Dr. Hayes-Gehrke's Teaching

My Teaching

I teach astronomy classes primarily for non-science majors at the University of Maryland, in the Astronomy Department.

Teaching Fellowships and Awards

Distinguished Faculty Teaching Prize in the Department of Astronomy (2014)
General Education Programs Teaching Award (2014)
Center for Teaching Excellence-Lilly Fellowship 2011-2012

Spring 2016

ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Fall 2015

ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 315: Astronomy in Practice

Spring 2015

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 315: Astronomy in Practice

Fall 2014

ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 310: Observational Astronomy (for majors)

Summer 2014

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy

Spring 2014

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Fall 2013

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 315: Astronomy in Practice (a new course that I developed). The three papers published by the students can be read in this Minor Planet Bulletin on pages 72, 77, and 78.

Spring 2013

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy (both MWF and TTH sections)
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems

Fall 2012

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Spring 2012

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Fall 2011

Summer 2011

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Spring 2011

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Tim Fromm, Paige Junghans, Ivan Lochan, and Sean Murphy. The paper published by the students can be read in this Minor Planet Bulletin on page 204.

Fall 2010

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Joseph Benik, Sam Knutson, Zsombor Kovacs, and Charles Mills. The paper published by the students can be read in this Minor Planet Bulletin on page 75.

Summer 2010

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Spring 2010

Fall 2009

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Justin Ellis, John Liu, Allison Melega, Luis Sanchez-Gardea, and Tevis Tsai. Here is their poster of results, which was presented at the January 2010 AAS meeting.

Summer 2009

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Spring 2009

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduate Brandy Stewart

Fall 2008

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Ramsey Sahli and Brandy Stewart. Read their final report on searching for extragalactic HII regions in SDSS data.

Summer I 2008

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space

Spring 2008

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Thomas Palmerino, Philip Wight, and Dustin Wright. Read their final paper.

Fall 2007

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduate Scott Shores. View poster of results, which was presented at the January 2008 AAS meeting.

Summer I 2007

Spring 2007

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Paul Hearding and Ben McIlwain. Read their final paper (the formatting is a bit messed up because of my conversion from Word to PDF).

Fall 2006

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 300: Stars and Stellar Systems
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Ryan Ashford, Jonathan Croco, Leanne Dinverno, and David Simon. Read their final paper.

Summer 2006

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy (Summer Session I)
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space (Summer Session I)

Spring 2006

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduates Stephen Brookman, Carl Brown, Kelly Fields, Stephanie Koch. Read their final paper.

Fall 2005

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 330: Solar System Astronomy
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduate Demetris Themistokleous. Look at his poster, presented at the Jan. 2006 AAS Meeting.

Summer 2005

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy (Summer Session I)
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space (Summer Session II)

Spring 2005

ASTR 100: Introduction to Astronomy
ASTR 220: Collisions in Space
ASTR 498: Special Problems in Astronomy - with undergraduate Gary Studen. Read his final paper on the project. (The formatting is a little messy because of my conversion from Word to PDF.)

Fall 2004

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