TEFD Announces 2017-18 Lilly Fellows

UMass Amherst: News Archive

The Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD) has announced the selection of the 2017-18 Lilly Fellows for Teaching Excellence.The eight fellows are:

Yuriy Brun, computer science

Caitlyn Butler, civil and environmental engineering

Patrick Flaherty, mathematics and statistics

Laura Furlan, English

Kirsten Leng, women, gender, sexuality studies

Paul Musgrave, political science

Traci Parker, Afro-American studies

Ceren Soylu, economics
The Lilly Fellowship is a competitive award program, established in 1986, that enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in a special yearlong collaboration.
The fellows attend bi-weekly seminars on teaching pedagogy, develop a new course or substantially redesign an existing one, assess their teaching and their students’ learning through classroom visits, work with mentors to anticipate many of the challenges and rewards of faculty life at UMass Amherst, and design a teaching-focused workshop or program to share the benefits of the Lilly Fellowship with colleagues at the department, school-college or campus level.
For more information about the Lilly Fellowship, contact Brian Baldi, bbaldi@umass.edu




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