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Excellence-in-teaching, advising awards announced 3:23 p.m., May 6, 2005--Four University of Delaware faculty members received excellence-in-teaching awards and one received an excellence-in-advising award on Honors Day, Friday, May 6. Two graduate teaching assistants also were honored for excellence in teaching. The awards are based primarily on student evaluations and are funded by the offices of the president and the provost. Excellence-in-teaching Four faculty members were given excellence-in-teaching awards: Michael Greenberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Paul Head, associate professor of music; Gerard Hoefling, assistant professor of psychology; and Amy Johnson, assistant professor of nursing. Each received $5,000, and bricks with their names inscribed will be placed in Mentors’ Circle. Mohsen Badiey, professor of marine science, who headed the selection committee, said this year there was a large pool of high-quality candidates. “Since the nominating system has been reformatted and students can go on the web to nominate faculty, we have received many more nominations. We appreciate students taking the time to make the nominations and encourage them to use the new system,” Badiey said. Michael Greenberg This marks the third time (1977, 1987, 2005) Greenberg has received UD’s excellence-in-teaching award. He also received the faculty adviser of the year award from the Minority Engineering Program in 1985. His research interests are aero- and hydrodynamics. He was selected for a pilot program in televised instruction in the 1970s and has televised other courses through the UD FOCUS program and through National Technological University. Greenberg is the author of four textbooks in the area of engineering mathematics, published by Prentice-Hall. A member of the UD faculty since 1969, he received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. Paul D. Head At UD, Head is director of choral studies and conducts the University of Delaware Chorale, Schola Cantorum and the Men’s Chorus. He also is director of music at the First Presbyterian Church in Newark. He serves on the executive board of the Delaware American Choral Directors Association and is the author of Case Studies in Music Education. A graduate of San Jose State University in California, Head received his master’s degree from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He joined the UD faculty in 1999. Hoefling, whose research interests are emotional and eating disorders, joined the UD faculty in 2003 from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. He also served an individual therapist for the Centre County (Pa.) Outpatient Clinic. At UD, Hoefling has developed and implemented a service-learning-based course and also supervises undergraduate research. He served as director of academic advising for the psychology department and created the Peer Advising Program. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Amy Nagorski Johnson Johnson specializes in the developmental care of high-risk infants, family-centered nursing care in the intensive care unit and nursing care of children and their families. She has worked as a pediatric, obstetrical and neonatal intensive care staff nurse. She received her bachelor’s degree from Madonna University in Michigan, her master’s degree from UD and her doctorate in nursing science from Catholic University of America. Excellence-in-advising Brian Hanson, associate professor of geography, received the excellence-in-advising award of $2,500, and a brick with his name will be placed in Mentors’ Circle. Hanson serves as associate chairperson of the department and is the director of UD’s Environmental Science Program. He joined the UD faculty in 1987 after working for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. His research interests focus on glacier-dynamics modeling and atmospheric modeling. A graduate of Moorhead State University in Minnesota, he received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota. Teaching assistant excellence-in-teaching awards The excellence-in-teaching awards for teaching assistants for $1,000 were given to Therese Rizzo, a graduate student in English, and Jorge Garcia, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering. Therese Rizzo A graduate of Rowan University in New Jersey, Rizzo came to UD in 2000. She first taught students with English as a second language through the University Writing Center, later taught an honors composition course for freshmen and then advanced composition and literature courses. She is working for her doctorate, and her field of interest is American literature and 19th Century female sentimentalists. Her adviser is Jean Pfaelzer, professor of English. Jorge Garcia Garcia is from Colombia and received his undergraduate degree from the Universidad of Javeriana in Bogata in 1996. He began his studies at UD in 1998, worked in industry for PMC-Sierra and then returned to UD get his doctorate, which was awarded this January. He has taught classes on electronic circuit analysis and synthesis and has been offered a visiting assistant professorship at UD for the next year. His research interests include the design of low-noise/low-power mixed-signal circuits. For more information on the awards, visit [www.udel.edu/teachingawards]. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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