WashU Association of Teaching, Research, & Practice Faculty

Follow us to learn about ATRaP events and to celebrate the accomplishments of #WashU full-time, non-tenured/non-tenure track teaching, research, and practice faculty!

In case you missed it last Fall, here's a great profile of Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering Senior Lecturer, Engineer, and ATRAP Co-President Janie Brennan: https://lnkd.in/expdRwb7 ??

Congratulations to Barbara Baumgartner on being awarded emeritus status in the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) in WashU Arts & Sciences! Eligibility for emeritus status was extended to teaching, research, and practice faculty in June 2024 under the terms described on the Emeritus Status document under Academic Policies on the provost's website. Baumgartner is the director of undergraduate studies in WGSS. #NTTfaculty

??♀? Elizabeth Dodson, research assistant professor in the WashU Brown School, comments on what we can learn from the 2024 United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. Dodson, a member of the Report Card Advisory Committee, researches "ways in which policy can facilitate healthy decision-making around physical activity and obesity prevention."

?? If you haven't been to Jazz at Holmes for a while, catch the Vince Varvel Quartet there this Thursday 11/14 at 8 p.m. Vince Varvel is a lecturer (guitar) in the Department of Music in WashU Arts & Sciences and also director of guitar instruction.

We love seeing the teaching of TRaP faculty in the spotlight! Steven Malter is a professor of practice in management & entrepreneurship in Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School and a member of the ATRaP board. #NTTfaculty

ATRaP wishes the veterans within our ranks as well as the broader WashU community a Happy Veterans Day. Thank you for your service!

Kat Haklin, lecturer in French in WashU Arts & Sciences, is director of the WashU Healthcare in France program and teaches in the program along with Vincent Jouane, senior lecturer in French. The program, part of the French for Medical Professionals track in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, brings students with advanced French proficiency to Nice for an internship at H?pital Pasteur and an arts and culture course. #teachingfaculty

William Whitaker, professor of practice in drama in the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in WashU Arts & Sciences, directs the department's production of the Kate Hamill adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The production runs this weekend and next weekend at Edison Theater. Whitaker also teaches in WashU's summer theater program in London and in WashU's Prison Education Project. Additional PAD #NTTfaculty behind the scenes are Nikki (Dominique) Green, lecturer, costume design and Sean M. Savoie, teaching professor, lighting design.

From African & African American Studies to Writing, numerous courses taught by #NTTfaculty are recommended by Student Life's staff for Spring 2025. So from "Live Laugh Love Schaefer" to "actually [understanding] the poem a little bit" to a class that's "cathartic, eye-opening, and challenging," see their endorsements of the teaching of Anne Baril, Brian Bergstrom, Richard Chapman, Erin Finneran, Sidney Grady, Zachary Manditch-Prottas, Ann Mohr, Karl Schaefer, Matthew Shipe, and Andrea Urice. Thanks, Student Life, for this recognition of our colleagues!