In Class: Math Master
I teach a class on differential equations. This semester I’m teaching close to 600 students. They are mostly sophomore and junior engineering majors. It’s the course they take after Calculus
In Class: Veterans’ Advocate
The Veterans Legal Clinic is one of four legal clinics in the U of I College of Law. We also have an Immigration Law Clinic, Family Advocacy Clinic and Federal
In Class: Vision Quest
I teach taxation, which is a required class for accounting students at Illinois. They find it, frankly, kind of boring. We cover the core concept of depreciation. Everybody in the
In Class: Horror Buff
I’ve been teaching film since I was a graduate student in English, back in the mid-90s. I’ve always loved it. I used to use film to make points in classes
In Class: Fluid Mechanic
I focus on how air moves at high speed. Imagine a commercial aircraft with a gas turbine engine flying through the air. I teach my students how the air moves around
In Class: Facilitator
I am one of four core medical education facilitators at U of I’s Carle Illinois College of Medicine. We come from different backgrounds—engineering, neuroscience, physiology, biochemistry. I’m the biochemist. We started
In Class: Mixologist
Chemistry 232 has a reputation because a lot of pre-med students have to take it as a required class. On the first day, I am honest with them that organic
In Class: Myth Maker
I have always been drawn to texts, to what literature tells us about the past. I grew up in Greece on the island of Crete. We studied mythology beginning
In Class: Marriage Counselor
My area of research is domestic violence, and the majority of my students are human development and family studies majors. I teach an undergraduate class on family stress and change.
In Class: Printers’ Helper
The Illinois MakerLab is about five-and-a-half-years old. We began in January 2013. It’s the world’s first 3-D printing lab located in a business school. There are a couple of others
