NDSU: Viewbook: Faculty Commitment

NDSU is home to prominent researchers, such as Brian Slator in computer science, who recently won an international award for excellence in teaching, learning and technology. The award recognizes Slator's accomplishments in designing and implementing computer programs that create virtual worlds as learning tools.

The computer programs cited in the award are Geology Explorer, which has been used by about 800 students in NDSU's physical geology course, and Virtual Cell, which has been used by about 500 students in Biology 150.

Slator gives much of the credit to the students and faculty who were involved with the studies.

LEADING RESEARCHERS INVOLVE STUDENTS

Recently, landscape architecture students were able to show their work at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo. To prepare for the project, the students took a day-long field trip to Winnipeg, canoed down the Red River in Fargo and then incorporated information from previous courses. http://www.ndsu.edu/arch/

76 percent of the full-time faculty have the highest degrees in their fields, earned at institutions such as Stanford, Northwestern, MIT and Columbia University.

The majority-80 percent-of NDSU class sections have 30 or fewer students, and 18 percent have 31 to 99 students. Less than 3 percent have more than 100 students and those are typically in introductory courses.

Psychology department faculty regularly involve three to five undergraduates in their research projects. Major research interests include health, visual perception, personality, social psychology and others. http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/psychology/

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