Summer Course Design Institute

Annagul Yaryyeva

I am a Graduate Assistant at the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (OIGP) at Purdue University. I work with the OIGP on social justice and inclusion program evaluation and research-based projects. Additionally, I assist the OIGP in the development of the Inclusive Excellence Graduate Certificate program.

At Purdue University I have taught the following courses:

• Anthropology 205: Human Cultural Diversity
• AMST 201: Interpreting America: Social Issues in Immigration
• AMST 301: Introduction to Asian American Studies

My research interests include but are not limited to:
Transnational Immigration, Social Justice, Community Engagement, Cosmopolitan Education, and Online Pedagogy.

Chanel Beebe

I am a fourth-year Ph.D Candidate in Engineering Education and a Master’s Student in Industrial Engineering. My work focuses on engineering within community settings and the many ways in which non-engineers engage in engineering thinking.

My teaching and facilitation experiences span formal and informal learning settings. I’ve co-taught freshmen engineering seminars and led week-long summer programs for high school students interested in engineering or design. I also have experience facilitating conversations on issues of equity and inclusion and provide research and consulting to groups within this arena.

More about me, my research and my work can be found at ChanelBeebe.com

Elise Lofgren

My current position as a Post-Doctoral Research associate is instructional design, development, and innovative educational techniques within graduate courses in the department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication. My current position is instructional design and development of graduate courses and assisting faculty with their instructional design needs. Although my BS and MS degrees are in animal science, it was during my MS that I shifted my interests onto educational experience and instructional design. While pursuing a PhD in Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication at Purdue University, I have accumulated a variety of teaching and instructional design experiences through teaching courses both face-to-face and online, as well as informal programs. I have also created educational materials for a variety of audiences, such as online modules, presentations, and infographics.

Franziska Lang

My name is Franziska K. Lang. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Chemical Education Division of Purdue’s Chemistry Department. Through this program I have been able to combine my passion for teaching science and my belief that we must support instructor development in order to create effective, evidence-based teaching environments where Purdue students can thrive. In my Ph.D. work, I have employed qualitative research methodology to investigate biochemistry instructors’ approaches to teaching and the challenges they face trying to implement evidence-based practices. It is only through dialogue between researchers and practitioners that we can understand the obstacles that instructors face and establish a fruitful foundation to promote student-centered learning in higher education.

I have taught a range of courses, including in chemistry, biology and professional development. Currently, I am the instructor for CHM695 “Teaching in Chemistry”. The goal of this course is to equip new chemistry graduate students with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet one of our key Boilermaker goals: excellence in teaching. My course helps students put education theory into practice, reflect on the development of their teaching, and establishes a platform to connect them with their community. Students also find support in advancing their teaching skills through the use of a peer observation system, which I developed and am now implementing for the first time in the Chemistry Department at Purdue.

With defending my Ph.D. this semester, I am looking forward to my next challenging endeavor. I hope that my next position will allow me to combine my passion for effective science communication with my experience training instructors in order to improve learning environments for students.CLOSE

Hyeseon Woo

I am a Ph.D candidate in History at Purdue University. My main teaching field is Korean modern history. However, I have covered East Asian modern history course. I taught the East Asian modern history course during the 2018 spring semester and focused on political, economic, and cultural aspects of the three countries: China, Japan, and Korea. I have also prepared course materials for two minor teaching fields: Chinese modern history and human rights history.

Currently, I work on my dissertation regarding Korean women under the authoritarian regime in the 1960s and 1970s. My argument is that the agency of the South Korean women was a social actor and cultural practitioner rather than a resister to the authoritarian government and the system. My dissertation project focuses on South Korean women’s agency at varied degrees of social class and geographic location. Their agency was inspired and mobilized by the gendered developmental state in order to achieve the economic growth of the modern-state and form a new modern woman identity as a citizen who willingly sacrificed themselves for the state and their families.

I-Fan Lin

I have been a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses at Purdue University for many years. I have served as a Lab Instructor advising and guiding students to develop skills in basic electric circuits and systems. I have also been in theoretical courses providing discussion and review sessions for students, to demonstrate an effective way to prepare for the exams and every project assignment.

This summer, I was an Instructor teaching “Probability.” I independently created course material to establish a solid background in probability and random processes. I like to interact with students and explain difficult concepts by using simple examples. I also love to give daily life examples combining current events such as FIFA World Cup in the probability questions. Therefore, students could know what binomial and geometric distribution is easily. In this way, students do not feel bored about the theoretical courses and was willing to learn actively. I made sample homework videos so that students could understand the concepts and some tricks in the problem anytime if they have time conflicts going to my office hours. I feel quite happy at the moment when students understood the concepts and knew how to solve the questions by my assistant. When students did well from struggling, I felt it was worthy. Students and I both grew and learned.

James Mollison

I am a doctoral candidate in Purdue’s philosophy department, where I also serve as a graduate instructor, and as academic program manager. When I’m not helping recruit and retain students in pursuit of the most fundamental and meaningful questions one can ask, teaching my own courses, or writing my dissertation, I act as the director of Purdue’s speech and debate team, the C. Richard Petticrew Forum.

I have taught several courses including environmental ethics, technology, engineering, and design ethics, and critical thinking. Over the summer, I also help run a philosophy-focused, 7-week-long debate institute at the University of Michigan.

My research interests primarily focus on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly as it relates to topics in contemporary discussions in ethics and metaethics.

Janna Ahrndt

I am a doctoral candidate in Purdue’s philosophy department, where I also serve as a graduate instructor, and as academic program manager. When I’m not helping recruit and retain students in pursuit of the most fundamental and meaningful questions one can ask, teaching my own courses, or writing my dissertation, I act as the director of Purdue’s speech and debate team, the C. Richard Petticrew Forum.

I have taught several courses including environmental ethics, technology, engineering, and design ethics, and critical thinking. Over the summer, I also help run a philosophy-focused, 7-week-long debate institute at the University of Michigan.

My research interests primarily focus on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly as it relates to topics in contemporary discussions in ethics and metaethics.

Katie Whitmore

My name is Katie Whitmore and I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. My research uses a life course approach to examine the health of individuals in the Nile Valley. I investigate diachronic shifts in health through analysis of human skeletal remains within the framework of life course, age, and disability/impairment theory. I have been a Teaching Assistant for a range of courses in Anthropology, including courses on human evolution, sex and gender, cultural anthropology. Additionally, I have taught courses on biological anthropology and human evolution and the archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia. I am extensively involved in educational outreach programs including working with and supervising the recipients of the Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Internship to create educational materials for schoolteachers and community members in Tombos, Sudan, where I conduct my dissertation research. Locally, I volunteer with local schools to discuss career opportunities in anthropology and in community events promoting archaeology education to people of all ages.

Kristin Villa

I graduated from Purdue University with a PharmD in 2010 and Master’s in 2014. My Master’s thesis was titled “Risk Attitudes and Characteristics of Student Pharmacists Across Cohorts,” which focused on personality characteristics of student pharmacists and the relationship between personality characteristics and the culture of pharmacy, our professional societal role, and adoption of innovative practice styles. I am currently working on my PhD at Purdue with a dissertation topic of “Consequences of 2014 Legislation on Controlled Substance Dispensing Patterns and Utilization of the Indiana Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Three-Year Review.” My research interests include the intersection of law, policy, and pharmacy practice. For the last two years, I have coordinated and taught the pharmacy law course in the College of Pharmacy and am currently developing an online version of this course across three colleges of pharmacy in Indiana. When not at Purdue working on my degree and teaching, I work as a pharmacist at Walgreens in West Lafayette, IN.

Tyler Gabbard

I am a fourth year PhD candidate (ABD) in Spanish Literature at Purdue University. My principle research areas include microrrelatos (flash fiction) and cognitive literary studies, as well as their intersection with the digital humanities. To that end, I perform empirical research and experiments as well as qualitative investigation in cognitive priming, perception, embodied cognition, theory of mind, conceptual blending, and the pro-social consequences of literacy. This research is applied to literary texts in 20th and 21st C. Spanish literature, from pre-dictatorship to the present; the influence that context has over the reader’s participation in fiction; graphic novels; and digital literature.