Each year, the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning (CTRL) invites nominations for faculty who effectively integrate their research (scholarly, professional and creative activities) into their teaching. The award is designed to highlight exemplary faculty instructional practices involving individual students or groups of students in conducting original research as part of the classroom experience. Students participating in the research are engaged in some or all of the various aspects of literature review, study design, data gathering, analysis of findings, preparation of a study report, presentation of findings, and eventual publication, presentation or performance. An exemplary nomination would be one which includes evidence that students have resented a summary of findings at a research conference for undergraduate students or graduate students, or to a professional society or interest group.
Nominations from deans, faculty and students should describe how the nominee uses research to advantage with specific examples citing how students are beneficiaries of the classroom experience.
The winning professor will receive a $2,000 grant for research-related teaching materials. The winner will also make a campus presentation at a CTRL event demonstrating the use of research in the classroom.
Only one award will be made. To qualify, faculty must have either a full-time or part-time appointment during the academic year. Nominations may be made for a team of faculty who have brought their research to a course. The selection of the winner will be made by Directors of the CTRL plus two faculty members.
DEADLINE: October 2012
2011 Teaching with Research Award Winners - Kim Blankenship and Kiho Kim
The 2011 Teaching with Research Award was split between Professors Kim Blankenship (CAS, Department of Sociology) and Kiho Kim (CAS, Department of Environmental Science). Kim Blankenship was selected because of the extensive utilization of her HIV/AIDS research to connect the central themes of her class “Gender, Poverty, and Health.” Kiho Kim was selected because of his efforts to engage students in scientific research in all of his classes, both by using his own research findings as examples and by mentoring students through the research process.
2010 Teaching with Research Award Winner - Todd Eisenstadt
American University political science professor Todd Eisenstadt was the second recipient of the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning's Teaching with Research Award.
Eisenstadt was selected for the award for the research focus he provided students in his classes. In particular, the judges were impressed by Professor Eisenstadt's efforts to make his students' work go beyond the classroom and become grant proposals, conference papers, and in three cases, journal articles or articles in progress.
Professor Eisenstadt was one of 13 faculty who were nominated for the award. An Associate Professor of Political Science, Eisenstadt holds degrees from the University of California, San Diego and The Johns Hopkins University. He studies democratization, identity and social movements, public opinion, political parties, and election finance, principally in Latin America.
2009 Teaching with Research Award Winner - Kathleen Franz
American University history professor Kathleen Franz was the first recipient of the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning's Teaching with Research Award.
Franz's Public History Practicum aims to engage students in best practices for interpreting history in collaborative situations and public settings through praxis, or learning through doing. Every spring students team up with local and national cultural institutions in the DC area on a variety of public history projects.
Professor Franz was one of 21 faculty who were nominated for the prize which includes a $2,000 grant for research-related materials. An Associate Professor of History, Franz holds degrees in Museum Studies and American Civilization from Brown University. Her specialty is 20th Century US cultural history with a focus on popular culture and the history of technology. She regularly works with local and national cultural institutions.
