• Intentional AI Spotlight: Nate Kirk on cultivating productive failure in biology

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the ongoing Intentional AI at OSU series, I sat down with Nate Kirk, an associate professor (teaching) in the Department of Integrative Biology. Nate’s background as a molecular ecologist—studying the intricate symbiotic relationships between cnidarians…


  • Centering community in the classroom: Experiential approaches in ethnic studies

    By Jennifer A. Reimer Recio, OSU-Cascades What happens when students encounter course concepts through lived experience, dialogue, and shared space? This question guided my CTL mini-grant project, Embodied Perspectives: Integrating Scholar and Community Voices in Ethnic Studies. With support from the OSU Center for Teaching and Learning, I developed a speaker series across ES 201:…


  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Sanjai Tripathi on moving beyond “lazy” AI in entrepreneurship

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the ongoing Stories of AI at OSU series, I sat down with Sanjai Tripathi, an instructor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Oregon State University, to discuss how he is moving his classroom from AI-resistant to…