Cottrell Scholar Awards
Examples of Successful Educational Proposals
In an effort to improve the chances of success of future Cottrell Scholar applications, we have chosen successful educational proposals which are representative of the best we have received in the past few years. They illustrate a variety of styles and approaches which convinced us of the PI's passion for teaching in the research university setting. Successful plans are multifaceted and directed largely toward the undergraduate level. We offer these as examples that illustrate a scholar's understanding of his/her institutional culture and setting. Consequently these cannot and should not serve as templates for future submissions. The unique aspects of an applicant's proposal move it forward, not adherence to the specific formats found in these examples.
2009 Cottrell Scholar Award: Penny J. Beuning, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University: At the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: Integrating teaching and research on mutagenic DNA polymerases
2009 Cottrell Scholar Award: Michael David Gladders, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago: The Second Red-Sequence Cluster Survey:
100 Million Galaxies for the Masses
2008 Cottrell Scholar Award: Jeanne Ann Hardy, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Controlling Protein Function with Designed Allosteric Switches
2006 Cottrell Scholar Award: Jairo Sinova, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University: Spin-Hall effect in semiconductors and related phenomena in nano-spintronics