- Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- 12:00 PM–2:00 PM
Join us for an insight into two recent teaching award winners. Matt and Kate have impacted countless students over the years in the classroom and through research. They have given great thought to how their teaching impacts others and has changed over time. This lecture is only online.
About our speaker
Kate van Liere and Matt Heun are both recipients of the Presidential Award of Exemplary Teaching at Calvin University. They are both on a mission to inspire students to dream big. In this talk, the professors discuss together their different teaching styles and what they’ve learned in the classroom.
Dr. Kate van Liere holds a B.A. in History of Ideas from Williams College, an M.A. in history from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Before moving to Grand Rapids she taught at the College of Charleston (S.C.). She teaches courses on European and world history since 1500 at Calvin, with an emphasis on the Renaissance and Reformation eras, religious history, and historiography. Kate publishes articles on early modern Spanish intellectual history. She also teaches part-time in the Spanish and Dutch departments. She directs the history internship program at Calvin which places students in museums, historical societies or local non-profit organizations.
After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Matt Heun worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, where he led studies and experiments related to planetary exploration with balloon systems. After working at JPL, Dr. Heun joined Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC), a start-up aerospace R&D company, as its first full-time employee. At GAC, Dr. Heun proposed, led, and completed several projects in support of NASA’s Earth Science activities. Dr. Heun spent his 2009 sabbatical in South Africa at the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology where he taught and participated in sustainable energy development.
About the January Series
The January Series is a FREE 15-day lecture series that takes place each year at Calvin University and aims to cultivate deep thought and conversations about important issues of the day in order to inspire cultural renewal and make us better global citizens in God's world.
» January Series in July: We are releasing three online-only lectures in July as an additional gift to you!
How to watch this lecture
This lecture will be available starting on July 26 at 12:00 p.m. EST.
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