2022 Innovation in Education Award winners announced

The Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence has announced the winners of the Innovation in Education Awards.

The 2022 awards return after a one-year pause and recognize faculty for projects that enhance teaching at Pitt and foster new instructional approaches that represent advances over existing methods.

This year’s awardees are:

• Joanne Baird, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, for "Occupational Therapy Near-Peer Facilitation: Learning"
• Amy Bowser, School of Nursing, for "Development of Competency-based Performance Rubrics Assessing Undergraduate Nursing Students' Clinical Judgment in High-Fidelity Simulation"
• Reem Hannun, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, for "Climate Science Ambassadors for the Next Generation: Working with Pitt Students to engage their peers and community about climate change"
• Karthik Hariharan, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, for "Virtual Anatomy Permanent Teaching Collection"
• Prema Iyer, School of Pharmacy, for "Bridging the Gap: Game based learning as a strategy to integrate biochemistry principles and clinical concepts in Pharmacy Education"
• Lauren Jonkman, School of Pharmacy, for "Envisioning Health Justice through Photovoice: engaging health science students in structural competency"
• Linda O’Reilly, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, for "Enhancing Student Biochemical Learning through the Gaming of Metabolic Pathways"
• Amy Williams, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, for "Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory"