Month: February 2018

Top 10% Biological Sciences Instructors in Fall 2017

Heartiest congratulations to the following seven faculty members and one graduate student from the Biological Sciences Department who have been identified as one of only 96 campus-wide instructors who received an exceptional “Average of 7 dimensions” student evaluation scores during Fall 2017 semester. Their scores were in the top 10% of similarly sized sections university-wide that had at least a 50% response rate.

Provost Jacqueline Huntoon recently congratulated them for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching.

The following faculty received the recognition based on average of 7 elements of university-wide class size group with response rate of >50% on student evaluations of their lecture classes:

  • Dr. Stephen Techtmann, Assistant Professor (Nominated for teaching award, 2018)
  • Ms. Brigitte Morin, Lecturer (Nominated for teaching award, 2017 and 2018)
  • Ms. Karyn Fay, Professor of Practice (Winner of teaching award 2016)
  • Dr. Ebenezer Tumban, Assistant Professor (Nominated for teaching award, 2018)
  • Dr. Thomas Werner, Assistant Professor (Winner of teaching award in 2013)
  • Dr. John Durocher, Assistant Professor
  • Dr. Amy Marcarelli, Associate Professor (Nominated for teaching award, 2018)

The following instructor received recognition based on “average of 7 elements” of university-wide class size group with response rate of >50% on student evaluations of their classes:

  • Lukai Zhai, Graduate Student Instructor