Idea Exchanges and Dialogues with Award-Winning Faculty
Recipients of 2023/2024 Academic Awards discuss their experiences and lessons-learned with teaching and research at ECU.
| Date/Time | Session Title | Description | Links/Notes |
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| September 23 11:00 – 12:00 | Highlights and Reflections from Scholar Teachers: Jo Anne Balanay and Mostafa Namian | The ECU Scholar Teacher Award recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and/or creative activity with teaching. Join in to hear 2020/2024 Scholar Teacher award recipients share about how they weave these important faculty roles together, as well as provide a glimpse into their work. Jo Anne Balanay (Health Education & Promotion - HHP) - Jo Anne Balanay builds synergy between her research lab and field work, teaching, and student mentoring – all focused on reducing health hazards in occupational settings. She and her students have used environmental monitoring and analytical methods to assess the extent of worker exposure and employ various control measures to reduce health hazard exposures and associated health risks, leading to several co-authored journal articles and research proposals focused on industrial hygiene. Mostafa Namian (Construction Management - CET) - Mostafa Namian builds a clear alignment between his research and instructional goals. Both are blended in the classes he teachers through a passion for using relevant learning experiences and research around topics such as construction safety, technology, and human behavior. | Meeting Recording |
| October 29 10:00 – 11:00 | Highlights and Reflections from Scholar Teachers: Chandra Speight & Jennifer Wright McDougal | The ECU Scholar Teacher Award recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and/or creative activity with teaching. Join in to hear 2020/2024 Scholar Teacher award recipients share about how they weave these important faculty roles together, as well as provide a glimpse into their work. Jennifer Wright McDougal (Addictions & Rehabilitation Studies - CAHS ) – integration of teaching....clinical approaches...service-learning...and research....interprofessional collaboration.... to improve mental health service delivery through interprofessional collaboration and education. Chandra Speight (Advanced Nursing Practice and Education - CON) - Chandra Speight blends research and teaching through a passion for interventions aimed at reducing overdose death rates and opioid-related harm in the state of North Carolina. Her work is grounded in collaboration with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse graduate students, community partners, and colleagues. | Meeting Recording |
| January 28 9:30 – 10:30 | Highlights and Reflections from Scholar Teachers: Robert Hughes & Erika Johnson | The ECU Scholar Teacher Award recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and/or creative activity with teaching. Join in to hear 2020/2024 Scholar Teacher award recipients share about how they weave these important faculty roles together, as well as provide a glimpse into their work. Robert Hughes (Chemistry - THCAS) - Robert makes logical connections between teaching and research laboratory work with students. The two become intertwined through the transition of independent research projects into classroom-based activities and the production of new scientific knowledge from that classroom-based research involving student teams. This classroom to laboratory ‘feedback loop’ creates unique opportunities for students while sustaining research projects that might languish otherwise. Erika Johnson (School of Communication - CFAC) – Through hands-on learning and experience-building projects in media studies and digital media, Erika Johnson gives students the tools to bridge the classroom experience to their potential “next step” after graduation. | Register Here Join Here |
| February 10 12:00 – 1:00 | Reflections from Teaching Award Winning Faculty – Lunch Dialogue | Sometimes, it is nice to have an opportunity to hear ideas from colleagues and simply talk about teaching. Please join us for an interactive panel discussion with some of last year’s teaching award recipients. We will ask them to talk about their approaches to instructional decisions that we all tackle each semester in hopes that it sparks at least one great idea for you to try in your course. | Register Here Join Here |
| February 24 2:00 – 3:00 | Highlights and Reflections from Scholar Teachers: Greg Howard & Mark Newton | The ECU Scholar Teacher Award recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and/or creative activity with teaching. Join in to hear 2020/2024 Scholar Teacher award recipients share about how they weave these important faculty roles together, as well as provide a glimpse into their work. Greg Howard (Economics - THCAS) – Greg Howard collaborates with professionals in a variety of disciplines to integrate economic models into a broader research framework with the goal of tackling difficult environmental research questions. He brings this research into the classroom where students are shown the real-world applications of economic concepts through accessible examples and hands-on work with real data. Mark Newton (Math, Science, & Instructional Technology Education - COE) - Mark Newton utilizes Socioscientific Issues Instruction (SSI) techniques to leverage complex societal problems that involve both scientific knowledge and sociocultural considerations. He incorporates mixed reality technology and place-based experiences with preservice teachers to impact their learning as well as that of their future students. | Register Here Join Here |
| March 4 10:00 – 11:00 | Highlights and Reflections from Scholar Teachers: John Drake & Kirstin Squint | The ECU Scholar Teacher Award recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and/or creative activity with teaching. Join in to hear 2020/2024 Scholar Teacher award recipients share about how they weave these important faculty roles together, as well as provide a glimpse into their work. John Drake (Management Information Systems - COB) - In his courses in the Management Information Systems program, John Drake integrates a debiasing framework within the continuous improvement cycle for a Project Based Learning course to demonstrate how to improve decisions of students. Kirstin Squint (English - THCAS) - Kirstin Squint specializes in Native American and Indigenous literatures. She weaves scholarly and community-engaged research into her graduate and undergraduate classrooms and provides professional development and experiential learning opportunities by fostering connections with contemporary writers and scholars. | Register Here Join Here |
Link to previous Award-Winning Faculty and Scholar-Teacher Presentations