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Whiteness: An Ethnographic Question
Awardee will use an ethnographic lens to spark an interdisciplinary and intergenerational conversation on the role of whiteness in research, pedagogy, and institutional life. -
Development of Student-run Podcasts as an Innovative Learning and Communication Tool
Awardees will develop training workshops to teach students to communicate technical knowledge to broader audiences through podcasting. -
The Video Essay as a Learning Tool in Field Based Courses and Design Courses
Awardees will explore the video essay as an integrative teaching tool in field-based and design-oriented courses. -
“Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking
Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making. -
The Diversity Journal Club
Awardee will pilot a Diversity Journal Club (DJC) to understand how diversity issues impact learning, teaching, research, and culture in the science community. -
Project Nights and open-ended design research
Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning. -
Evaluating methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking: A mixed methods study of faculty and students across Harvard University
Awardees will conduct a mixed methods study analyzing the teaching and learning of critical thinking skills at Harvard—the differences in approaches across Schools, and faculty and student perceptions of critical thinking instruction and assessment. -
Bridging the gap between statistics courses and practice
Awardee bridged the gap between statistics courses and students’ ability to implement concepts in their own work with a student-run consulting service to be permanently housed in the Biostatistics Department. -
Revision history analytics in service of analyzing the writing process
Awardees analyzed revision patterns in student writing, how they relate to activities within specific passages of a written text, and how revision-history analytics can play a role in supporting teaching and improvement in writing skills. -
A Pilot in mathematics enrichment to increase pathways to STEM
Awardee implemented a large-scale version of a successful pilot “book club” aimed at lower level math students to create an environment to practice and experiment with advanced concepts.
