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Search All VideosJennifer Birkeland discusses her use of Google cardboard virtual reality viewers to explore landscapes after the pandemic quarantine began in Spring 2020.
Steven Strogatz talks about how he began building community with his students on the first day of class in Fall 2020 during the pandemic.
Beth McKinney talks about using live captioning in PowerPoint as a way to help students engage with material and as a way to explore diversity and inclusion in her nutrition classes.
Jennifer Birkeland, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, used the award to develop a course in which students would use biosensors to understand how individuals interacted with environments. The students then used those data to design new virtual environments to explore or evoke emotions. Because of the shift to remote teaching in Spring 2020, Birkeland had students explore their own emotions around the pandemic through virtual spaces they created.
Darlene Campbell and Andrew St. James used their grant to incorporate the Organon 3D software into their anatomy class to help students explore tissues and processes that cannot be investigated through ordinary dissection.
David Deitcher and Bruce Johnson, together with James Ryan, professor of biology at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, used their innovation grant to develop an inexpensive microscope that would allow them to see neurons in action.
Through their Innovation grant, Peter Hitchcock and Mark Wysocki incorporated Jupyter Notebooks into their Atmospheric Dynamics course. The Jupyter Notebook is an app that allows students to use real forecast data in visualizations, and manipulate those data to explore the impact on forecast flows.
Trevor Pinch and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri were awarded a grant to develop a class in which students create an instrument and use it to explore aspects of sound and performance. As the move to remote learning during the pandemic limited access to materials and workshop tools, Pinch & Papalexandri-Alexandri asked students to be creative and use their own living spaces and materials they had on hand to complete the assignment.
Michelle K. Smith used an innovation award to continue faculty learning communities for STEM gateway course instructors. She was able to hire Claire L. Meaders, now assistant professor of biology at University of California, San Diego, as a postdoctoral associate to extend a pilot they had run in 2018-2019 to add additional faculty and different courses.
Courtney Roby, associate professor of Classics, and Andrew Hicks, associate professor of music, used their award to create new tools to assist in making their team-taught course "The Art of Math" more active and engaging for their diverse group of students.
Andrea Won, Assistant Professor, and Connie Yuan, Professor, both in Communication, used virtual reality to help teach students intercultural competence.
Mark Sarvary, senior lecturer in Neurobiology & Behavior, developed a new learning space, the "bio-imagination maker-space," with the investigative biology teaching laboratories.
