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Eagle Teaching Excellence Award winners Two CLS faculty members were selected for the 2016 Eagle Teaching Excellence Award, previously called the Provost’s Teaching Award. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, with nominations coming directly from students.
BIANCA BASTEN, PSYCHOLOGY Years at UWL: 7 Teaches: Primarily research methods courses including: Experimental Psychology, Advanced Research Methods, Psychology Measurement, Cognitive Psychology and occasionally Introduction to Psychology. She just started teaching Honors Seminar. History: Earned a doctoral degree from Washington Univer-
sity in St. Louis in 2009. Prior to teaching at UWL, she taught classes at Washington University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Originally from Germany, she has lived in the U.S. for 16 years.
go from being uncertain to confidently and proudly presenting their final research projects makes me happy every semester.”
Favorite part of teaching: “[I enjoy] seeing students excited about material they didn’t think could be exciting. Research methods courses often scare students. But, watching them
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