Bryan Named 2005 College Science Teacher of the Year

University of Georgia education professor Lynn A. Bryan, has been named the College Science Teacher of the Year for 2005 by the Georgia Science Teachers Association (GSTA).

Bryan, an associate professor of science education in UGA's College of Education, was recognized by the GSTA for ongoing excellence in the teaching of science and commitment to its improvement.

The honor is just the latest recognition of Bryan's work. She has won several UGA and College of Education awards since joining the UGA faculty in 1997. She was named to the UGA Teaching Academy in 2004, and inducted into the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars in 2002. She also received the D. Keith Osborn Faculty Senate Award for Teaching Excellence and the Kappa Delta Epsilon Honor Society Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001, a UGA Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award in 2000, a Sarah H. Moss Fellowship and was one of eight UGA faculty selected as an International Fellow in 1998. She received an Outstanding Research Paper Award from the National Association of Research in Science Teaching in 1999.

Bryan's research interests include science teacher education, teacher beliefs and knowledge, reflective practice, sociocultural influences on teaching and learning in science, teaching and learning in rural Mexico; and qualitative research methodology. She is a co-principal investigator on “Project IMASE: Integrating Mathematics, Science and Engineering in Middle Grades,” which is funded by a three-year, $190,809 grant from the Georgia State Department of Education.

Bryan has been prolific in public service working with schools and educators locally, across the state and internationally, specifically with schools in the Honduras. The Georgia Science Teachers Association is a professional organization dedicated to improving science teaching at all levels, pre-school through university. Its membership of more than 2,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, and representatives of business and industry.

Monday, February 14, 2005
WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
CONTACT: Lynn A. Bryan, 706/542-4650, lbryan@coe.uga.edu