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The head and torso of Niveen AbiGhannam, a woman with brown and blonde hair, smiling in a black dress.

Niveen AbiGhannam

Current Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Cockrell School of Engineering
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Institutional Resource

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.

Deborah Beck smiling, with grey hair split down the middle and wearing an orange top, against a grey background.

Deborah Beck

Alumni
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.

Elon Lang, wearing a vertically blue-striped shirt, smiles while leaning against a red pole.

Elon Lang

Current Fellow
Liberal Arts Honors and Humanities Programs
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum (Re)design
Faculty Communication
Improving Teaching and Learning
Institutional Resource

Elon Lang is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches a variety of undergraduate literature survey courses on ethical topics, medieval and early modern studies, dramatic literature, and Experiential Learning courses based in archival research. One example was his 2020-2021 courses called Archival Advocacy in which students learned how to bring archival techniques to bear on a real-world social justice issue facing the East Austin, Texas, community: the closing of one of Austin's historically Hispanic elementary schools.

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Jonathan Perry

Current Fellow
Physics
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College of Natural Sciences
Initiative Focus
Improving Teaching and Learning
Institutional Resource

Jonathan Perry is a Texas native who, after completing his BA and MS in physics at Baylor University and his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, has managed to stick around the state. For his doctoral work he found himself with an unexpected passion for teaching and learning in his field, and so he focused on physics education research. He joined the faculty at UT Austin in 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Instruction.