Alondra Concepcion-Gonzalez, Mady Eori, Claire Esielionis, Sophia Holmes, Ambika Manhapra, and Sarah Ziobro Receive the Outstanding Learning Assistant Award
The Biology Department recognized the wonderful efforts of all of our Learning Assistants (LAs) by presenting “The Outstanding Learning Assistant Award” to the group of LAs who presented a poster that was judged by the Biology Honors Committee to best outline procedures that will improve teaching in our undergraduate laboratories. Financial support for this award was made possible by Professor Emerita Elizabeth Godrick.
Top award:
Alondra Concepcion-Gonzalez, Mady Eori, Claire Esielionis, Sophia Holmes, Ambika Manhapra, and Sarah Ziobro, for their poster titled “Implementing an Interactive and Dialogic Learning Environment for BI107 Lab”. The group developed a hands-on interactive lab which investigates fish species diversity in the Charles River and measures water quality in the river. Students will be able to walk five minutes to the Charles, take samples from the river, and return to the lab to analyze the data.
A close runner-up:
Andres Amaya, Ian Chin, and Natalie Stamatiadis for their poster titled “Systems Physiology Lab Final Review”. They developed exercises to help students prepare for the BI315 final. They gathered data to determine the effectiveness of their review and presented histograms showing how effective the students felt the review was for them. They implemented the review exercise with about 50 students.