URSA announces 2023 Innovative Technology and Education awardees
The UAF Office of Undergraduate Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Scholarly Activity has recognized 15 people who received an URSA 2023 Innovative Technology and Education award. URSA's ITE awards fund up to $5,000 for technology-related equipment or software for student-based instruction and/or research.
Following are this year's recipients:
- Sydney Almgren, fisheries: e-gel power snap for essential gel electrophoresis analysis
- Leah Berman, mathematics and statistics: iPads for mathematics and statistics teaching and tutoring
- Carolyn Comiskey art: ergonomic lab stools
- Abhijit Dandekar, petroleum engineering: electronic drilling simulator
- Elaine Drew, anthropology: improving equity and inclusion in research methods training in medical anthropology
- Virginia Golsan, CTC: increasing student learning through guided reflection
- Montana Goss, SSS: Student Support Services media and technology loan program update
- Brendan Graham, Institute of Arctic Biology: The impact of wildfires on the vocal output of boreal bird communities
- Sarah Ellen Johnston, chemistry and biochemistry: A simple water quality probe for undergraduate research and education
- J. Jason Lazarus, communications and journalism: revitalizing COJO's student use lab
- Anna Medina, fisheries: Leica K3C camera and measurement software for image analysis
- Da-ka-xeen Mehner, art: digital imaging of artwork project
- Jamie Smith, art: drawing studio projector upgrade
- Christian Stettler, social work: the critical social worker
- Yin Zhang, petroleum engineering: CYDAR software to help undergraduate students learn fluids flow in porous medium
For more information, see the ITE award page on the URSA website.