Promoting Intellectual Engagement Award

LeaRN Program

Congratulations 2020 Award Recipients!

The Promoting Intellectual Engagement (PIE) 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 in September (tentatively).  The PIE Award is co-sponsored by LeaRN, Ellbogen CTL, Residence Life & Dining, and Advising, Career Services & Exploratory Studies.

• Anne Alexander - Provost Office
• David Anton - Mathematics & Statistics
• Brian Barber - Life Science Program
• Diana Baumbach - Visual & Literary Arts
• Michele Bird - Mathematics & Statistics
• Alyssa Canepa - English
• Joshua Clapp - Psychology
• Craig Douglas - Mathematics & Statistics
• Kent Drummond - English
• David Estes - Psychology
• David Finnoff - Economics
• Scott Freng - Psychology
• Fred Furtado - Mathematics & Statistics
• Lucus Hansen - LeaRN Programs
• Lori Howe - Honors College
• Shelby Hutson - LeaRN Programs
• Randa Jabbour - Plant Sciences
• Blake Johnson - Transfer Relations
• Alyssa Konesko - LeaRN Programs
• Allison Looby - Psychology
• Mariana Marvel - English
• Jeffrey Means - History
• Noah Miles - Modern & Classical Languages
• Matthew Painter - Criminal Justice & Sociology
• Mark Person - Modern & Classical Languages
• Tiger Robison - Music
• Joseph Russo - Education
• Joseph Schroer - School of Teacher Education
• Edward Sherline - Philosophy & Religious Studies
• Kenneth Sims - Geology & Geophysics
• Justin Stewart - Communication & Journalism
• Margaret Stewart - Communication & Journalism
• Zachary Taylor - Politics Public Affairs & International Studies
• John Willford - WWAMI Medical Education Program
• Man-Chung Yeung - Mathematics & Statistics