Elise A. Piazza
As a teacher and mentor, I am committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere for all students in the classroom and the lab. Inspired by my own liberal arts education at Williams, my teaching tends to bridge multiple disciplines, such as psychology/music/signal processing, or neuroscience/machine learning.
fall 2021
Instructor for Language (a hybrid graduate/undergraduate course on naturalistic and computational approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of language), University of Rochester
Overall Instructor Rating (average rating): 4.83/5 (2021)
spring 2021
Invited Guest Lecturer for Cognition (a graduate course), University of Rochester
spring 2021
Instructor for Music and the Mind (an undergraduate course), University of Rochester
Overall Instructor Rating (average rating): 4.75/5 (2021)
spring 2018
Invited Guest Lecturer for a Neuroscience Core Methods Course (a graduate course), Princeton University
fall 2016, fall 2017
Instructor for a Neuroscience Junior Tutorial (an undergraduate course), Princeton University
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 4.9/5 (2017)
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 4.5/5 (2016)
fall 2016
Invited Guest Lecturer for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (an undergraduate course), Princeton University
summer 2015
Instructor for Music and the Brain (an undergraduate course), UC Berkeley
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 5.8/7
spring 2015
Invited Guest Lecturer for Sensation and Perception (an undergraduate course), Cal State University East Bay
spring 2015
Invited Guest Lecturer for Visual Cognitive Neuroscience (a graduate course), UC Berkeley
fall 2014
Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning, UC Berkeley
Essay prize for Graduate Student Instructors who connect their effective teaching
strategies to research on how students learn
Read essay here
spring 2014
Teaching Effectiveness Award, UC Berkeley
Essay prize for Graduate Student Instructors who have made a significant contribution to teaching and learning in their departments through their identification of and response to a problem they have faced in their classes
(Awarded to 0.5% of all GSIs)
Read essay here
fall 2013, spring 2014
Invited Guest Lecturer on research methods and statistics for BROCA (an undergraduate cognitive science course), UC Berkeley
spring 2013
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
For exceptional achievements as an instructor for Cog Sci 1
(Awarded to 9% of all GSIs)
spring 2012
Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Cognitive Science (an undergraduate course), UC Berkeley
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 6.6/7
fall 2009, 2010
Graduate Student Instructor for Visual Perception and Sensitivity (a graduate course), UC Berkeley
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 6.5/7 (2010)
Overall Teaching Effectiveness (average rating): 5.5/7 (2009)
fall 2008
Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Music (an undergraduate course), Williams College