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2023-2024

BSCI 1510: Introduction to Biological Sciences

Jim Patton
Stevenson professor
of Biological Sciences

Thomas Clements
Senior lecturer

Learning Assistants

Marisa Albarran
Zoe Abel
Kanoe Bonilla
Drugan Brady
Abbie Carr
Aashi Gurijala
Eunyoung Hong
Audrey Lingan
Suhaah Nadir
Brina Ratangee
Kyle Vallone
Helen Yang
Henoc Zinga

How the LAs were integrated

Flipped classroom. Open
question and answer at
the beginning of class and
then LAs discussed new
problems with students in
small groups afterwards.
LAs hosted Zoom
meetings on Fridays to go
over questions from the
lectures each week.



Todd Graham
Stevenson professor
of Biological Sciences






Sabriya Rosemond
Assistant professor of the practice in
Biological Sciences

Learning Assistants

Zoe Abel
Mackenzie Horne
Sarah Hourihan
Min Joo Kim
Ray Kongmanychanh
Natalie Loveridge
Gian Luca Lupica-Tondo
Jacob Meyers
Cheryl Quartey
Lexi Scheuing
Claire Tate

How the LAs were integrated

Students prepared for
class by watching videos
and completing a
worksheet for participation
credit; each LA led a
discussion of the
worksheet in a separate
room in a small group, with
faculty members visiting
each room.

CHEM 1601: General Chemistry

Tara Todd
Principal senior lecturer in
Chemistry and Director of
Undergraduate Studies

Learning Assistants


Heather Bryant
Sebastian Bujoi
Kyle Davis
Alex Eisenrich
Jasmin Elnaggar
Camilla Guel
Hailey Kramer
Roman Thomas
Tigist Tilahun
Elena Woodburn

How the LAs were integrated

LAs led small group discussion
during the last third of class.

Adam List
Prinicipal senior lecturer
in Chemistry

Learning Assistants

Kyle Davis
Priya Bhatt
Isabella Binci
Avery Fortier
Ahmed Imani
Alex Lashgari
Thu Nguyen
Tristan Sealy
Jasmine Sun
Chloe Tzau
Soumya Vytla

How the LAs were integrated

LAs led small group discussion
during the last third of class.

CHEM 2221: Organic Chemistry

Katie Clements
Senior lecturer of Chemistry

Learning Assistants


Pragnya Adapa
Marisa Albarran
Eshani Arumalla
Madalyn Bergman
Mike Jiang
Darius Johnson
Dorian Lawson-Qureshi
Victoria Li
Tom No
Alisa Shmidt

How the LAs were integrated

Students prepared for
class by watching videos.
Class is interspersed with
short lectures. LAs led a
discussion of material in
small groups with faculty
member walking around.

CHEM 2211: Organic Chemistry for Advanced Placement Students

Jeff Johnston
Stevenson professor of Chemistry

Learning Assistants


Avery Haynes
Shreyas Teegla

How the LAs were integrated

Students prepared for
class by watching videos.
Class is interspersed with
short lectures. LAs led a
discussion of material in
small groups with faculty
member walking around.

EES 1510: The Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Geological Sciences

Lily Claiborne
Principal senior lecturer
of Earth and Environmental
Sciences and Director of
Undergraduate Studies

Learning Assistants


Cora Jackson
Easton Maxey
Alicia Sigworth
Jeremy Tallon
Hannah Weishar

How the LAs were integrated

Provide support as students
work through problems and
answer questions in small
groups during class.

BSCI 1103: Green Earth: The Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants

Amanda Benson
Senior lecturer of
Biological Sciences

Learning Assistants

Lauren Bishop
Nora Fellas
Jake Gorham

How the LAs were integrated

Provide support as students
work through problems and
answer questions in small
groups during class.

NSC 3269: Developmental Neuroscience

Elizabeth Catania
Assistant professor
in Neuroscience
and Director of
Undergraduate Studies

Learning Assistants

Sawyer Fleishman
Kayla Furney
Foster Johnson
Noah Kelley
Phoebe Young

How the LAs were integrated

Students prepared for class
by watching lecture videos.
In class, LA’s led small
groups of students through
assignments reviewing or
extending the lecture
videos. Assignments
ranged from worksheets, to
review of data and figures
from papers to short
problem based learning
type questions.

PHYS 1501: Physics

Savanna Starko
Senior lecturer in
Physics & Astronomy

Learning Assistants


Section 1:
Gayatri Aluri
Lavanya Dhavala
Will Ford
Marina He
Sriya Jonnakuti
Amanda Maeglin
Anjali Raman
Isra Schuster

Section 2:
Leen Alabdalla
Rishik Bethi
Riya Chinni
Morgan Cramer
Minoli Fernando
Sam Josephson
Ryan Mckew
Grace Ward

How the LAs were integrated

LAs led small group discussions
and active learning exercises
interspersed with short lectures.

PSY 2100: Quantitative Methods

Adriane Seiffert
Senior lecturer and
research assistant
professor of Psychology

Learning Assistants


Kavi Jakes
Gakenia Muigai
Sophia Podolsky
Lillian Zheng

How the LAs were integrated

LAs helped students
complete in-class activities
by answering questions and
encouraging students to
engage with a range of
topics.

MATH 1200: Single-Variable Calculus I

Course Assistants


Amanuel Benti
Jake Du
Jasmine Ferrier
Kate Gallardo
Matthew Ku
Joyce Luo
Elisa Maknojia
Alexander Peters
Kathleen Praino
Paige Rieschick
Zoe Segal
Maya Shamari
Marques Watson

How the LAs were integrated

Course assistants meet with small groups of students for collaborative homework sessions once per week.

MATH 1300: Accelerated Single-Variable Calculus I

Course Assistants


Michelle Bramlett
Rhonda Giadolor
Kaylee Greenberg
Jose Gutierrez
Madeleine Guyton
Jacob Katz
Brooke Lytle
Alberto Magana
Demos Negash
Michelle Park
Isabella Peng
Kyle Pinzon
Dannah Sader
Lavonte Saunders
Rohit Sharma
Yijin Shen
Matthew Shipley
Yujie Wang
Suah Woo
Leyton Xing

How the LAs were integrated

Course assistants meet with small groups of students for collaborative homework sessions once per week.

SCED 2330: Pedagogy Seminar

Cynthia Brame
Associate director,
Center for Teaching

Learning Assistant

Easton Maxey

How the LAs were integrated

Amy Palmeri
Associate professor of the
Practice, Early Childhood
and Elementary Education

Learning Assistant

Natalie Loveridge

How the LAs were integrated

Taylor McNeill
Doctoral student, Teaching, Learning, & Diversity

Learning Assistant

Henoc Zinga

How the LAs were integrated