Mini-Grant Recipients

2018-2019

Title: Immigrants Are Us: Service Learning Project with the International Institute
Name: Robert Forrant
Department: History
Courses: - United States Immigration History 

Title: Immersive Virtual Field Trips
Name: Nelson G Eby
Department: Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Courses: Multiple Courses

Title: Use of Supplemental Instruction (SI) to Improve Performance of Students in Anatomy and Physiology
Name: Michelle Hunt
Department: Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences
Courses: Human Anatomy and Physiology

Title: Affordable Motion Capture for Animation, Games, and Studio Art
Name: Yuko Oda
Department: Art & Design
Courses: Foundation courses for freshman and sophomores.

Title: Students teaching students: Creation of instructional videos for the undergraduate organic lab
Name: Jessica Garcia
Department: Chemistry
Courses: Organic Chemistry Lab

Title: Improving First-Year Chemistry Success through Dual-Role Embedded Tutors
Name: Leslie Farris
Department: Chemistry
Courses: Chemistry I and II

Title: Hands-on learning and flying in the new Introduction to Aerospace course
Name: David Willis
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Courses: Introduction to Aerospace

2017-2018

Title: The Live Action Mural Project
Name:   Ellen Wetmore
Department: Art and Design
Course: Various Freshman Art and Design courses

Title: Implementing a Course-Embedded Writing Tutor Program
Name:  Mary Gormley
Department: English
Course:  The Seminar on Teaching Writing

Title: Integrating the Difference Makers Principles into the Nursing Curriculum
Name:  Mazen El Ghaziri and Ainat Koren
Department: School of Nursing
Courses:  Research in Nursing and Health Care (RNHC), Community Health and Health Policy (CHHP), and Community Health Project (CHP)

Title: Flipped Classroom, Free Textbooks, and an Embedded Tutor in the Honors Physics Sequence
Name:  Nikolay Lepeshkin
Department: Physics
Courses:  Honors Physics I and II

Title: Teaching Non-Traditional Music Learners with Compassion and Empathy
Name:  Gena Greher
Department: Music
Course:  Progressive Performance and Production Pedagogy

Title: Transformation of the ECE Teaching Laboratories - A New Laboratory Teaching Paradigm
Name:  Jay Weitzen and Dohn Bowden
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Courses:  Various 

Title: Vibes and Waves in Action
Name:  Susan Thomson Tripathy and Kavitha Chandra
Department: Sociology and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Courses:  Community Service and Signals and Systems

2016-2017

Title: Individualizing Feedback to Teacher Candidates Using the Teaching Channel & SWIVL Technology
Name: Michelle Scribner-MacLean, Clinical Associate Professor
Department: Graduate School of Education
Course: UTeach Project-Based Instruction

Title: Implementing Competence Progress Modules in Organic Chemistry
Name: Khalilah Reddie, Lecturer
Department: Chemistry
Course: Organic Chemistry

Title: Promoting Greater Deliberation, Civility and Knowledge of Policy through Issue Debates
Name: Morgan Marietta, Assistant Professor
Department: Political Science
Course: Intro to American Politics, Intro to International Relations, Intro to Comparative Politics

2015-2016

Title: Using Case Study Technology (ForClass)
Name:Thomas Sloan, Associate Professor
Department: Operations and Information Systems (OIS)
Course: Global Supply Chain Management

Title: Integrating Service Learning into College Writing
Name: Matthew Hurwitz, Lecturer
Department: English
Course: College Writing II

Title: Using Field Work at the MFA When Learning to Teach English
Name: John Brown, Lecturer
Department: Education
Course: Curriculum & Teaching: English

2014-2015

Title: Technology-guided chemical discovery in the undergraduate organic lab
Name: Jessica M. Garcia, Lecturer, and Khalilah G. Reddie, Lecturer
Department: Chemistry
Course: Organic Chemistry Laboratory for Chemistry Majors

Title: Conservation in an American Art Course
Name: Marie Frank, Associate Professor
Department: Cultural Studies
Course: American Art