Congrats CCT & CIRTL Graduates!
This year, 38 graduate students and postdocs completed the CCT and CIRTL programs gaining hands-on experience and training in evidence-based, learner-centered teaching to prepare for impactful careers in college instruction and educational leadership.
Graduate students and postdocs are essential teachers at our institution, and we are lucky to have learned from them in two different teaching programs. This year, we had 38 graduates from the Certificate in College Teaching (CCT) and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) programs, both of which are housed in the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT).
The CCT is a 10-credit graduate program in the College Teaching GIDP where students across all disciplines hone their teaching skills and practices by focusing on learner-centered design, incorporating evidence-based practices into the classroom, and getting feedback on their teaching skills.
The CIRTL program is part of an international network of research institutions helping prepare STEM graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty for teaching in higher education. Participants can earn three micro credentials—associate, practitioner, and scholar—by participating in professional development programs, conducting teaching-as-research (TAR) projects, co-teaching with mentors, and presenting their work to the wider teaching and learning community.
Please join us in celebrating the 2024-2025 graduates of these two instrumental programs:
CCT Graduates
Brandon Levenstein, Geosciences
Joey Balke, Linguistics
Claire Cook, Planetary Sciences
Geoffrey Finch, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Katherine King, Anthropology
Josie Mazzone, Physiological Sciences
Maša Miščevic, Physiological Sciences
Kelsy Nilles, Neuroscience
Andrew Tang, Neuroscience
CIRTL Graduates
Associate Level I
Krista Brandon, Nursing
Stefanie Boyles, Nursing
Lucy Martinez-Guerrero, Pharmacology
Lee Taylor-Vaughn, Nursing
Practitioner Level II
Aditya Bandimatt, Information Science
Marium Yousuf, Applied Mathematics
Scholar Level III
Sushma Akoju, Computer Science
Joanna Joseph, Systems & Industrial Engineering
Oluchi Kanma-Okafor, Public Health
Josie Mazzone, Physiological Sciences
Postdoc Pathways (combined Levels 1 & 2)
Boris Benedikter, Space4 Center
Sarita Bugalia, Animal and Comparative Animal Sciences
Xiran Chen, Government & Public Policy
Andrea D’Ambrosio, Systems & Industrial Engineering
Ian Estacio, Arizona Institute for Resilience
Lorenzo Federici, Systems & Industrial Engineering
Elizabeth Green, Plant Sciences
Kabir Hossain, Plant Sciences
Jacob Isbell, Astronomy
Clement Lopez, Environmental Science
Veleda Muller, Geosciences
Xiaojuan Ni, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Rajan Pandey, Physiology
Nathaniel Ponvert, Plant Sciences
Darpan Raghav, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Snidgha Rai, Plant Sciences
Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Astronomy
Allison Towner, Plant Sciences
Sarah Yeo, University of Arizona Cancer Center
We are so proud of our graduates and wish them all the very best!
