ITS along with the Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the 2026-27 awardees of the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant. Supported by the Hahn Fund for Innovation, Hahn Teaching with Technology grants are devoted to cultivating instructional innovations using technology to advance teaching and learning for the success of all students.
The following Pomona faculty were awarded Hahn grants. Click a thumbnail to learn more.
Jordan Daniels
Philosophies of Place
For her project, Jordan Daniels is creating a new environmental analysis course, Philosophies of Place, that will bring twentieth-century and Indigenous philosophies of space, place, and technology into conversation with hands-on ArcGIS mapping projects.
JoAnne Ferguson
Elevating Pomona Softball with Rapsodo 2.0 Technology
Building on the progress made during the first year of this project, JoAnne Ferguson continues to integrate Rapsodo Pro 2.0, an advanced flight monitoring system, into Pomona’s softball program to enhance player development, recruiting, and data literacy. Early implementation already shows measurable gains in athlete performance and engagement.
Elizabeth Glater
Preparation of “Quantitative Analysis of Worm Behavior Module” for Open Access by Pomona Students
Elizabeth Glater’s project expands access to a computational neuroscience lab module by having Pomona students create open-access video datasets and documentation that enable neuroscience educators and students worldwide to practice quantitative C. elegans behavioral analysis without specialized equipment.
Fran Hanzawa
Building High-Resolution Camera Traps to Study Pollination Ecology and Insect Diversity in Biology Courses
Fran Hanzawa’s project will equip biology students with plant-insect interaction camera traps (PICTs) to help them study plant-pollinator interactions and design research projects that go beyond the limitations of direct observation and traditional trail cameras.
Denise Machin
Expanding Accessible Dance Pedagogy Through Canvas and Video Instruction
Denise Machin’s project will build a centralized, accessibility-oriented Canvas-based library of ballroom and social dance instructional videos to support approximately 120–160 students annually across six dance courses, enabling independent, flexible review of embodied movement material outside of class.
Kyle Wilson
AI-Supported Workflow Integration in ECON 132
Kyle Wilson’s project focuses on the redesign of ECON 132 to integrate Claude Code as an AI-assisted programming partner, allowing students with varying coding backgrounds to focus more deeply on economic reasoning, modeling decisions, and critical evaluation of AI-generated guidance in empirical research.
