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Pomona
Professor Receives National Award for Excellence in
Earth Science Teaching
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 Linda
Reinen, an associate professor of geology at Pomona College,
has been selected as the 2003 recipient of the prestigious
Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Education, by the
Geological Society of America, one of the largest geoscience
professional societies in the world, with more than 16,000
members, in 85 countries.
The Biggs Award is presented annually to a single faculty
member teaching undergraduate geosciences, who is less than
ten years into their teaching career. The honor will be
awarded on Sunday, November 2, at the 2003 Annual Meeting of
the Geological Society of America in Seattle.
At Pomona College, Professor Reinen teaches Introduction to
Geology: Geohazards, Hydrogeology, Structural Geology, and
Research Methods, which provides each student with the
unusual opportunity to conduct original research prior to
starting their senior thesis research. Last April, five
students from the course presented their work at the 99th
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA)
Cordilleran Section, held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
During the past several years, Professor Reinen has been
invited to lead or co-lead workshops on integrating research
into the undergraduate curriculum as an effective way of
teaching at the Council on Undergraduate Research national
meeting, meetings of the American Geophysical Union and GSA,
a Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) summer institute, and as part
of the program On the Cutting Edge: Workshops of Geoscience
Faculty, supported by the National Association of Geoscience
Teachers, and the Digital Library for Earth Science
Education with funding from the National Science
Foundation's division of undergraduate education.
Professor Reinen’s own research focuses on the mechanics of
fault systems, particularly how slip is accommodated on
faults, either through the generation of earthquakes or by
stable fault creep. The three main components of this
research are: (1) numerical models of earthquake cycles, (2)
laboratory experiments to determine physical processes
during earthquake generation, and (3) field studies of
naturally deformed fault rocks. Much of her work focuses on
faults containing serpentinite, a rock common to portions of
the San Andreas Fault and creeping segments of other fault
systems.
Professor Reinen earned her Ph.D. from Brown University and
both her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of
Massachusetts. Her most recent articles have appeared in
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Slip and Flow
Processes in and below the Seismogenic Region, Nov 5-8,
2001, Sendai, Japan; Geology; and Geophysical Research
Letters.
The 2003 Biggs Award marks the second time in recent years
that a Pomona College professor has received the Biggs
Award. In 2001, Eric Grosfils, chair of the Pomona Geology
Department received the honor. Richard Hazlett, an associate
professor of geology and the Stephen M. Pauley M.D. '62
Professor of Environmental Studies, has twice received the
Pomona College Wig Award for Excellence in Teaching, which
is bestowed following a vote of the junior and senior
classes.
Read Reinen's
Faculty Profile... |
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