2025 Fall Faculty Fellows
Each semester the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning invites faculty to submit proposals for collaboration with CITL and LTS staff on various aspects of their pedagogy and research with the goal of providing access to staff and technology resources to enhance and advance their teaching.
For the Fall 2025 semester, we encouraged faculty to submit proposals in five particular areas:
- the use of generative AI,
- the use of virtual reality and immersive learning environments,
- the inclusion of inquiry-based learning activities and assignments,
- the creation of cross-disciplinary course moments, and
- the use of LTS flexible learning spaces to promote active learning
2025 Fall Fellows
Bruce Whitehouse, Ph.D
Revise student learning outcomes and use backwards design to revamp activities, writing assignments, and assessments.
Kayleigh O'Keeffe, Ph.D
This project uses generative AI to help students in the BIOS 045 lab design experiments by analyzing existing research.
Lawrence Tartaglia, Ph.D
Enhance student engagement and practical understanding of genetics by integrating AI into the curriculum.
Katrina Zalatan, Ph.D
Update the BUS 203 writing course to teach students how to use Generative AI effectively, aligning with student practices and the College of Business's "AI at Work" theme.
Gabrielle String, Ph.D
Develop a case study project for a student led, public-facing digital archive of the Bethlehem Landfill.
Mark Erle, Ph.D
Implementing active learning and inclusive design principles, and utilizing appropriate instructional technologies for large classes.
E.J. Rovella
Integrate AI to explain complex medical codes and explore using it to automatically extract data from images.
Jenny Kowalski, MFA
Rework the course’s group accessibility project through shifting from hypothetical scenarios to real-world problem-solving, with students identifying and solving specific accessibility challenges at the Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG).
Shellen Wu, Ph.D
Redesigning course projects to have students learn about Asian American history through Sight, Sound and Taste.
Michelle Washington, Ph.D
Refine the requirements, rubric, and pedagogical approach related to a series of memos on leadership so students use AI tools responsibly and effectively.
Marie Schenk, Ph.D
Revisit course design to increase the number of opportunities students have to write and edit rough drafts and develop good habits in the writing process.
Ziad Munson, Ph.D
Develop AI-driven group exercises as well as an AI assisted transcription of in-class writing prompts
Rita Jones, Ph.D
Introducing students to diverse, interactive platforms for sharing their findings, moving beyond passive learning to active engagement.
Michelle LeMaster, Ph.D
Redesign an AI informed project to have students evaluate the effectiveness of these tools.
Jessica Harbaum, M.Ed
Help students become more critical consumers of media and more effective communicators in a multimodal world.
Teresa Cusumano, M.A., M.S.
Students will analyze the techniques and messages of social, political, and activist cartoons, and apply that understanding to create a modernized version of a historical cartoon using AI.
