For Robert Swanson, Ph.D., prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation are not the point of teaching at a liberal arts institution — the point is seeing students get excited about science […]
Category: Faculty
Getting Into The Habitat
Biology professor Laurie Eberhard has found that students become more excited about learning when field projects serve communities […]
Helping Students Make an Impact
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Fostering Students’ Success
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Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo in Involve, a Journal of Mathematics
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo co-authored a paper titled “Challenges in promoting undergraduate research in the mathematical sciences” in the May 2014 issue of Involve, a Journal of Mathematics. The special issue serves as the proceedings for the 2012 Trends in Undergraduate Research in the Mathematical Sciences conference. […]
Freedom to Blaze New Trails
“At Valpo, we don’t push students to follow the path that we set out. We encourage students to find their own path and learn in a way that is meaningful to them.” […]
Name a Field, Solve a Problem
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Giving It Some Thought
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The World in Perspective
“Effective use of GIS technology requires more than programming,” says Professor Bharath Ganesh Babu. “It takes a geographer’s perspective.” […]
A Complicated, Exciting Universe
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