Shelley Brown of the Department of Sociology and Political Science and Michael Olsen of the Department of Foreign Languages are recipients of the 2025-2026 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Innovative Teaching. This award recognizes a recent significant innovation in undergraduate teaching. Professor Brown is recognized for integrating ePortfolios into internship courses, AI Fact Check assignments into introductory sociology, and a real-world theory application project titled Theory in the Wild. Dr. Olsen is recognized for the development and implementation of a hybrid Latin American Culture and Civilization course (SPAN 2550) that explores the culture and cultural influence of Latin America through music.