Recognition for excellent teachers, advisers

Seven faculty members received awards in recognition of their outstanding work in teaching and advising during the University’s May 4 Honors Day celebration. Two teaching assistants also received awards for excellence.

This year’s excellence-in-teaching awards, based primarily on student evaluations, were presented to Scott E. Caplan, associate professor of communication; Chika Inoue, instructor in foreign languages and literatures; Vincent T. Martin, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures; and Jack A. Puleo, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. The winners receive $5,000 each, have their portraits hung in Morris Library for five years and have their names inscribed on bricks in UD’s Mentors’ Circle.

The excellence-in-undergraduate-academic-advising awards, an honor also based largely on student evaluations, went to Deborah M. Alvarez, assistant professor of English; James J. Magee, chairperson of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and professor of political science; and David W. Smith, associate professor of biological sciences. Each receives a check for $2,500 and is honored with an inscribed brick in Mentors’ Circle.

In addition to the faculty awards, two graduate assistants, Jon R. Beckham, a mathematics doctoral student, and Joshua M. Calhoun, a doctoral student in English, won $1,500 awards for their teaching.

See [www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2007/may/excellence051107.html] for more about this year’s winners. See [www.udel.edu/teachingawards/ flash_index.html] for more about the annual awards.