Current Mosaic Fellows come from diverse academic backgrounds and represent many different schools and departments at IU. Through the program, fellows have an opportunity, over the course of a full academic year, to engage in active learning practices in their own teaching and with other Mosaic Fellows, as well as contribute towards the development of learning spaces across Indiana University.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies; Program Coordinator, Department of International Studies
Jean teaches comparative politics and international relations and researches ethno-nationalism. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will explore how classroom spaces can become more conducive for active learning through in-depth, live-action, role-play games. Jean is also co-host the International Power Hour, a weekly international affairs podcast.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology
Yamini teaches introductory and abnormal undergraduate courses and graduate level courses in the Mental Health Counseling Program in the department of psychology at Indiana University Kokomo. As a Mosaic Fellow, she intends to explore ways to develop rich, dynamic, collaborative classroom learning communities using innovative media technologies.
Lecturer, Informatics and Computing
Fawzi has over 30 years of educational technology, content development, and intelligence experience with interests in data transformation and Intelligent Learning Systems. As a Mosaic Fellow, he will focus on creating interactive learning activities placing more focus on learning rather than teaching and creating just in time active learning that is fun and pedagogically engaging at the same time.
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Program Director BSHS
Kathy teaches First Year Seminar courses as well as Diversity and Health Promotion courses. She enjoys using active learning techniques to engage students. As a Mosaic Fellow, she would like to encourage her students to be excited about learning from the context of questioning, collaborating, failing, rewriting, and creating solutions.
Visiting Assistant Nursing Professor
Adam has been a surgical intensive care unit nurse for the past nine years. As a Mosaic Fellow, he will focus on interpersonal communication and creating innovative, active learning strategies to engage and motivate students in the traditional classroom and in the online environment.
Lecturer, Mathematics
Since 2004, Leigh has taught developmental college courses as well as the Mathematics for Elementary Teachers courses at IUPUC for candidates applying to the Education program. As a Mosaic Fellow, Leigh will explore incorporating current technology into the mathematics classroom which encourages discovery based learning supported by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Associate Dean / Assistant Professor, Nursing
Amanda teaches nursing in the undergraduate and graduate courses at Indiana University East. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will explore ways to improve her active learning strategies specifically focused to improve clinical reasoning and professional practices in our future nurses.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Gregory teaches neuroscience and psychology. His research interests are in motor psychophysics. He began his teaching career as a middle and high school science teacher in the Bronx, NYC. As a Mosaic Fellow, he plans to design hands-on neuroscience research experiences for his undergraduate courses.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing
Emily teaches pathophysiology and pharmacology in the School of Nursing. She utilizes creative pedagogy in the classroom to encourage lifelong learning of the material. As a Mosaic Fellow, she plans to develop innovative, active, and unique teaching strategies to encourage holistic learning of the material.
Program Director and Assistant Clinical Professor, Speech Language Pathology
Jennifer teaches undergraduate health sciences courses while developing a Master’s program in Speech-Language Pathology for IUSB. As a Mosaic Fellow, she is interested in improving collaborative learning spaces in the health sciences and using active learning to increase critical thinking.
Assistant Professor of Education
Sarrah has varied experience in education, including teaching at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels, and coordinating curriculum, instruction, and professional development across all levels of schooling. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will encourage her undergraduate education students to collaborate and co-create curriculum as they develop their teacher hearts.
Lecturer, Nursing
Betsy teaches sophomore and junior level undergraduate nursing courses. She strives to transform her classroom into an active learning environment. As a Mosaic Fellow, Betsy plans to use evidence-based active learning strategies to encourage deeper learning and collaboration among students.
Assistant Clinical Professor, Education
Denice teaches courses in elementary and early childhood education. Her professional work focuses on family literacy and supporting teachers in creating safe, democratic learning communities. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will explore the use of effective technologies to increase student engagement.
Assistant Professor, Urban Teacher Education & Africana Studies
Lasana is an Assistant Professor at IUPUI and teaches in the School of Education and in the Africana Studies Program. He is a published poet, educational consultant, and scholar of Global Black Arts Traditions and Urban Teacher Education. As a Mosaic Fellow, he plans to explore Reflective Teaching as both pedagogy and philosophy.
Assistant Professor, Education
Laura teaches course preparing teacher candidates to integrate civic science curricula and support the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classrooms. As a Mosaic Fellow, she hopes to examine and revise current course curricula to leverage better both traditional and non-traditional classroom spaces to meet these integrated course aims.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Kevin teaches course on statistics, research methods, the sociology of music, and social theory. As a Mosaic Fellow he will develop active learning projects, lessons, and materials using the latest classroom technology and online instructional tools.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Stacie is a generalist and teaches a variety of courses including criminological theory, statistics, criminal law, myths/issues/realities of crime, methods, women and crime, and policy. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will explore the connection between technology, active learning, learning space, and community enhancement in criminal justice courses to provide a more in-depth and rich approach of critical analysis and application of material.
Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Chair and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program
Sharon teaches courses in Advanced Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering Design, Biomedical Engineering Professions Seminar, and Biomedical Computing. As a Mosaic Fellow, she plans to explore instructional technologies and alternative classroom designs to create interactive biomedical engineering seminar courses.
Assistant Professor of Education
Christina teaches reading and language arts methods, foundations, and technology in education courses. Her research interests include narrative inquiry as well as narrative, sacred, and artifactual literacies. As a Mosaic fellow, she plans to focus on using the physical classroom space along with engaging pedagogy to create active learning spaces.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science
Barbara teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences program at IUSB, with an enhanced interest in clinical microbiology. As a Mosaic Fellow, Barbara will focus on interactive learning and EduGaming in lecture courses to complement laboratory activities.
Professor of Marketing and International Studies; Head, Division of Business
As a Mosaic Fellow he hopes to learn about using Virtual Reality (VR) in courses. Frank’s desire is to improve student learning using VR scenarios replicating business conditions. Students practice making decisions in a VR lab before beginning internships or professional positions.
Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting
Lin teaches cost accounting and intro to managerial accounting for the Kelley undergraduate program. As a Mosaic Fellow, she plans to implement research-based and evidence-based cognitive psychology in teaching to improve student learning.
Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Coordinator of Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
Amy teaches all levels of Spanish from beginning to advanced. Her favorite courses to teach are grammar and culture. As a Mosaic Fellow, she will focus on how classroom design can affect student creativity and hopes to explore active learning techniques and technologies.
