Six received Distinguished Teaching Awards
Four faculty members and two graduate students have been selected for the Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s highest honor for excellence in the classroom.
This year’s winners are Richard H. Minear, professor of History; John M. Gerber, professor, Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences; Wilmore C. Webley, assistant professor, Microbiology; J. Zane Barlow, lecturer in Biology; and teaching assistants Vincent Cee, Music and Dance, and Shabnam Beheshti, Mathematics and Statistics.
The faculty winners were feted at the Celebration of Teaching dinner on April 15. The graduate student recipients will be honored at a luncheon hosted by the Graduate School. All six will be recognized during Commencement ceremonies.
Established in 1962, the Distinguished Teaching Award is regarded as the campus’s most prestigious prize for classroom instruction. The honor includes a plaque and a monetary award of $3,500 for faculty members and $2,000 for teaching assistants. The names of winners are also inscribed on permanent displays in the Lincoln Campus Center and the recipients are recognized during Undergraduate Commencement.
This year, a fourth faculty award was added by Provost Charlena Seymour to acknowledge the contributions of non-tenure track instructors.
Nominations for the award are made by current and former students to a committee of faculty, undergraduates and previous graduate student winners of the prize. The committee makes the award selections.
April 28, 2008.
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