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2023 Leahy Award
2023 Leahy Award
Recipient: Jennifer Tudor, Department of Biology
Recipient: Jennifer Tudor, Department of Biology
“A Non-lecture Neurobiology Course to Evaluate Science Communication”
This award was established in memory of Patricia Leahy, a Physical Therapy faculty member at University of the Sciences (Usciences), to acknowledge faculty's innovative efforts to increase their students' learning. For almost a decade, an anonymous donor annually supported the Patricia Leahy InnOvations with Learning (OWL) award at USciences. In 2004 the donor established an endowment to continue this award in perpetuity. After a terrible accident, Patricia Leahy was our donor's physical therapist. He felt that Patricia Leahy was especially helpful to get him to walk again. Soon after that Patricia Leahy was unable to conquer her own personal tragedy. To memorialize a truly innovative teacher, our donor, Dr. Charles Gibley, supported the InnOvations with Learning award and it became the Patricia Leahy OWL award. To more accurately reflect the purpose of the award, the name was changed to the Patricia Leahy Award for Learning Innovations.
Faculty members' use of new instructional strategies typically require much planning time, a willingness to take risks, reflection on what is happening, and an ability to make changes when necessary. As the title implies, this award's emphasis is on innovations that increase student learning.
One of the original purposes of the award was to recognize faculty who are experimenting with their teaching and to provide a dissemination vehicle for their innovative idea. A higher goal of the award is to recognize faculty who are implementing large scale innovations, or ones with a great impact on student learning.
2023 Bright Idea Award
2023 Bright Idea Award
Recipients: Rebecca Munger, Brandon Garcia, Cathy Poon, Diane Quinn
Recipients: Rebecca Munger, Brandon Garcia, Cathy Poon, Diane Quinn
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Department of Pharmacy Practice
“Student Feedback Unscripted: Utilizing an External Collaborative Partnership to Advance Medical and Pharmacy Student Communication through a Virtual Interprofessional Education (IPE) Workshop”
This award is for bright, innovative ideas about how to teach better, both in traditional classes, online environments, and in experiential settings. Unlike the Leahy Award, this award can be for a small innovation such as a different type of peer evaluation or a new assignment. This award does not require that the effectiveness of the innovation be thoroughly assessed.
2023 Teaching Innovation Grants
2023 Teaching Innovation Grants
General Category Recipients: Dr. Nathaniel Bulthuis, Dr. Kristin Burr, Dr. Jonathan Fingerut, Dr. Kristi Grimes
General Category Recipients: Dr. Nathaniel Bulthuis, Dr. Kristin Burr, Dr. Jonathan Fingerut, Dr. Kristi Grimes
Collaborative Student Learning Category Recipients: Dr. Shaun Varrecchia, Dr. Woei-Nan Bair, Dr. Eric Folkins, Dr. Natalie Goldberg, Dr. Bethany Nolan, Dr. Bryan J O’Halloran, Dr. Eric S. Pelletier
Collaborative Student Learning Category Recipients: Dr. Shaun Varrecchia, Dr. Woei-Nan Bair, Dr. Eric Folkins, Dr. Natalie Goldberg, Dr. Bethany Nolan, Dr. Bryan J O’Halloran, Dr. Eric S. Pelletier
The grants were first established in 2019 and support the development of new and innovative pedagogical methods at the classroom and program levels. There will be up to three General Category and up to four Collaborative Student Learning Category.
2023 Adjunct Teaching Awards
2023 Adjunct Teaching Awards
Recipients: Jamie Rassin, Special Education
Recipients: Jamie Rassin, Special Education
Jarrett Hurms, Decision and System Sciences
This award recognizes the outstanding contributions of our adjunct faculty to teaching and learning at our university. It aims to honor adjuncts who have demonstrated innovative teaching practices, including but not limited to inclusive teaching pedagogies or online teaching approaches, and a commitment to student and program success. These adjunct faculty were nominated by their department chair and selected by their dean.
2023 Best Open-Access Teaching and Learning Article Award
Recipients: Sarah Corcoran and Emily Bubel
Recipients: Sarah Corcoran and Emily Bubel
"A Process Framework for the Education-Focused Capstone:
Supporting Expansion and Sustainable Outcomes"
This award is for articles that demonstrate innovation in teaching and learning with high qualities of: systematic literature or integrative review, primary research assessing innovative teaching and learning components, processes or outcomes, primary research establishing best practices; quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. The article also. supports the mission of the Office of Teaching and Learning and at least one author of the article is a current Saint Joseph’s University full time faculty member.
This award is for articles that demonstrate innovation in teaching and learning with high qualities of: systematic literature or integrative review, primary research assessing innovative teaching and learning components, processes or outcomes, primary research establishing best practices; quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. The article also. supports the mission of the Office of Teaching and Learning and at least one author of the article is a current Saint Joseph’s University full time faculty member.
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