Teaching Associate Professor Elaine Bohórquez is an innovator. As the core professor for the Physiology Graduate Program at NC State, she prepares students for rewarding careers in medicine, dentistry and pharmacology. With team-based learning at the forefront, she strives to create courses that are tailored to NC State’s unique student body. 

Such courses require innovative teaching to match. Bohórquez has not only met this demand but exceeded it, leveraging Top Hat — NC State’s student engagement tool — in ways that not only enhance student learning but set a precedent for effective use of the tool at NC State. In March 2020, she was chosen as a finalist for Top Hat’s Most Innovative Educator Award. NC State caught up with Bohórquez to discuss her path to the nomination. 

Read the interview in DELTA.