RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR EXCELLENCE

Recipients of this year's teaching-advising awards stand in Mentors' Circle, where bricks bearing
their names will be placed. From left are Mary Ann McLane, medical technology; Paul Amer, computer
and information sciences; Daniel Callahan, history; Sandra Fields, business administration; and
Steven Hastings, food and resource economics. Not pictured are Eric Rise, criminal justice; and Gary Allison, education.

Seven UD faculty members will be recognized for outstanding excellence in teaching and advising on Honors Day, May 3. Their names also will be added to the inscribed bricks in Mentors' Circle, which pays tribute to all recipients of these awards.

This year's excellence-in-teaching awards have been presented to four faculty members–

Gary Allison, assistant professor of education; Paul Amer, professor of computer and information sciences; Daniel Callahan, professor of history; and Mary Ann McLane, assistant professor of medical technology.

These awards are sponsored by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation.

Three faculty--Sandra Fields, instructor in business administration; Steven Hastings, professor of food and resource economics; and Eric Rise, associate professor of criminal justice--will receive the excellence-in-advising awards, given to emphasize the importance of academic advising, to recognize and reward excellent faculty advisers and to encourage faculty to devote more time and attention to becoming effective advisers.

Two graduate teaching assistants, Arthur DiFurian in art history and William Corbitt in foreign languages and literatures, also will be honored for excellence in teaching.

The excellence-in-teaching recipients are selected primarily on the basis of student evaluations and nominations. For the 2001-2002 awards, the Committee on Student and Faculty Honors reviewed approximately 875 nominations for the excellence-in-teaching awards and 132 nominations for the excellence-in-advising awards.

Photo by Kathy Flickinger