Teaching professor and associate chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dorina Kosztin has been a faculty member at the University of Missouri Columbia since 2001. Her main interests include improving teaching in large enrollment introductory physics courses by implementing active learning techniques and using evidence based teaching practices, developing online physics courses with labs, providing TA training and teacher professional development, creating high school curriculum for 9th grade physics, and outreach. For her work she received the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (2008) and the President’s Award for Innovative Teaching (2014).