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University Teaching Awards
Each year the University recognizes faculty, staff and students for outstanding teaching. The University Committee on Teaching Awards strongly encourages you to nominate deserving faculty members and graduate teaching assistants for distinguished teaching awards. Nominations with specific examples and stories that display the nominee’s care for students, mentorship, and/or effective use of classroom methods resonate with the selection committee.
What does your department do to nominate teachers for the university-wide teaching awards? We need a greater diversity of candidates from all over campus. Some departments get behind one faculty member and ask students to submit letters. Some departments write one combined nomination letter from the chair. Many departments have no plan. Please think about how you recognize our hard-working, effective teachers.
The nomination deadline for awards is on October 1 of each year. Nominees will be notified in the winter, and awards will be presented at a banquet with the University Chancellor each spring.
2017 Award Recipients
Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jane Thrailkill, department of English and comparative literature, College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction
Brian Rayala, department of family medicine, School of Medicine
Marilyn Ghezzi, School of Social Work
Jaime Arguello, School of Information and Library Science
Gavin Smith, department of city and regional planning, College of Arts and Sciences
Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Mohammad Jarrahi, School of Information and Library Science
Jennifer Gates-Foster, department of classics, College of Arts and Sciences
Lillie Searles, department of biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Enrique Neblett, department of psychology and neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
Ken Lohmann, department of biology, College of Arts and Sciences
J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students
William Race, department of classics, College of Arts and Sciences
Jillian Dempsey, department of chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement
Gary Pielak, department of chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences; department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine
William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Teaching
Charlie Wiss, department of psychology and neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
Johnston Teaching Excellence Awards
Lorraine Cramer, department of microbiology and immunology, School of Medicine
Marsha Penner, department of psychology and neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences
Chapman Family Teaching Awards
Corey Johnson, department of biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Paul Friga, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Banu Gokariksel, department of geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants
Will Begley, department of classics, College of Arts and Sciences
Priscilla Vaz, department of geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Zeliha Kilic, department of mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences
Tamara Fakhoury, department of philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Adam Smith, department of psychology and neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences