Teaching
Graduate Research Consultant Teaching Grant
For the Fall 2006 semester, The Office of Undergraduate Research and the Center for Teaching and Learning has selected Katherine's class, Health Economics: Problems and Policy (Econ 450), to be part of a program to increase research opportunities for undergraduates. The goal of the program is to encourage and support instructors who want to transform course projects or assignments into research projects. Research projects are defined as opportunities in which students use the methods of the discipline to pose questions, apply those methods in investigation, and communicate formally their findings to others. So that faculty can develop, guide, and evaluate the research component, the program compensates advanced graduate students to work with the instructor (Katherine) and the students during the concentrated period of the course when the students are planning, carrying out and communicating their research.