10 faculty members were honored with course transformation awards

Ten natural science faculty members in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded support for projects to improve teaching and learning strategies in their classrooms. The annual course transformation awards, given by Pitt’s discipline-based Science Education Research Center (dB-SERC), funded the following faculty in projects ranging from improving math education for chemists to incorporating more hands-on learning in environmental science classrooms: Kevin R. Binning, Walter P. Carson, Sungkyu Jung, Nancy Kaufmann, Kirill Kiselyov, Daniel Lambrecht, Lucas Mentch, David Nero, Eugene Wagner and Kyle Ann Whittinghill.