Twelve BUSPH Faculty Awarded Excellence in Teaching Honors for Spring 2012.
The BUSPH Education Committee is honoring the achievements of 12 faculty who received an Award for Excellence in Teaching for Spring 2012.
Recipients are selected by the Teaching Awards Selection Sub-Committee which is comprised of faculty from each department. The Sub-Committee’s selection is based on a review of the overall course evaluations, including instructor ratings and student comments. Included below are comments from student evaluations of the courses.
Once again, our students are very satisfied with their experiences in the classroom. They are appreciative of faculty efforts to incorporate different techniques to promote learning, to include timely topics, to engage them in exciting discussions, and to provide them with opportunities to learn and master important skills.
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Michael LaValley Comment: “Very well-prepared instructor, who was very open to explaining subjects outside of class as well.” Comment: “Lectures explained why and how we used various methods, and then provided examples along with SAS code. The notes were incredibly comprehensive and will serve as an excellent resource in the future.” |
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Jonathan Levy Comment: “Strengths of this course were the real-life assignments, working with the MBTA and local community groups. Getting that sort of experience working with different people is invaluable, I believe, because it’s so true to what you may be doing later in life.” Comment: “Jon’s feedback on written assignments and presentations was incredibly thorough and very prompt. I’ve never had a professor respond as thoroughly as he does.” |
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Kim Shea Comment: “Incredible instructor, easily the best I’ve had at BUSPH. Clearly is an expert in the subject matter, and is able to relate to students very well.” Comment: “Probably the one of the best professors I had at BUSPH. Very smart, good at setting up class discussion on topics. More classes should be structured like hers. I learned a lot in just half a semester.” |
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Natasha Hochberg and Susan Brogly Comment: “Dr. Hochberg and Dr. Brogly make an excellent team. The course was well paced and really interesting. There was a good distribution of homework assignments and workshops and the workshop exercises are a lot of fun. I had a great group, and we had some really excellent discussions during the semester.” |
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Joan Mansour Comment: “Dr. Joan fostered an atmosphere that made discussion and collaboration extremely easy. She took time to listen to each student in the class. That demonstrates a level of respect rarely seen in a person.” |
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Rich Feeley Comment: “Rich Feeley was an excellent instructor. The course is intense and extremely difficult, especially for those new to public health and consulting. Rich was always open to answering any questions, and no question was silly.” Comment: “A real strength of this course was having Rich Feeley as the instructor. He was able to provide the “ins and outs” of consulting and brought the personal experiences and stories to drive home concepts.” |
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Taryn Vian Comment: “Taryn is obviously committed to fighting corruption as shown in her vast experiences. This is what made her teaching the course so beneficial for me as a student to see real passion. It excites me to try to find my own niche!” Comment: “Taryn was outstanding. The best professor I’ve had in the program.” |
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Wendy Mariner Comment: “One of the best instructors at the SPH.” Comment: “Professor Mariner takes time to make sure that non-law or non-public health law students alike can understand an evolving and complicated subject.” |
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Leonard Glantz Comment: “Professor Glantz had an excellent understanding of course material and encouraged active participation and discussion. He challenged the students to push their thinking and challenge their preconceived notions about the topics at hand. The material was well organized and appropriate in depth.” |
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Lois McCloskey Comment: “Lois was fabulous. Reproductive health can be a difficult subject and Lois was always open and non-judgmental.” Comment: “Current issues were applied in this class to make material more realistic and applicable to real life.”
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David Lagasse Comment: “Professor Lagasse demonstrated considerable patience with the difference in students’ abilities to grasp the material. He was very approachable.” |
Each semester, the school’s teaching awards acknowledge the fine work of instructors of individual courses. But the Teaching Awards Committee encountered a special case as it considered Spring 2012 courses. The six sections of BS723 Introduction to Statistical Computing in Spring 2012 had an overall mean student evaluation of 4.5. Because the ratings for the individual sections were almost uniformly high, it was difficult to single out a particular instructor for an award.
Therefore, the Committee would like to congratulate and recognize the Biostatistics Department faculty who taught, developed, and coordinated both the six sections of BS723 Introduction to Statistical Computing in Spring 2012, and the syllabus, readings, and exercises they shared:
• Anita DeStefano, course coordinator
• Alisa Manning, A1 Section
• Sandeep Menon, B1 Section
• Nadia Solovieff, C1 Section
• Jacqui Milton, D1 Section
• Chunyu Liu and Harold Bae, E1 Section
• Jeanne Latourelle and Sean Lacey, F1 Section
The following faculty provided students with an excellent learning experience but were not eligible for teaching awards because they won in Spring 2011 for these same courses:
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BS722 |
Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials |
Susan Fish |
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EH713 |
Molecular Biology and Public Health |
David Sherr & Jennifer Schlezinger |
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IH755 |
Managing Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies |
Monica Onyango |
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IH773 |
Financial Management for International Health |
Taryn Vian |
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IH811 |
Applied Research Methods in International Health |
Mary Bachman DeSilva |
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MC762 |
Maternal and Child Health Policy Making |
Eugene Declercq |
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PH510 |
Introduction to Public Health |
Sophie Godley |
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PH853 |
Health Program Development and Management |
William DeJong |
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SB721 |
Social and Behavioral Sciences for Public Health |
Michael Siegel |
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SB751 |
Sexual Violence: Public Health Perspectives in Intervention and Prevention |
Emily Rothman |
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SB813 |
Web-based Health Communication Strategies for Public Health Interventions |
Marilyn Arnold |
The Education Committee would like to thank them for the time and effort they put into their courses.