Twenty-one University of Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three faculty and staff have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, but recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations.
The Dockweiler Award winners are:
- Daniel A. Graff, history
- Alison K. Levey, Mendoza College of Business Dean’s Office
- Priscilla W. Wong, Campus Ministry
The 21 winners of Joyce teaching excellence awards represent faculty who have had a profound influence on undergraduate students through sustained exemplary teaching. Faculty committees in each of seven disciplinary areas review the peer and student nominations. Eleven of this year’s winners are from the College of Arts and Letters:
- Christine A. Becker, film, television, and theater
- Steven J. Brady, first year of studies/history
- Patrick J. Clauss, University Writing Program
- David W. Gasperetti, German and Russian languages and literatures
- Dawn M. Gondoli, psychology
- Patrick N. Griffin, history
- Sara L. Maurer, English
- Joyelle McSweeney, English
- Susan H. Rosato, political science
- Siiri S. Scott, film, television, and theater
- Thomas A. Stapleford, program of liberal studies
Other recipients are:
- Carl B. Ackermann, finance
- Brian M. Baker, chemistry and biochemistry
- Mark A. Caprio, physics
- Kristen Collett-Schmitt, finance
- Giles E. Duffield, biological sciences
- Michael T. Niemier, computer science and engineering
- Kathleen A. Peterson, chemistry and biochemistry
- Stephan A. Stolz, mathematics
- Alexandros A. Taflanidis, civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences
- Michelle A. Whaley, biological sciences
The undergraduate teaching award is supported by a gift from the late Father Joyce’s classmates in the Class of 1937. This is the eighth year that advisers and student mentors are being honored through an award supported by the Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable Foundation.
Originally published by news.nd.edu on May 05, 2014.
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