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Art Brownlow

Faculty Fellow for Academic Innovation

art.brownlow@utrgv.edu

Art Brownlow

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Art Brownlow
Faculty Fellow for Academic Innovation
Office of Academic Affairs
Email: art.brownlow@utrgv.edu

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Art Brownlow is Professor of Music and Provost’s Fellow for Academic Innovation at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches music history. He is a Fellow in the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers and an Apple Distinguished Educator. He also has received the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, the College Music Society Instructional Technology Initiative Award, and Flipped Learning Certification Levels I & II from the Flipped Learning Global Initiative. Dr. Brownlow's research interests include brass instrument history, nineteenth-century orchestral music, educational technology, and flipped learning. Published work includes The Last Trumpet: A History of the English Slide Trumpet, Teaching Music History with iPad, various articles in journals and conference proceedings, and many presentations at conferences and symposia. In addition to a Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin, he received degrees in trumpet from Northwestern University and music education from Furman University, with additional studies in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Alyssa G. Cavazos

Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Composition & Literacy Studies

alyssa.cavazos@utrgv.edu

Alyssa G. Cavazos

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Alyssa G. Cavazos
Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Composition & Literacy Studies
Department of Writing and Language Studies
Email: alyssa.cavazos@utrgv.edu

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Alyssa G. Cavazos is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies in the Department of Writing and Language Studies and Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in writing studies. Her pedagogical and scholarly interests include: language difference in the teaching of writing, translingual writing across communities, professional development in higher education, and border rhetorics. She was awarded the University of Texas System 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2017 UTRGV Excellence Award in Teaching. She is committed to designing linguistically inclusive pedagogies, which can lead to students’ academic success across academic disciplines in higher education.

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Tina Thomas

2020 COS Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching Awardee

tina.thomas@utrgv.edu

Tina Thomas

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Tina Thomas
2020 COS Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching Awardee
Department of Chemistry
Email: tina.thomas@utrgv.edu

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Dr. Tina Thomas, Lecturer III, joined the UTRGV/UTPA family in the Fall of 2013 in the Department of Chemistry. Even though she connected well with her students initially, after participating in COS & NSF– HSI Program, she took extra effort to better understand the culture in the valley and modify her pedagogical methods, which improved her teaching evaluations from above 90% to consistently above 95% even in large classes with over 200 students. She received “Excellence in Teaching”- College of Sciences in 2020, was selected to “Master Teacher Workshop” from VCOBE and is currently taking part in the Teaching Fellows program by NSF aiming to transform STEM learning among underserved minority students.

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Bonnie Gunn

Lecturer III

bonnie.gunn@utrgv.edu

Bonnie Gunn

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Bonnie Gunn
Lecturer III
Department of Biology
Email: bonnie.gunn@utrgv.edu

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Ms. Bonnie S. Gunn is a first-generation college student raised in rural Iowa. She is a legacy graduate from the University of Texas Pan American where she earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Biology. Her thesis work was in cytogenetics. Since graduation she has primarily focused her efforts on teaching and first served at STC before joining the faculty at the legacy University of Texas Pan American and remains with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her passion remains teaching with an emphasis on maintaining an inclusive learning environment which has earned her the Accessibility Achievement Award (2016), the Accessibility Achievement Award 2017-Student Belonging (2017), the UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching (Non-Tenure Track 2018), and the Accessibility Ambassador Award (2020). The Accessibility Ambassador Award was in honor of her ongoing efforts to promote inclusive learning environments by mentoring other faculty and leading workshops.

Ms. Gunn acts as a faculty mentor and committee member to both undergraduate and graduate students doing cancer research in the research lab of Dr. Megan Keniry. She also serves as the chair of Lecturer Annual Review/Evaluation Subcommittee for the Department of Biology.

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