Rachel Kozlowski (Dyer Group) has been awarded the Dean’s Teaching Fellowshipa monetary award provided to support a student’s education... More for the 2019-2020 academic yearusually refers to the fall and spring semesters, roughly Sep... More. Dean’s Teaching Fellowships are selected based on progress towards completing the Ph.D. degree as well as a strong commitment to teaching. This year, 12 students were awarded the fellowshipa monetary award provided to support a student’s education... More, which provides financial support through a $19,000 stipendrefers to the funding offered to a student in support of the... More.
As a Dean’s Teaching Fellow, Rachel will be designing and teaching a section of CHEM-150: Structure and Properties as an instructor of record this coming fall. CHEM 150 is the first course in the Chemistry Unbound curriculumcourse of study. At Emory, often used to refer to the course... More and focuses on starting students in their chemistry studies with an “atoms first” approach.
“Being awarded this teaching fellowshipa monetary award provided to support a student’s education... More is an excellent opportunity for me, as my career goal is to be a professor at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUIacronym for "Primarily Undergraduate Institution". Refers to... More). Professors at PUIs have a much greater emphasis placed on teaching, so while I will still have a small undergraduate research groupa collection of people and resources engaged in a shared res... More, most of my job responsibilities will involve teaching students. Having the opportunity to be an instructor of record while still working towards my PhD degree is invaluable.”
Congratulations, Rachel!