Fellows Directory

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Niveen AbiGhannam

Current Fellow
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering

Dr. Niveen AbiGhannam is a science communication researcher and educator whose work centers around the strategic and inclusive communication of technical knowledge. More specifically, her research seeks to understand individual, organizational, and social factors that can drive or hinder public engagement with STEM behaviors. She also examines the identities of publicly engaged scientists and engineers and the meanings that they associate with their engagement experiences. On the teaching front, Dr. AbiGhannam has taught Engineering Communication at UT since 2015.

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Amelia Acker

Current Fellow
Information
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School of Information
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Amelia Acker is an assistant professor in the School of Information where she directs the Critical Data Studies Lab. Amelia researches people who build and maintain archives, data technologies, and information infrastructure. Amelia's PTF project is SCiSCHOOL, a science fiction book club that brings graduate students together to discuss the ethics and social impacts of near and future information technologies in our daily lives.

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Renee Acosta

Alumni
Pharmacy
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College of Pharmacy
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign

Renee’ Acosta is a Clinical Professor in the Pharmacy Practice Division and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Pharmacy. Renee teaches extensively in the professional PharmD Program. Her primary instruction includes Nonprescription Pharmacotherapeutics and Self-Care I and II, and a UGS courses titled Self-Care and OTC Products. Her PTF project focused on the use of standardized patients in Objective Structured Clinical Exams(OSCEs).

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Lucy Atkinson

Current Fellow
Advertising and Public Relations
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Moody College of Communication
Initiative Focus
Undergraduate Research
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Hina Azam

Alumni
Middle Eastern Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Student Success
Skill-Building

Dr. Hina Azam teaches courses in Islamic Studies such as Islamic theology, Islamic law, the Qur'an, Qur'an interpretation, and Islamic feminism, as well as a course on comparative religions of the Middle East. Her research focuses on women/gender/sexuality in Islam, ethics, and pedagogy. She supervises or serves as reader for undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations across the University.

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Diane Bailey

Retired
Information
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School of Information
Initiative Focus
Graduate Student Education

Open any book on university teaching and you are sure to find thorough discussion of in-class techniques to engage and motivate students, to place learning squarely in their hands, and to get them collaborating with one another. Now look for the section on how to negotiate your courseload, market your under-enrolled elective, build up a largely stable repertoire of courses, or network in a new community to find industry folks and others who can help you with materials for and guest talks in your course.

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Matthew Balhoff

Alumni
Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Project-Based Learning

Matthew is a professor in the Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (PGE) Department. Matt’s work as a PTF includes a curriculum-wide design project that is presented to the students in their first petroleum engineering class, taught in the spring of their first year. In every PGE class they are assigned at least one homework assignment or project taken directly from the design project. The objective of this initiative is to use unique methods and tools to develop an integrated and synergistic program.

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Deborah Beck

Current Fellow
Classics
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Deborah Beck has won various awards for both teaching and research, including the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College and University Level from the Society for Classical Studies and a prize for Excellence in Faculty Teaching from the Gamma Sigma chapter of the national Classics undergraduate honors society Eta Sigma Phi (2019) and two Plumer Visiting Research Fellowships at St Anne’s College, Oxford (2017 and 2019). Her main research interest is ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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Tasha Beretvas

Alumni
Educational Psychology
Faculty Affairs
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College of Education
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Initiative Focus
Assessment

Tasha Beretvas is a professor in the Quantitative Methods program in the Department of Educational Psychology. She joined UT's faculty in 2000. Beretvas has served as the Quantitative Methods program chair and the College of Education's Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. She is currently the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. She is also a member of the board of directors for the college's Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and a faculty associate of UT's Population Research Center.

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Daniel Birkholz

Alumni
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Carl Blyth

Alumni
French and Italian
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College of Liberal Arts

Maura Borrego

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Student Success
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Matt Bowers

Current Fellow
Kinesiology and Health Education
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College of Education

Dr. Matt Bowers is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Sport Management at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies youth development in and through sports and has published research studies related to the impact of sport participation on creativity and the value of sandlot/unstructured sports for children. His work has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Wired, The Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal, SXSW, and the Aspen Institute’s Sport for All, Play For Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game.

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Brian Bremen

PTF Emeritus
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Graduate Student Education

Project Title: Graduate Student Training and Support in Lower-Division Literature Classes 

 

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Keith Brown

Alumni
Finance
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Peer Evaluation of Teaching

Project Title: Peer Evaluation of Teaching: Policy and Process 

 

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Keffrelyn Brown

Alumni
Curriculum & Instruction
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College of Education
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
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Erika Bsumek

Alumni
History
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Undergraduate Research

Bsumek is an Associate Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, a recipient of the Dad’s Teaching Award, the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, and she is currently a 2nd-year Provost’s Teaching Fellow. Her areas of research include Native American history, environmental history/studies, the history of the built environment, and the history of the U.S. West. Her current research explores the social and environmental history of the area surrounding Glen Canyon on the Utah/Arizona border from the 1840s to the present.

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Ruth Buskirk

Alumni
Biology
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College of Natural Sciences

Ruth Buskirk earned her A.B. at Earlham College, M.A. at Harvard University, and Ph.D. at the University of California at Davis. Her research on behavior and physiology includes work of orb-weaving spiders, dragonflies, baboons, and unusual animal behavior before earthquakes. She has taught biology courses at the University of Texas at Austin for over 25 years. She especially enjoys her family, music, and being outdoors in different places.

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Courtney Byrd

Alumni
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
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Moody College of Communication
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Skill-Building

As Founding Director of The University of Texas at Austin Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute, Courtney has unparalleled access to one of the largest and most diverse clinical populations of children and adults who stutter. Given the low incidence nature of this disorder, she feels a profound responsibility to share my unique access to the stuttering community with students, professors, and practicing clinicians across the globe. Her PTF initiative aims to do just that.

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Andrew Carlson

Retired
Theatre and Dance
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College of Fine Arts
Initiative Focus
Student Success
Skill-Building
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Ashley Castleberry

Current Fellow
Pharmacy
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College of Pharmacy
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Graduate Student Education

As a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice in the College of Pharmacy, Dr. Castleberry teaches first- and second-year pharmacy students cardiovascular physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology and coordinates the Pharmacy Practice Lab course. As Division Head of Pharmacy Practice, she leads a team of 20 faculty. She is passionate about assessment, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and faculty development.

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Stephanie Cawthon

Alumni
Educational Psychology
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College of Education
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
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Wenhong Chen

Current Fellow
Radio-Television-Film
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Moody College of Communication
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning

Dr. Wenhong Chen is an associate professor of media studies and sociology, the founding co-director of Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, and a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.  

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Julia Clarke

Alumni
Geological Sciences
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Jackson School of Geosciences
Initiative Focus
Undergraduate Research
Mentorship

 

 

Hands-on research experiences for undergraduates offer unique active-learning experiences with real-world questions. These experiences create communities and improve 4-year graduation rates. They may also help create a student body and alumni population that recognize the importance of the research mission of large R1 universities.

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Tanya Clement

Current Fellow
English
Information
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College of Liberal Arts
School of Information
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Digital Humanities

Tanya E Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in Digital Humanities (DH).