20 dB-SERC Leader Award winners announced 

Twenty faculty members in the natural sciences and economics departments in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences were recently awarded the Discipline-based Science Education Research (dB-SERC) Leader Award. 

This yearly award recognizes the contributions to the dB-SERC faculty learning community and their active participation in many dB-SERC events during the last academic year. These faculty members have played a key role in the dB-SERC weekly lunch discussions focusing on innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the natural sciences and disciplines with similar norms such as economics.  

The dB-SERC promotes and supports evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning in the natural sciences departments. In addition to workshops and special events, the dB-SERC faculty learning community gives the faculty members opportunity to share their course transformation projects involving evidence-based approaches which help everyone who is part of this community contemplate, adopt, and adapt scholarly approaches to teaching and learning.  

More information about dB-SERC can be found at http://dbserc.pitt.edu/ 

dB-SERC Leader Award Winners (2024-2025 year) 

  • Young Ahn, Biological Sciences 
  • Anusha Balangoda, Geology and Environmental Science 
  • Meghan Bechman, Biological Sciences 
  • Kristen Butela, Biological Sciences 
  • Seth Childers, Chemistry 
  • Melinda Ciccocioppo, Psychology 
  • Aimee Danley, Biological Sciences 
  • Robert Devaty, Physics and Astronomy  
  • Sean Garrett-Roe, Chemistry 
  • Sean Gess, Biological Sciences 
  • Burhan Gharaibeh, Biological Sciences 
  • Lingfeng (Kitty) Liu, Chemistry 
  • Tamika Madison, Chemistry 
  • Jeremiah Morgan, Mathematics 
  • David Nero, Physics and Astronomy 
  • David Outomuro, Biological Sciences 
  • Kevin Shaver, Economics 
  • Tim Tseng, Chemistry 
  • Daniel Wetzel, Biological Sciences 
  • Katherine Wolfe, Economics