Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1971
My goal is to be the very best undergraduate teacher that I can possibly be. In my mind that means instead of merely teaching content for students to memorize, I work to help students learn to think. I want them to think of images of proteins, cells, genes and not just of their definitions. I want them to be able to understand the mechanisms or causes of biological events and not just that events happen. I want them to be able to explain, in their own words, what they know.
The result of Dr. Creutz’s efforts? He won the University Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in 1995 and has been recognized as a Master Teacher of The College 1993-1997 and 2001-2006, and was recently recognized by ‘Ohio Magazine’ as one of the best 100 college teachers in the state of Ohio.
Biology and Medical Technology students contact him for advising.
C.Creutz and Leslie Neuendorf, A Curious New Observer: What a Classroom Tutor can and can't Provide Biology Students. Presented at the National Writing Across the curriculum Conference, May 2001
C.Creutz, The use of QuickTime Virtual Reality in the Classroom presented as a seminar sponsored by The Center for Teaching Excellence,
The University of Toledo, March 1999
C. Creutz and Becky Bolander, "Readings in Biology - A Course Emphasing How Biologists Think and Communicate" presented at Writing Across the Curriculum Third National Conference, February 1997
C.Creutz, "Equilibrium Dialysis experiment: An Interactive Simulation on the World Wide Web" presented at The Annual Meeting of The American Institute of Biological Sciences, August 1996
C.Creutz Use of Multimedia in classroom, Presented to Master Teachers of the College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Toledo, May 1995
C.Creutz, The Scatchard Plot: A Interactive Laboratory Simulation on the World Wide Web, September 1994
Michael Smith, C. Creutz and John Huang, "Detection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Nasopharyngeal Secretions by Shell Vial Technique, Journal of Clinical Microbiology 20 463, 1991
C.Creutz and Robert Kosinski, "BioBytes for the MAC-Dueling Alleles and Modeling Class",Hypercard software for the Macintosh computer,Submitted to Worth Publishers,INC. New York, NY November 1990
C.Creutz, Simulations in Biology, presented at the Hypermedia Mini conference of The Greater Toledo Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, November 1988
Creutz C. and M.Kwon Circular Statistics in FORTH. In "Proceedings of the 1986 Rochester Forth Conference", University of Rochester,Rochester, NY, 1986