Past Recipients - Teaching Innovation Grant

TIG Recipients 2023-2025

Fiscal Year Grant First Name Last Name Unit Division Event / Project Coapplicants
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Kristen Vu SIH CHP Advanced Eclipse Treatment Planning Licenses Bethany Marshall (CHP), Kirk Luca (CHP)
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Farid Jafari EGR PCE Integrating High-Speed Imaging in Engineering Courses Sanjivan Manohara (PCE), Mahdi Norouzi (PCE)
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Meghan Fox PT CHP Enhancing Orthopedic Skills Across Disciplines: A Multidisciplinary Approach Utilizing Simulators for Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, and Physician Assistant Education Jeffrey Paschall (CHP, Nicholus Kopacki (CHP)
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Byron DeVries COC Development and Use of a Large-Scale LED Display for Visualization Erik Fredericks (COC), Ira Woodring (COC)
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Haixia Liu SIS COIS Enhancing Intercultural Communication Learning with Virtual Reality: The Meta Quest Experience NA
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Joel Schut MUS CLAS GVSU Symphony Artists in Residence: Conducting Artistry and Historical Performance Violin NA
2025 Teaching Innovation Grant Meghan Cai MLL CLAS Cultivating Mindfulness through the Chinese Tea Ceremony NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Dianne Slager NUR KCON Reimagining Nurse Practitioner Competency Evaluation with Core Entrustable Professional Activities NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Jennifer Marson SCCJLS CECI Restorative Practices: Educating Law Enforcement NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Jakia Marie SIS COIS Experiencing the Cape Coast Castle and the Assin Manso Last Bath NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Brian Krug EGR PCE Garnering engineering interest and project-based learning using a real-time interactive microontroller model Chirag Parikh (PCE), Nabeeh Kandalaft (PCE)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Ryan Krauss EGR PCE An Open-Source Robot to Deepen Student Learning NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Joel Potrykus VMA CLAS Arriflex SR3 for Advanced Filmmaking NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Figen Mekik GEO CLAS Learning to Solve Quantitative Word Problems in Online Asynchronous General Education Courses NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Denise Goerisch SIS COIS Changing the Student Debt Landscape Symposium Heather Moody (CLAS), Brian Deyo (CLAS)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Chelsea Duball BIO CLAS Digging deeper with soil judging: A unique active learning and research experience NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Sookkyung Cho MUS CLAS Community Engagement Project Letitia Jap (CLAS), Abigail Walsh (CLAS)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Jing Chen PSY CLAS Expending Intergenerational Engagements Between GVSU Students and Older Adults From Our Communities NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Suzanne Zack VMA CLAS Pathway to Professions Durwin Talon (CLAS), Guin Thompson (CLAS)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Mark Williams MUS CLAS Guest Composer Residency Kevin Tutt (CLAS)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Jenny Baweja SIH CHP Level 1-Articulate230 Software NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Erin Carrier CIS PCE Evaluation of PrairieLearn Assessment Tool Zachary Kurmas (PCE), Alexander Lalejini (PCE)
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Eric Covey HST CLAS Hands off Africa! Pan-Africanism, Decolonization, and the All African People's Conference, 1958. NA
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Philip Hittepole EGR PCE GVSU SoE First-Year Lab Hardware Sorter and Dispenser Na
2024 Teaching Innovation Grant Alexandra Locher BIO CLAS Expanding Geospatial Technologies at GVSU: Use and application of imagery collected from drones Rob Larson (CLAS), Paul Keenlance (CLAS)

Featured TIGs

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Sookkyung Cho, Music

A video about how students at GVSU engaged with the community to teach students how to lead

Community Engagement Music Project

Finding their 'why' as musicians 

Suzanne Zack, Film & Video Production

GVSU students explore careers in Los Angeles during their 2024 Spring Break.



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