation of new curricular modules, and peer-observation during the 2019-2020 academic year. The peer observation is informed by new protocols that address the formative assessment of participants’ teaching.

Congratulations to our 2019 STEM Innovation Fellows:

Hannah Highlander, mathematics
Christina Ivler, Shiley School of Engineering
Jordan Farina, Shiley School of Engineering
Beth Morton, chemistry
Paige Hall, chemistry
Tim Doughty, Shiley School of Engineering
Kathleen Bieryla, Shiley School of Engineering
Joseph Hoffbeck, Shiley School of Engineering
Christine Engesser Cesar, biology
Rachel Hutcheson, chemistry
David Wynne, biology
Hans Nordstrom, mathematics
Chris Hallstrom, mathematics
Sarah Schmits, biology
Amy Beadles-Bohling, biology

For more information contact Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, at salomone@up.edu.

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