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Dr. Marie T. Ciavarella
Associate Director, LAS Teaching Academy
College of LAS
- 294 Lincoln Hall
- 702 S. Wright Street, MC-448
- Urbana, IL 61801
- Telephone: (217) 333-7202
- Email: Marie Ciavarella
- URL: www.las.uiuc.edu/faculty/services/academy/
Professor Jim Witte
Instructional Technology Specialist
College of LAS, Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences
- 210b Lincoln Hall
- 702 S. Wright Street, MC-460
- Urbana, IL 61801
- Telephone: (217) 333-2496
- Email: Jim Witte
- URL: http://www.atlas.uiuc.edu
Ms. Joellyn Pedro
Secretary, LAS Teaching Academy
College of LAS
- 294 Lincoln Hall
- 702 S. Wright Street, MC-448
- Urbana, IL 61801
- Telephone: (217) 333-1350
- Email: Joellyn Pedro
- URL: www.las.uiuc.edu/faculty/services/academy/
Dale Bauer, Faculty Fellow
Dale Bauer is Professor of English. She also serves as Chair of the University's Promotion and Tenure Committee. She has published three books, Feminist Dialogics, Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics, and Sex Expression and American Women Writers, in addition to three editions or collections, including The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Her focus on teaching has included essays on pedagogy, failure, and student resistance. She is the 2003 recipient of the Sturgill Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, and has also served on the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate.
Cara Finnegan, Faculty Fellow
Cara Finnegan is Associate Professor of Communication, with affiliate appointments in Art History, the Center for Writing Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies. She is the author of Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs (Smithsonian) and co-editor of Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture. From 1999-2009 she served as director of Oral and Written Communication, overseeing the university's hybrid composition/public speaking course for first-year students (CMN 111-112) and training and mentoring graduate teaching assistants. She is a past winner of the Dean's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Jeffrey Moore, Faculty Fellow
Jeff Moore is Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Part-Time Faculty Member of the Beckman Institute. His research is on the design and discovery of functional materials such as self-healing polymers. His teaching goals are to make organic chemistry a rewarding experience for every student in his course. Recently he has become intrigued with the possibility of providing high-quality, personalized instruction on the megastudent scale.
Helen Neville, Faculty Fellow
Helen A. Neville is a professor of Educational Psychology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the lead editor of the Handbook of African American Psychology and is a past Associate Editor of The Counseling Psychologist and of the Journal of Black Psychology. Helen has been recognized for her research, teaching, and mentoring efforts including receiving the American Psychological Association Graduate Students Kenneth and Mamie Clark Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Professional Development of Ethnic Minority Graduate Students and the Charles and Shirley Thomas Award for mentoring and contributions to African American students and community.
Bruce Reznick, Faculty Fellow
Bruce Reznick is Professor of Mathematics. His research has involved combinatorial problems with non-combinatorial objects such as polynomials, simplices and integer sequences. He has written more than 50 research papers and was a Sloan Fellow (1983-1986). He was a member of Caltech's 1st place team in the Putnam Competition (1971, 1972) and was on the committee which prepared the exam (1983, 1984, 1985). His teaching guide "Chalking It Up: Advice to a new TA" has been used in more than fifty graduate departments. He was a 2009 recipient of the LAS Dean's Award and the UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.