Stearns Center launched Classroom Inquiry/Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) awards in Spring 2023 to offer small amounts of funding to support faculty and staff classroom-based research.
See the current call for Spring 2026 grant proposals here
2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Awardees
Michelle Lafrance, “Crafting in Rhetoric Courses” (2023-2024)
Wendi Manuel-Scott & Lauren Cattaneo, “Undisciplined: Practices that Connect and Sustain Liberatory Educators” (2023-2024)
Leslie Lacroix, “Critical Friends are the Best Friends: Leveraging the Practice of Self-Study to Enhance Undergraduate Students’ Writing Practices” (2024-2025)
Greta Herin, “Exam scores are not different for POGIL-taught topics than for active lecture in a lower level Anatomy and Physiology I and II sequence” (2024-2025)
2025 Awardees
Suzanne Gantar (PI) – College of Science (Biology) – Badge Board and the Gamification of Genetics
Seth Hudson (PI), College of Visual & Performing Arts (Game Design), Stephanie Grimm and David Lemmons (Mason Libraries) – Assessing Approaches to Transform Student Research-Paper ‘Research’ to Authentic Inquiry
William Franz Lamberti (PI), Sharmin Abdullah, Annie Hui, and Dominic White – College of Science (Computational & Data Sciences – Generative AI Use and Data Science Programming Learning Outcomes
Marybeth (MB) Mitcham (PI) and Megan Dubois – College of Public Health (Global & Community Health) – Bridging Theory and Practice in MPH Education
Sylvia Schreiner (PI) – College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Linguistics) – Hands-On Community Linguistics for Linguistics Students
Tawnya Azar (PI) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (English) – Student and Faculty Perspectives on Adapting Online Asynchronous Writing Instruction to Institutional Adoption of Generative AI Platform
Lauren Kuykendall (PI) – College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) – Educating for Self-Knowledge: Evaluating an Experiential Learning Approach
Christine Barthold (PI) and Lisa Tullo – College of Education & Human Development (Special Education) – Are we teaching behavior analysis using behavior analysis? A scoping review of the literature
Ariel Goldenthal (PI), Christina Greico, Shyam Patel, Colleen Reynolds, and Courtney Adams Wooten – College of Humanities and Social Sciences (English Composition) – Student Perceptions of Learning Experiences in Hybrid Writing Courses
Junghwa Kim (PI) – College of Humanities and Social Sciences (English) – Examining multilingual undergraduate students’ use of Generative AI tool, Chat GPT, on academic writing tasks in research writing projects