Lamphear receives grant for teaching innovation

The DeLay Curriculum Grant Committee announced Monday that science teacher Dee Lamphear is this year’s recipient of the 2013 Pauline McMillan DeLay Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation. Lamphear will use her award to augment a project for her Anatomy & Physiology students involving an investigation of joint injury and a redesign of the joint to prevent such injury. 

“I am thrilled to receive the DeLay Award,” says Lamphear. “This project helps to demonstrate the importance of creativity and innovation in science, particularly medicine. The ‘right’ answer does not exist for this project in some unknown corner of a web search, so students have to explore their own understanding and imagination to come up with a solution. Not having a ‘right’ answer encourages students to take risks and explore the unknown.”

The Pauline McMillan DeLay Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation was established in 1990 by former faculty member Jeanine DeLay in honor of her mother, Pauline M. DeLay, an Ann Arbor teacher. Since 2002, the award has recognized faculty for their creativty, experimentation and innovation. All Greenhills faculty members are eligible for funding.