Fellows Directory

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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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Matt Bowers

Current Fellow
Kinesiology and Health Education
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College of Education
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Interdisciplinary Learning

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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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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Katie Dawson

Alumni
Theatre and Dance
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College of Fine Arts
Initiative Focus
Interdisciplinary Learning

Project Title: Drama-Based Pedagogy: Refinement and Alignment for the University Context 

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Carol Delville

PTF Emeritus
Nursing
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School of Nursing
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Interdisciplinary Learning

My focus is advanced practice nursing (APRN) education using an active experience learning competency-based approach. Student engage in both clinical and community project to improve health outcomes. My Provost Fellow Project helps me to design and publish a clinical evaluation tool for our APRN programs.

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Jules Elkins

Current Fellow
Sustainability Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Interdisciplinary Learning

Dr. Elkins is the Director of Sustainability Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and the Environment. Dr. Elkins’ research and teaching is in environmental health, and healthy indoor environments. She is particularly interested in low-dose chemical exposures, especially during the period from preconception to early childhood. Her interests focus on how exposures can be practically and cost-effectively reduced or prevented based on evidence-based models of what interventions measurably work.

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Kristie J Loescher

Current Fellow
Management
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Assessment
Student Success

Dr. Loescher is a Professor of Instruction in the Management Department of the McCombs School of Business. Her professional and education background includes recognition as a Senior Certified Professional in human resources, as well as a Doctorate in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University. Prior to her career in academia, she earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan and worked in the healthcare industry for 15 years in the areas of quality assurance, utilization management, and clinical research.

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Cynthia LaBrake

Alumni
Molecular Biosciences
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College of Natural Sciences
Initiative Focus
Active Learning
Peer Education

Cynthia LaBrake is a former Chair of the Provost's Teaching Fellows. Cynthia was instrumental in the design and creation of the Provost's Teaching Fellows program, first as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and then as a member of the 2015 cohort of Teaching Fellows. She served as 2017 Chair. Cynthia's current interest is in serving the CNS as the Badging Fellow. In this role, she is leading the college effort to create sustainable structures for the development and awarding of badged micro credentials.

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Sanford Leeds

Alumni
Finance
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Peer Education
Skill-Building

Project Title: The McCombs Business Journal was an effort to give students an opportunity to read and write about research.  

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Karen M Landolt

Current Fellow
Computer Science
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College of Natural Sciences
McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Peer Education

Karen Landolt is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Business, Government and Society Department and in the Department of Computer Science. She teaches Business Law, Behavioral Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property Law, and Negotiations. Her courses have a service-learning component, allowing students to use real-life problems and tasks to increase cultural awareness, learning, and retention. She previously received a Course-developer Award (2020-2022) from the Provost Experiential-Learning Initiative.

 

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Luis Martins

Alumni
Management
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Skill-Building
Peer Education

Luis Martins is the Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship and the James B. Goodson Professor in Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Martins teaches courses on leadership and organizational behavior, innovation, entrepreneurship, and change management in the McCombs School’s full-time, professional, and executive MBA programs, and in its non-degree executive programs.

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Stephanie Seidel Holmsten

Alumni
Government
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Interdisciplinary Learning

Stephanie Seidel Holmsten is an associate professor of instruction in the College of Liberal Arts where she teaches core courses in the International Relations and Global Studies program, as well as Gender and Politics in the Government Department. Her teaching methods include global virtual exchange and team-based learning. She is Chair of the Provost Teaching Fellows, co-Director of the Brumley Next Generation Scholars Program, and Director of the Global Virtual Exchange faculty learning community. Her research explores minority women's election around the world.

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Carlos Torres-Verdín

Current Fellow
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Assessment
Improving Teaching and Learning

Carlos Torres-Verdín received a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. During 1991-1997, he held the position of Research Scientist with Schlumberger-Doll Research. From 1997-1999, he was Reservoir Specialist and Technology Champion with YPF (Buenos Aires, Argentina).