The Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning Excellence in Teaching Award

Kris Stuempfle, who completed her Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, joined the Gettysburg College Health Sciences Department in 1997. She quickly had a very positive impact. Her expertise in Human Anatomy and Physiology, the very foundation of the Health Sciences curriculum, immediately increased the scientific rigor of many upper-level courses. Furthermore, she added breadth and depth to the program with new courses such as Environmental Physiology and Chronic Disease. Professor Stuempfle, however, always continues to seek ways to improve her courses despite ongoing positive feedback from her students. She expressly attended a pedagogical conference to learn how to use case studies in the classroom, a welcome addition because so many students in the Health Sciences Department will be going into the medical field.  But it is not simply Kris’s students who benefit from her knowledge and experience.  Colleagues new to the department do as well.  Kris is always ready to mentor new faculty and to share her teaching materials with those less experienced so that they, too, may find the same success that she has had.

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