ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Two faculty members from the SUNY College at Oneonta have been named as recipients of the 2009 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Renee Walker, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Dr. Brian Beitzel, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling, will receive the awards at the College's Commencement on Saturday, May 16.
A member of the SUNY Oneonta faculty since 2002, Dr. Walker received the College's 2006 Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. At SUNY Oneonta, she teaches courses in anthropology and archaeology and serves as co-director of the Archeological Field School at Pine Lake. She has developed a number of new courses in archaeology including a travel course to archaeological sites in Mexico. Before joining SUNY Oneonta, she taught at Skidmore College.
Dr. Walker's primary interests in teaching and research include zooarchaeology, Eastern North American archaeology, PaleoIndian and Archaic period subsistence patterns, and the archaeology of hunter-gatherers. She has fieldwork experience in North America and Europe and has conducted much of her research at the site of Dust Cave, Alabama. Dr. Walker is the co-editor and a contributing author of the book "Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America," which was released in 2007. She holds a doctorate and a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a bachelor's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Beitzel joined the SUNY Oneonta faculty in 2004. At the College, he teaches courses in the psychological foundations of education, child growth and development, and survey of exceptional children. He is known for his outstanding instruction and use of cutting-edge computer technology. His primary interests in teaching and research include the use of video cases to learn complex concepts and the use of external representations for problem solving.
Dr. Beitzel was named the 2007 recipient of the prestigious American
Psychological Association's Division of Educational Psychology Paul R.
Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award, which he received for his
dissertation entitled "Designing Contrasting Video Case Activities to
Facilitate Learning of Complex Subject Matter." He earned his master's
degree and doctorate in educational psychology from the University of
Wisconsin--Madison.
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