Teaching Awards
Information for Faculty Members | Information for Students
In 2012, Northwestern University and Weinberg College expect to honor some twenty faculty members and graduate students for excellence in teaching. The deadline for receipt of materials in the Dean's Office is Thursday, March 15, 2012. A single PDF file of the nomination materials for each candidate should be emailed to Steven Cole . Please feel free to address questions or comments to him as well.
University-Wide Awards
Up to four members of the university's tenure-line faculty will be named winners of the Charles Deering McCormick Professorships of Teaching Excellence in 2012. In addition, the Office of the Provost will select two Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturers/Clinical Professors. Finally, one member of the university's tenure-line faculty will be recognized as the Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professor.
Weinberg College Awards
Each year, five members of the college faculty, including two lecturers, are named as recipients of the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award. The most senior of the tenure-line faculty members so honored is designated as the winner of the E. LeRoy Hall Award; the award reserved for the two members of the lecturer faculty is called the Arts & Sciences Alumni Award.
The Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award is given annually to three students, one each from the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences and mathematics.
The Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research is given to a faculty member who has excelled in supervising laboratory work, independent study courses, honors work, summer research and the like.
The Weinberg College Community Building Award is given to the member of a faculty member who has made substantial contributions to the life of the college as an intellectual community.
Finally, beginning this year, three members of the College faculty will be named annually as recipients of The Weinberg College Award for Outstanding Freshman Advising.
In addition to the awards listed above, the college also has three endowed chairs that are reserved for distinguished undergraduate teachers, the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair, the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions, and the Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Professorship.
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
