13 faculty members received leader awards from the Discipline-based Science Education Research Center

Thirteen faculty members in the natural sciences departments in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences were recently awarded the Discipline-based Science Education Research Center (dB-SERC) Leader Award. This yearly award recognizes and celebrates their valuable contributions to the dB-SERC faculty learning community and their active participation in many dB-SERC events during the last academic year.

These faculty members have played a key role in the dB-SERC weekly lunch discussions about innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the natural sciences. The dB-SERC promotes and supports evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning in the natural sciences departments at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to workshops and special events, the dB-SERC faculty learning community gives the faculty members opportunity to share their course transformation projects involving evidence-based approaches which helps everyone who is part of this community contemplate, adopt and adapt scholarly approaches to teaching and learning. The center strives to help Pitt be a national leader in evidence-based instruction in the natural sciences.

The 2017-18 winners are:

• Danielle Andrews-Brown, Geology and Environmental Science
• Meghan Bechman, Biological Sciences
• Sean Garrett-Roe, Chemistry
• Joe Grabowski, Chemistry
• Kirill Kiselyov, Biological Sciences
• Barbara Kucinski, Psychology
• Jim Mueller, Physics and Astronomy
• David Nero, Physics and Astronomy
• Kim Payne, Biological Sciences
• Welkin Pope, Biological Sciences
• Jackie Powell, Chemistry
• Katie Sinagoga, Biological Sciences
• Kyle Whitinghill, Geology and Environmental Science