For the second year the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School have piloted a CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellows Program. The program is modeled after the very successful CTE-Lilly Fellows program for faculty, which has been in existence for nearly two decades, and provides an opportunity for graduate students from across campus to meet regularly during the academic year to discuss and address pedagogical and educational issues in undergraduate teaching as at the University of Maryland.

This fall eight senior graduate students, each with at least two years of teaching experience, were selected through a highly competitive application process to be the very first CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellows. The selected fellows will receive a stipend and are expected to develop a sustained conversation about teaching and learning and together construct and implement a project, initiative or event relevant to the improvement of the educational culture at the University of Maryland.

The Graduate School and the Center for Teaching Excellence are pleased to announce the 2009-2010 CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellows:

Kevin Barry, Biology

Bryna Clover, Chemistry

Leonard Demoranville, Chemistry

Tom Geary, English

Rebecca Krefting, American Studies

Yi-Tak Lai, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Jeff Olimpo, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Ana Perez, Women's Studies