Teaching Award Nomination Form

Want to know more about the award categories? Click here.

Who is eligible? Members of the tenure-line and lecturer faculty of Weinberg College are eligible. Visiting faculty are not. Graduate student teachers who taught in 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 are eligible. Graduate students who are teaching their own courses should also be nominated in this category.

Please note that all online nominations are due no later than Thursday, March 15, 2012.

Questions about eligibility? Please e-mail either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.

Award Nomination Details

I would like to nominate a:

Professor
Graduate Student

His or her name:

Department or program in which the course was offered:

Course title or designation (e.g. 3-13-0):

Quarter course was offered:

Fall
Winter
Spring
Summer

For which award are you nominating your teacher?

Nomination

Please tell us why this instructor deserves a teaching award. Statements of any length are welcome, but the Teaching Awards Committee finds discussions of the specific ways in which the nominee stands out as an excellent teacher to be most useful in its decisions. For an example of an effective nomination letter see How to Write a Persuasive Nomination.

I am willing to write a longer letter of nomination:

Yes
No

Information about yourself

Graduation year

Your name (required)

Your e-mail address (required)

Honors and Achievements

Professor Tobin Marks, a world leader in organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, solar energy, photovoltaics and nanotechnology, received the 2012 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.

Weinberg professor Kenneth Seeskin has won the National Jewish Book Award. The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, co-edited by Seeskin, received first place in the anthologies and collections category.

Mentions in the Media

The Life, Work of Poet Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska's longtime translator, Slavic languages and comparative literature professor Clare Cavanagh, speaks with PBS Newshour about the poet's life and work. Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996. pbs.org February 2, 2012 Full story

Fingerprints of a Monster Quake
How to plan for earthquakes if seismic activity wanders around the map? ... Northwestern University geophysicist Seth Stein argues that there won't be any future earthquakes at New Madrid. He has gathered GPS data that show no pressure developing in the Earth's surface there; hence, he argues, no energy is building for a convulsion. He believes mid-continent seismicity moves around, so that as the New Madrid zone "turns off," future quakes may happen elsewhere. washingtonpost.com January 10, 2012 Full story