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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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