Promoting Intellectual Engagement (PIE) Award - 2011 Recipients

This award honors instructors who inspire excitement, inquiry, and autonomy in first-year courses.  Recipients of the PIE Award are nominated on-line by sophomore students, and then selected by a committee based on thoughtfulness and volume of student nominations.  Student's descriptions of nominees reveal the heart of excellence in lower-division instruction, courses that comprise the foundation of students' college experience and the crucial seed of intellectual self-awareness.
 
Recipients will be honored at a reception Thursday, April 16th.  The PIE Award is co-sponsored by Ellbogen CTL, LeaRN, Residence Life & Dining, and Center for Advising and Career Services.  The purpose of the PIE award is to increase the focus on instructors who teach first-year students.  

	Jan Benson Accounting			Courtney Carlson Honors Program/ Environment & Natural Resources
	Scott Culhane Criminal Justice			Levi Davis Statistics
	Bill Downs Theatre & Dance			Brent Ewers Botany
	Tyler Fall Honor's Program			Dru Farro Honors Program
	Scott Freng Pscyhology			Patricia Goodson Chemistry
	Matt Gray Pscyhology			Chris Greaser Modern & Classical Languages
	Karl Heimbuck Mathematics			Edward Janak Educational Studies
	Tricia Johnson Elementary & Early Childhood Education			Mark Lyford Botany
	Diane Panozzo Honor's Program			Ron Pedersen Accounting
	Nicole Quackenbush English			Phil Roberts History
	Leslie Rush Secondary Education			Tim Rush Elementary & Early Childhood Education
	Shelby Shadwell Art			Alexandre Skiba Economics & Finance
	John Spitler Mathematics			Justin Stewart Communication & Journalism
	Rachel Watson Microbiology			Roberta Webster Geography
	Katrina Zook Music