Volume 17, Number 5     Summer 2008

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Departments and programs from across campus have reported the following recipients of teaching awards:

Department of English

The Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching went to graduate strudent David Coley.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Graduate students Leonard Demoranville and Mara Dougherty were this year's recipients of Carl L. Rollinson Teaching Awards.

Department of Kinesiology

Graduate Students Alexander Hooke and Laura Levin were awarded the F. Daniel Wagner Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Sarah Camhi was named Kinesiology Outstanding TA.

Department of Sociology

John Michael Ryan was selected as the BSOS Outstanding Graduate Instructor.

Jeff Lucas was named BSOS Outstanding Faculty Instructor.

John Pease received the Regents Outstanding Mentorship Award.

Nihal Celik and Brian Ward were named outstanding teaching assistants.

Stephen Elkin, Department of Government and Politics

Howard Lasnik, Department of Linguistics

Theodore Jacobson, Department of Physics

Melanie Killen, Department of Human Development

John Haltiwanger, Department of Economics

Distinguished Scholar-Teachers will be called upon to participate in one or more programs for faculty or students in which they will share their expertise in establishing productive research programs and in developing successful teaching methods and approaches. They will also make a public presentation on a topic within their scholarly discipline. The award carries an honorarium of $5000 to support the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher's professional activities. For more information, call the Office of the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at (301) 405-2509.