Heather A. Ballard
Instructor, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Searle Fellows Program
The Searle Fellows Program aims helps early career faculty develop expertise and knowledge about learning and teaching.Since the program's inception in 1999, our Searle Fellows have exemplified what it means to think critically and reflectively about one’s own teaching—and the learning of one’s students—across a wide variety of disciplines and fields. To date, over two hundred-fifty early career faculty members, drawing from nine schools and representing a broad range of disciplines have passed through our program, making their mark not only in the classrooms, but also on the greater Northwestern community and beyond.
Fostering a deep sense of inquiry into student learning has long been an underlying principle of the Searle Fellows Program. Rather than focusing simply on providing strategies, techniques, and tips, the Searle Fellows program seeks to foster critical inquiry and professional reflection on teaching, drawing on the university’s strategic assessment framework.
The program is designed to: (1) integrate with existing faculty teaching demands, (2) draw on the academic experience of faculty in their current research/scholarship, (3) provide academic rigor and stimulation at a high intellectual level, and (4) create a professional experience which will be rich and rewarding for faculty over the course of their careers.
The program's main goals are to: (1) strengthen the participants’ knowledge, understanding, and expertise in learning and teaching; and (2) help faculty develop a teaching innovative project that will foster and assess deep student learning.
For more information about the Searle Fellows Program and fellow projects, including application guidelines, please visit the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching website.
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Searle Fellows Cohort
David Boyk
Assistant Professor, Hindu-Urdu Language, Literature, and Film, Asian Languages and Cultures, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Eric D. Donnelly
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine
James Paul Hambleton
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
Erica Marie Hartmann
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
Sara Hernández
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Economics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth Hibler
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention)
Julia Ann Kalow
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Jolie Matthews
Assistant Professor, Learning ScieSchool of Education and Social Policy
Eric Ardon Mosser
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Program in Biological Sciences
Elizabeth Spencer Norton
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communication
Maheen Quadri
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine
Jonathan Rivnay
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
Asma Ben Romdhane
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Arabic, Middle East and North African Studies Program, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Tania L. Saroli
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Neil Kanwar Harish Verma
Assistant Professor, Radio-Television-Film, School of Communication
Mitchell (Muzhou) Wang
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
Katie Knoedelseder Wolfe
Instructor, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
Sera Lewise Young
Assistant Professor, Anthropology (Global Health), Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences