PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING AT MISSOURI STATE
Teaching & Learning Grant Recipients
Congratulations 2024-2025 grant recipients
Teaching & Learning Grant recipients have undergone a rigorous competitive application
process, which includes proposal submission and a blind peer review. Recipients will
be implementing their proposed Scholarship of Teaching and Learning over the next
year with presentations of their scholarship to be completed within the next two years.
Learn more about the Teaching & Learning Grants.
College of Education
The Impact of Developing Teacher Inquiry through a Community of Practice
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From Classroom to Career: Bridging Pre-Service and In-Service Teaching
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McQueary College of Health & Human Services
Leadership and Professional Development Experience for Students: A Domestic Education
Abroad Project
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Using DISC Profiling to Enhance Student Learning: A SoTL Technique
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Previous Award Winners
Proposal to Increase Knowledge, Skill, and Confidence with GPS Technology Among Achaeology
Students by Elizabeth Sobel & Scott Worman
Management Accounting: Experiential Learning Strategies for Engagement, Recruiting,
and Retention by Kim Church & Kristen Thornton
Increasing Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Using a Prosocial Approach
by Dana Paliunas, Jordan Belisle, & Breanna Lee
Evaluating High-Impact Teaching Practices in Geography: The Tennessee Refugee Game
by Emily Frazier
Impact of 3D Printing on Experiential Learning of Master's Level Occupational Therapy
Students by Naomi Corro & Sapna Chokraborty
Assessing the Development of complex Cultural Competence among Students and its Relationship
to Diversity/Global Learning as a High-Impact Practice by Nicole West
The 2022-2023 Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Curriculum Innovation Grants provide funding of up to $4,000 to improve student learning
through high-impact (active learning) practices or inclusive teaching that emphasizes
diversity and multicultural perspectives. Curriculum Innovation awards are made through
a competitive application process.
Paul Ajuwon Counseling Leadership and Special Ed
Enhancing the specialized mathematics skills of teacher candidates in the Blindness
and Low Vision program
Ronda Entlicher-Stewart School of Nursing
3-D printed skins to enhance confidence of skin lesion removal by student nurse practitioners
Matt McKay Geography Geology and Planning
Co-applicant: Damon Bassett
Creating virtual reality worldscapes for training geologists
Julie Ravenscraft Accounting
Co-applicant: Kyle Goodin
Intro to Financial Accounting (ACC 201) innovation and student engagement Initiative
Marnie Watson Sociology and Anthropology
Co-applicants: Erin Kenny and Christina Ryder
Center for Ozark Poverty Research, virtual reality poverty immersion: A unique out-of-the-classroom
experience
Andrew Ward Physical Therapy
Co-applicants: Scott W. Wallentine and Kimberly Ennis
Musculoskeletal equipment enhanced learning
2021-2022 Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Mental Health First Aid
Brandon Aigner and Stacie Finley COE
Reading, Foundations, and Technology
Creating VR Content for Immersive Geoscience Courses
Matt McKay CNAS
Geography, Geology, and Planning
Bringing Novel Experiences and Experiments into Experimental Economics
Seeking Inclusive Excellence through Indigenous Histories of the Americas
John Gram and Julia Troche CHPA
History
Food Photography, Food Styling, and Set Design
Deborah Piland MCHHS
Biomedical Sciences
Using a Common Reading across an Elementary Education Graduate Program: Promoting
Equitable Practices to Transform Teachers' Classroom and School Communities
Mandy Benedict-Chambers COE
Childhood Education and Family Studies
Enhancement of Acute Airway Management and Endotracheal Intubation Skills in Physician
Assistant Students
Nathan Miracle MCHHS
Physician Assistant Studies
Integrating Trauma Informed Care into the Nursing Curriculum to Meet the Needs of
a Trauma Impacted World
Cindi Aurentz, Stephanie Nikbakht, Melissa Penkalski, Jeanie Skibiski, and Diane Smith MCHHS
Nursing
The 2020-2021 Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Technological Solutions for Improved Inclusion and Online Experiences for Field Trips
and Field Based Courses in Geoscience
Damon Bassett
Geography Geology and Planning
Enhancing Students’ Classroom Experience with Innovative Technology
Melissa Penkalski, Shelley Carter, and Ronda Entlicher-Stewart
School of Nursing
E-portfolios and Diversity Statements to Advance Diverse Perspectives and Encourage
High Impact Practices in the Writing Classroom
Lori Rogers and Judy Tarbox Department of English
Fostering Social Justice Practices in Spanish Upper-level Courses
Vanessa Rodriguez de la Vega
World Languages and Cultures
Incorporating Anti-racism into Undergraduate Methods and Statistics Courses in the
Social Sciences
Kyler Sherman-Wilkins
Sociology and Anthropology
The 2019-2020 Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Teaching Diagnostic Assessment Procedures via ZOOM Online Format to a Diverse Student
Population
Tamara Arthaud
Counseling, Leadership and Special Education
Simulated Patient Experience to Supplement Skill Development
Christian McCall and Tona Hetzler
Sports Medicine and Athletic Training
Enhanced Learning: Flipping Online Social Work Practice Courses
Amanda Keys and Michele Brown Social Work
Developing Cultural Competence in Technical and Professional Writing
Leslie Seawright English
Strengthening the Curriculum to Support the Online Program in Blindness and Low Vision
Paul Ajuwon Counseling, Leadership and Special Education
High-Impact Learning in Ancient History Instruction
Julia Troche History
Student Success and Learning Foundation Development in a Large-scale Introductory
Biomedical Sciences Course
