Academic Programs Section Innovative Teaching Awards

The Board on Agriculture Assembly’s Academic Programs Section of the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities has awarded five Innovative Teaching Awards to five teams of faculty representing eleven institutions. The awards aid faculty focused on expanding their scholarship of teaching and learning by providing innovative teaching and learning experiences for students. The $2,000 awards are intended to support efforts to build and use collaborative relationships between faculty at different institutions that will take an innovative approach to teaching and learning in the food, agricultural, and natural resources sciences as well as serve as a base or pilot for future grant proposals. The awards also encourage partnership and mentoring between seasoned faculty and junior faculty.

The Board on Agriculture Assembly’s Academic Programs Section of the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities has awarded five Innovative Teaching Awards to five teams of faculty representing eleven institutions. The awards aid faculty focused on expanding their scholarship of teaching and learning by providing innovative teaching and learning experiences for students. The $2,000 awards are intended to support efforts to build and use collaborative relationships between faculty at different institutions that will take an innovative approach to teaching and learning in the food, agricultural, and natural resources sciences as well as serve as a base or pilot for future grant proposals. The awards also encourage partnership and mentoring between seasoned faculty and junior faculty.

Winners of the awards include the following teams of faculty:

• Foy Mills, Jr., Shyam Nair, and Art Wolfskill of Sam Houston State University, and Holly Bender, Andrew McCubbins, and Lisa Orgler of Iowa State University
• Catherine Shoulders of the University of Arkansas and Travis Park of North Carolina State University
• Abigail Borron, Jessica Holt, and Tudor Vlad of The University of Georgia, and Jamie Loizzo of the University of Nebraska
• Monika Oli of the University of Florida and Jennifer Lyles of Francis Marion University
• JeanMarie Hartman of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, David Bart of the University of Wisconsin, and Jennifer Momsen of North Dakota State University