Cottrell Scholar Awards

Welcome

• Cottrell Scholar Awards
• Prospective Applicants
• Intro Guidelines
• Complete Guidelines
• Examples of Successful Teaching Proposals
• Eligibility Quiz
• Current Awardees
• Welcome
• Profiles of 2009 Awardees
• Lane Baker
• Penny Beuning
• Michael David Gladders
• Duncan Lorimer
• Robert McDermott
• Maura McLaughlin
• Scott Alan Snyder
• Snezana Stanimirovic
• Rory Waterman
• Yadong Yin
• General Information
• Past Awardees
• Program Statistics
• FAQs
• News

Welcome to the Cottrell Scholar website! We plan to make this site a resource for academic scientists who are, or aim to be, both excellent researchers and educators.

We have made several changes in the Cottrell Scholar Program to sharpen our focus. Eligible early career faculty are requested to feature educational proposals that reflect plans for improvement of undergraduate science education on their campus and incorporate understanding of the importance of improving pedagogy to attract and retain students in the sciences. Effective sustainable changes are difficult to accomplish by an individual and thus we ask applicants to identify a partner on campus to work together. For those applying to the Cottrell Scholar Program in 2010, pay particular attention to the revised Guidelines for the Educational Proposal that differ from previous years' Teaching Proposals.

The examples of successful teaching proposals we have posted from past Cottrell Scholars are those that most closely reflect our intention to encourage innovation in the undergraduate science curricula. Our long-term goal is to build a Cottrell Scholar community that will contribute to the development of leaders who can catalyze departmental change to enhance science education in R-1 universities. We encourage initiatives that support collaborations across disciplines.

The Cottrell Scholar profiles of awardees featured on this site are written by Ford Burkhart, former international editor of the New York Times. We are delighted to have him contribute to this project. Our main page features Burkhart's profiles of Cottrell Scholars that we present as a starting point for future discussions on research and education. We look forward to acting as a forum and catalyst for promoting innovative thinking and experimentation, especially as it relates to undergraduate science education in all its facets.