LAMP Fellows Program
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Applications for the 2027-2028 Summer Institute are now live! Please contact Rachel Watson at rwatson@uwyo.edu with any questions.
Summer Institute and Yearlong Training on Active Learning
The LAMP Fellows Program is an incentivized, immersive year-long faculty development opportunity sponsored by the Science Initiative's Learning Actively Mentoring Program (LAMP) designed to facilitate teachers with incorporating active learning techniques and methods into their STEM curricula. Upon completing the Science Initiative’s Summer Institute, educators will be able to:
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Implement active learning techniques ranging from snowball to problem-based learning.
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Write a teaching philosophy that reflects their values, goals, pedagogy, and assessment. LAMP fellows self-assess and LAMP mentors assess growth on philosophies using a rubric that Rachel Watson and Ed Nuhfer developed.
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Present student learning outcomes and realize these outcomes with instruction and assessments that promote student engagement. These Fellows presented posters showcasing their mastery of these outcomes.
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Develop innovative curriculum using backwards design.
We invite you to dig into the assessment data showing that LAMP Fellows are mastering the outcomes. This poster, created for LAMP’s 10-year anniversary showcases the achievements of the 2023-2024 Class of LAMP Fellows. This assessment report [link to attached assessment report] celebrates 2025-2026 LAMP Fellow’s Mastery of LAMP Outcomes! Fellows posters are available in a digital archive!
For more information on the Science Initiative Summer Institute [SI]2 and yearlong training contact LAMP Director Rachel Watson (rwatson@uwyo.edu).
All UW faculty, UW PhD students, and Wyoming Community College faculty in STEM fields are welcome to apply.
To learn more about our LAMP Fellow Mentors, check out the Mentor Bio page!
Each semester, we feature a LAMP educator who is working to integrate active learning practices into their STEM teaching. Dr. Kui Chen is the fall 2024 featured LAMP Fellow!
Why should you be a part of the LAMP Summer Institute? See below (and click the image for a full-size PDF).
The Impact of LAMP Fellows
LAMP Fellows receive intensive, year-long training in active learning. They develop instructional strategies that are implemented in their classrooms, assess the impacts on student learning and develop a teaching philosophy statement. The Fellows program has had a large impact on instructors, courses and students at the University of Wyoming and at five of the Wyoming Community Colleges. Visualizations of these impacts can be seen on the Science Intitiative's main webpage.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.