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:

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No

Information about yourself

Graduation year

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Honors and Achievements

Physics and Astronomy professor Jim Sauls has been awarded the Bardeen Prize for his work on superconductivity.

Art Theory & Practice MFA candidate Rachel Niffenegger has been accepted into the two-year, De Ateliers residency program in Amsterdam.

Sarah Jacoby, assistant professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded an ACLS Grant for 2012-2013.

The History Department's Dyan Elliott and Melissa Macauley were offered fellowships at the National Humanities Center for 2012-2013.

Krista Thompson, associate professor of Art History, has been awarded an ACLS fellowship for 2012-2013.

Chemistry professor Tobin Marks received the 2012 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.

Mentions in the Media

Michelle Obama, Paradox
"Michelle Obama is a genuine paradox," said Darlene Clark Hine, a professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Hine's lecture, part of a black studies conference at the university last week, argued that the first lady is a "transformative, liberationist" figure -- despite her interest in domestic issues and the long list of magazine cover stories focused on topics such as Obama's approach to motherhood or the importance of healthful eating. washingtonpost.com April 16, 2012 Full story

Seismic hazards: Japan earthquake and other tectonic surprises challenge scientific assumptions
"It's almost impossible to make a sensible earthquake hazard map," argues Northwestern University geophysicist Seth Stein.... "We call this the 'whack-a-mole model' of earthquake hazard mapping. The mole will come up the same hole that it went down," Stein said. And that's rarely the case. washingtonpost.com March 9, 2012 Full story