College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University

LAS Master Teachers

Recognizes outstanding achievement around a specific educational topic. A group (typically 4 to 6) LAS faculty members are selected.

2009-10 Topic: Will be announced at later date.

Master Teacher Classes
2008-09 - Experiential Learning
Jim Colbert, ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Jane Cox, ISU Theatre
Chad Gasta, world languages and cultures
Nicola Pohl, chemistry
Carol Vleck, ecology, evolution and organismal biology
David Vogel, psychology

2007-08 - Large Format Classes
Cinzia Cervato, geological and atmospheric sciences
Margaret Holmgren, philosophy and religious studies
Stephanie Madon, psychology
Craig Ogilvie, physics and astronomy
Amy Slagell, English
Kim Smith, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

2006-07 - Successful Innovations in Teaching
Dirk Dean, political science
Volker Hegelheimer, English
Aili Mu, world languages and cultures
John Nason, ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Heather Thompson, mathematics
Ken Windom, geological and atmospheric sciences

2005-06 - Graduate Teaching
Douglas Bonett, psychology and statistics
Carol Chapelle, English
Philip Dixon, statistics
Mark Gordon, chemistry
Jonathan Wendel, ecology, evolution and organismal biology

2004-05 - Connected Learning
Clifford Bergman, mathematics
William Gallus, geological and atmospheric sciences
Michael Mendelson, English
Jill Pruetz, anthropology
Mark Rectanus, foreign languages and literatures

2003-04 - Multicultural Instruction
Hector Avalos, philosophy and religious studies
J. Herman Blake, African-American Studies
Susan Cross, psychology
Jackie Litt, sociology
Lulu Rodriguez, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

2002-03 - Off-Campus Instruction
Warren Dolphin, genetics, development and cell biology
Kathy Leonard, foreign languages and literatures
Margaret Mook, foreign languages and literatures
Stephen Pett, English
William Simpkins, geological and atmospheric sciences

2001-02 - Undergraduate Research
Paul Canfield, physics and astronomy
Jeffrey Prater, music
Valerie Sheares, chemistry
David Wallace, English

2000-01 - Technology in the Classroom
Rebecca Burnett, English
Tom Ingebritsen, genetics, development and cell biology
Steffen Schmidt, political science
W. Robert Stephenson, statistics
David Stuart, music
Douglas Yarger, geological and atmospheric sciences

1999-2000 - Large Lecture Classrooms
Jim Colbert, ecology, evolution and organismal biology
Steve Kawaler, physics and astronomy
Wolfgang Kliemann, mathematics
Barbara Mack, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
Ron Peters, psychology