Stanton M. Braude, Ph.D., lecturer in biology in Arts & Sciences, has won the Four-Year College Biology Teacher of the Year Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), honoring a faculty member who demonstrates creativity and innovation in his or her teaching.
Such innovation must have been implemented in the classroom and demonstrated to be effective.
As the winner, Braude will present a lecture and receive the award at the NABT annual meeting Nov. 10 in Chicago. His talk will be called “Teaching With Case Studies: Moving Beyond the Textbook Model.”
Braude, who has been at the University since 1993, teaches “Human Biology,” “Introduction to Ecology” and “Human Anatomy & Physiology.”
He has written texts for these courses that use case histories to engage students in solving quantitative, critical-thinking problems.
The award is primarily in recognition of this work, but also recognizes his training of graduate student teachers and his work with Science Outreach at the University, at the Saint Louis Zoo and through the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Braude’s text Interactions: Understanding Ecology Through Active Learning is in press with McGraw Hill and is expected to be released in the spring.
In addition to teaching, he works in Kenya on the behavior and population genetics of rhinos and naked mole-rats.