Bonnie Dixon's major focus in chemistry education is making a more meaningful experience in large lecture classes. She has used many techniques to change the impersonal nature of the large classroom auditorium into a student-centered learning environment where everyone s input is welcome. With learning as the central focus in the course, she has worked on developing proper assessment tools with colleagues in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to measure student learning in the introductory chemistry courses.

Edgar Moctezuma,
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

As a Lilly-CTE Fellow, I would like to learn new techniques to improve my teaching, specifically in the area of teaching science to non-science majors. I would also like to network with other instructors and researchers in campus and around the nation, and explore new ways to teach biology and use plants as tools for teaching many science concepts. I would also like to participate in programs that help train high school and middle school science teachers in the area.

Karen Patterson,
University Libraries

Karen Patterson’s major interests are teacher development, communication and instructional design of curricula. One of the most frustrating experiences in the classroom is when the teacher walks away saying “that did not go as I expected” or “I lost the students ….” As a past frustrated high school teacher, she walked away with one question on her mind “What do I need to do to be a better teacher?” With a Masters in Library Science, librarianship provided the opportunity to teach instructional sessions on library resources, but she is still seeking the answer to her question. The

Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellowship will enable her to discuss teaching techniques and ideas with other colleagues. It will provide a learning environment in the areas of instructional design and communication. She will be encouraged to create an innovative classroom environment that will engage the students. She will be closer to uttering the words “I am a better teacher”.

Yelena Luckert,
University Libraries

As a subject librarian for History, Jewish, Slavic and Women’s Studies I assist departments in teaching their students library research skills. As our environment, capabilities and informational needs are rapidly changing, creating many opportunities and challenges, I would like to keep current and helpful to those who come to my instructional classes. One way to do this is through constant communication and partnerships between the teaching faculty and librarians. The Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellowships is one of the venues through which such discussions could lead to interesting and functional results.

Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura,
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Broadly speaking, my research interests lie in the area of linguistic pragmatics (the use of language in context), and more specifically in the way in which speech acts (such as requests, offers, inquiries, and suggestions) in Japanese reflect the specifics of various interactional contexts. The field of pragmatics is an extremely rich area for Japanese linguistic research because the Japanese language grammatically encodes elements of context such as social  distance  between  speakers, hierarchical

relationships, gender, and ideological stance. My interests as an educator stem from this research, in that I strive to convey to students the wide variety of linguistic resources available in the language to express situational variables. By taking a performance-oriented approach in my teaching, I encourage students not merely to learn about Japanese language and culture, but more importantly to learn to actively speak and write the language in contextually appropriate ways so that they can enter into and maintain relationships with Japanese both here and abroad.

Strauch is a faculty member in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the College of Arts and Humanities and an affiliate faculty member in Women's Studies and Jewish Studies. Her scholarly and teaching interests are in the areas of German medieval literature and cultural diversity. She is currently working on a book manuscript on "Views, Attitudes and the Social and Cultural Construction of ‘Old Age’ in German Medieval Literary Texts." She plans to spend her Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellowship year developing ways in which our campus can foster and institutionalize global learning opportunities for students that are intellectually stimulating and enriching and support the campus mission about global learning.