Eighteen University of Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and three faculty 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 from the College of Science is Kathleen Cannon, O.P., professional specialist and associate dean in the college.
Other winners include:
- Elly Brenner, associate professional specialist in the First Year of Studies
- Ann Marie R. Power, associate professional specialist in sociology
The 18 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.
The College of Science recipients are:
- Patricia L. Clark, chemistry and biochemistry
- Malgorzata Dobrowolska-Furdyna, physics
- J. Daniel Gezelter, chemistry and biochemistry
- James F. Johnson, chemistry and biochemistry
Other recipients include:
- Shane A. Corwin, finance
- Alan R. DeFrees, architecture
- James L. Fuehrmeyer, accountancy
- Mary M. Keys, political science
- Yahya C. Kurama, civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences
- Brian R. Levey, accountancy
- Cynthia K. Mahmood, anthropology
- Tadeusz R. Mazurek, classics
- Elizabeth S. Moore, marketing
- Mark W. Roche, German and Russian languages and literatures
- Ryan K. Roeder, aerospace and mechanical engineering
- Sebastian Rosato, political science
- Robert E. Sullivan, history
- Paul J. Weithman, philosophy
The undergraduate teaching award is supported by a gift from the late Father Joyce’s classmates in the Class of 1937. This is the seventh year that advisers and student mentors are being honored through an award supported by the Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable Foundation.
Originally published by at news.nd.edu on May 01, 2013.