Provost Announces 2018 Teaching & Learning Grant Awardees

The Office of the Provost has announced the winners of the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Grants for 2018-2019.  Besides for announcing the winners for the fifth round of the Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery and the third round of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) grants, awardees for two new grants, the Start Small! Mini-Grants and the Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grants, were announced as well.

Start Small! Mini-Grants 

• Maria Abascal, Assistant Professor of Sociology
  Learning Experimental Methods Through Hands-On Data Collection
  Sociology
• Bill Bower, Special Lecturer in Population and Family Health
  Samantha Garbers, Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Game-Based Program Planning & Logic Model Learning Experience
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Logan Brenner, Lecturer in Discipline, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Ellen Crapster-Pregont, Lecturer in Discipline, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Development & Implementation of Brain and Behavior Case-Based Learning Experience to Enhance Scientific Habits of Mind in the Columbia College Core Curriculum
  Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Daniel Esposito, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
  Evaluation and Assessment Tools For a Course-Based Crowdsourcing Activity
  School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Alice Heicklen, Senior Lecturer, Biological Sciences
  Developing Probing Questions for Original Research Article Class Discussion
  Biological Sciences
• Denise Milstein, Lecturer in Discipline, Sociology
  Dispatches from the Field: Social Observation in Print 
  Sociology
• Amy Starecheski, Director of the Oral History Master of Arts Program
  Curating Oral Histories: Audience Engagement, Evaluation, and Student Learning
  Sociology
• Elsa Stéphan, Lecturer in Discipline, French
  Creative Use of Digital Tools in the Language Classroom
  French & Romance Philology

• Andres Bendesky, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  Deren Eaton, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  Principles and Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science
  Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
• Doru Cojoc, Lecturer in Discipline, International and Public Affairs
  Visualizing Theory Using Online Simulations
  School of International and Public Affairs
• Isobel Contento, Mary Swartz Rose Professor of Nutrition and Education
  Facilitating Students Learning the Processes of Effective Nutrition Through Blending the Fields of Nutrition Science, Psychology, Education and Communication
  Teachers College
• Wing Fu, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine (Physical Therapy) at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Developing Students’ Clinical Reasoning Through a Hybrid Doctoral Course With Low-Cost Patient Simulations
  Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Nikhar Gaikwad, Instructor in Political Science
  Video and Case Study Pedagogy in International Political Economy
  Political Science
• Vanessa Guida, Lecturer in Discipline, Undergraduate Writing
  Self-Directed Online Academic Writing Course for International Students
  English and Comparative Literature
• Kim Hekimian, Assistant Professor of Nutrition (in Pediatrics and in the Institute of Human Nutrition) at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Research Methods in Global Population Health
  Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy
  Simulating The Universe: Simulating Active Learning
  Astronomy
• Dana March, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Hybrid Learning for Quantitative Foundations
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Mary Ann Price, Lecturer in Discipline, Biological Sciences
  Improving the Implementation of Case Studies in Physiology
  Biological Sciences
• Sharon Schwartz, Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Epidemiology II: Going All the Way With Team-Based Learning
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Katherine Shear, Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work
  Redesigning “Introduction to Grief Therapy” with Interactive Videos
  School of Social Work

Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grants 

• Pam Cobrin, Co-Director of First-Year Seminar
  Laurie Postlewate, Co-Director of First-Year Seminar
  Wendy Schor-Haim, Director of First-Year Writing
  Cecelia Lie-Spahn, Associate Director of First-Year Writing
  Building and Sustaining Inclusive Pedagogies in First-Year Writing & First-Year Seminar at Barnard College
  Barnard College
• Ivana Nikolic Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
  Assessment to Document Student Learning in Frontiers of Science
  Chemistry
• Julie Kornfeld, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, Vice Dean for Education
  Transforming Public Health Education at Mailman Through Digital Learning
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Dustin Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences
  sTEAM Fellowship Program: A Team-based, Experiential Learning Research Program for Underrepresented Students
  Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  Biological Sciences
• Dana Wolf, Associate Professor of Dental Medicine (Periodontics) at the Columbia University Medical Center
  Division of Periodontics: Online Faculty Calibration Tool
  College of Dental Medicine
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Visit the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning’s website to learn more about the teaching and learning grants and all the awardees from this and previous years: https://vptl.columbia.edu/request-for-proposals/