PTF Impacts
Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.
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Applications of Data Science with City Datasets: Poster Session at UT Austin
On April 30, 2025, Guyot hosted a public poster session showcasing student projects focusing on datasets from the City of Austin Open Data Portal, held at the University of Texas at Austin. Projects ranged widely in focus, from environmental data to transportation and public safety, demonstrating the breadth of student inquiry and analysis.
Teaching as Well Being (UT System)
3 different PTF projects presented:
Loescher project focuses on: Elevate excellence in the classroom through new strategies to understand, measure, and improve rigor in all courses
•each class is designed and delivered with the expectation of students learning at high levels •each student demonstrates learning at high levels
•each student is supported so they can learn at high levels
View the poster here
City of Austin Data Meetup (online)
At the end of each semester, about 10 students volunteer to present their findings to the City of Austin employees during one of their regular data meetups.
Publishing in the Interdisciplinary Fields (UNT Dallas)
Dr. Chen presented PTF project insights on the topic of internships at the following venue:
Chen, W. (2024). Publishing in the Interdisciplinary fields. Invited Talk at the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of North Texas at Dallas.
Open Data Day (Austin Public Library) and Statistics Seminar (Texas State University)
Two presentations about promoting the use of a local open data portal for data science projects.
The first presentation was made with the collaboration of a former student/current UGCA at an event organized by Open Austin, which addresses local social and civic challenges through creative uses of technology.
The second presentation was made at the weekly statistics seminar at Texas State University with mostly professors in attendance.
Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering presentation and paper
“Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering: Qualitative Results from a Writing Center Program to Improve Engineering Undergraduate Writing,” Proceedings from IEEE ProComm, 2024. Pittsburgh, PA (July 14-17, 2024). I delivered this co-authored conference paper at the IEEE ProComm conference. See the link for the paper.
View the presentation slides here
For more information, you can access the article with the DOI: 10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00034.
An Internship Takes a Village & U.S.-China AI Race and Global Professionals (Texas Global)
Dr. Chen presented PTF project insights on the topic of internships at the following venue:
Chen, W. (2024). U.S.-China AI Race and Global Professionals. Panel on GPT Asia, Texas Global, UT Austin.
Engineering Sentences through the Texas Snowpocalypse: Results of a collaboration between a University Writing Center and an Engineering Writing Course (CCCC)
D'Arcy Randall gave a co-authored presentation about the program developed as part of her PTF Initiative at the Conference on College Composition and Communication on February 16, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois, themed "Doing Hope in Desperate Times." The presentation was part of a session featuring Writing Centers titled "Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations to Promote Transfer and Self-Efficacy," which was among hundreds of sessions of varied topics, formats, and scholarly approaches for over 1000 attendees.
Write from the Start in Engineering: Mixed-Methods Results of a Collaboration between a First-Year Biomedical Engineering Class and a University Writing Center (ASEE)
PTF D'Arcy Randall delivered a co-authored presentation at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 26, 2023.
Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project (International Communication Association)
Chen, W. et al., (2023). Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project. Paper presented at Media Sociology Postconference, International Communication Association, Toronto.
UT Austin Physics Departmental Colloquium
Vernita Gordon was a featured presenter at the UT Austin Physics Departmental Colloquium series on December 1, 2021. This series of events features physicists from within and outside of the University, and is open to all UT faculty, students, and staff. Gordon presented on her PTF Initiative, "Being Human in Physics."
Measuring the interplay of prior background with instructional method in a highly heterogeneous classroom: a case study (American Physical Society)
Vernita Gordon presented a paper at the 2021 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, an international-scope conference for physics scholars .... The paper was part of a session titled "Physics Education at All Stages,"
Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (College Composition and Communication Regional Conference)
D'Arcy Randall gave a virtual presentation about the pilot program developed as part of her PTF Initiative at the College Composition and Communication Regional Conference at the University of Southern California on Dec. 19, 2020.
Things a Physicist Rarely Talks About (Grow PoLS)
On October 25-26, 2020, Rice University hosted the Grow PoLS Virtual Workshop: Growing Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for the Physics of Living Systems. The purpose of this PoLS (Physics of Living Systems) workshop was to grow the ecosystem of physics by recognizing the systemic barriers that exist in STEM fields at all education and career levels, by building alliances, and by sharing best practices to overcome these systemic barriers.
Improving Teaching Efficacy Through Performance Training (ISETL)
Former PTF chair Jen Moon co-presented at the International Society for Exploring Teaching & Learning (ISETL) Annual Conference in October 2019.
Explore the conference proceedings (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) or read the abstract below.