Matt Gewolb, doctoral candidate in Higher and Postsecondary Education, is this year's recipient of the Anna Neumann Supporting Student Research Award. Spearheaded by Dr. Aimee LaPointe Terosky (HPSE 2005) and supported over the years by Professor Neumann's former students and HPSE supporters, the award recognizes and seeks to advance promising dissertation research on faculty careers and college teaching and learning. 

Matt’s research interests deal with law school teaching and learning. At the moment, he is particularly focused on how and why faculty members seek to create linkages between the subject matters of their teaching and students' existing knowledge, experience and values—as well as how faculty members learn to do so and why they think creating such linkages is important.

Matt is currently the Associate Dean and Vice President for Institutional Strategy and General Counsel at New York Law School.