Teaching Award Nomination Information for Students
The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences welcomes nominations from students for the following teaching awards. You can use our online nomination form to do this (please note that all online nominations are due no later than Thursday, March 15, 2012). The descriptions below provide details about each kind of teaching award. Please also consult the list of previous winners as teachers who have won within the past five years are ineligible. If you have questions about the nomination process, please contact one of the Student Advisory Board Vice Presidents, either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards
Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Weinberg College Community Building Award
Weinberg College Award for Outstanding Freshman Advising
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Each year the College selects three members of the tenure-line faculty to receive Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards. The most senior of these recipients is designated as the winner of the E. LeRoy Hall Award. In addition, two more Distinguished Teaching Awards, designated as Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Awards, are reserved for members of the lecturer faculty . A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $5000.
All tenure-line faculty members and full-time lecturers who have taught in the College for a minimum of two years are eligible. Excellence as an undergraduate instructor is the primary criterion of the award. Contributions to curricular innovation and undergraduate life, perhaps as an advisor, program director, or director of undergraduate studies, are also valued by the Committee. Faculty members who have won a Weinberg College teaching award or a Weinberg College or NU teaching professorship in the past five years are ineligible for these awards.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is Thursday, March 15, 2012. For questions, please contact either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards
Each year the College selects three teaching assistants to receive Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards, one per Division. A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $1000.
Any graduate student who has carried out the duties of teaching assistant or lecturer in 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 is eligible. Previous winners are ineligible.
Excellence in work with undergraduates is the primary criterion of the award.The deadline for submitting a nomination is Thursday, March 15, 2012. For questions, please contact either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The Weinberg College Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Outstanding Research Mentor. Students should nominate faculty members who have excelled in supervising laboratory work, independent study courses, honors work, summer research and the like. The award carries a stipend of $5000.
Nominations should make specific reference to the ways in which the professor made the research experience a success.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is Thursday, March 15, 2012. For questions, please contact either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
Weinberg College Community Building Award
The Weinberg College Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Distinguished Leaders in Undergraduate Community. The award recognizes faculty who foster a sense of community both inside and outside the classroom and who make students feel valued as members of the Northwestern intellectual community. Nominations should include letters from students describing the contributions to community made by the nominated faculty member and a list of any activities that the nominee may have undertaken for Northwestern undergraduates (advising, work with student groups, etc.). The award carries a stipend of $5000.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is Thursday, March 15, 2012. For questions, please contact either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
Weinberg College Award for Outstanding Freshman Advising
Each year the College selects three members of the faculty to receive the Weinberg College Award for Outstanding Freshman Advising. Candidates must demonstrate approachability and availability throughout the academic year, sensitivity to students' needs, and deep knowledge of College and University requirements, possibilities, and resources. Candidates must also demonstrate a willingness and ability to guide students in their exploration of possible academic paths and to instill confidence and independence.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is Thursday, March 15, 2012. For questions, please contact either Emily DuBois or Christina Alexander.
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
