Penn Arts & Sciences Announces 2019 Teaching Award Recipients

Apr 5, 2019

Steven J. Fluharty, Dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, and Paul Sniegowski, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 awards for distinguished teaching in the School. The winners will be honored at a School-wide reception on Thursday, May 2, at 4:00 p.m. in 200 College Hall.

IRA H. ABRAMS MEMORIAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING
Josephine Park, Professor of English
Masao Sako, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

DENNIS M. DETURCK AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN TEACHING
Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor of English

DEAN'S AWARD FOR MENTORSHIP OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Ivan Dmochowski, Alan MacDiarmid Term Professor of Chemistry

DEAN'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING BY AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Michele Margolis, Assistant Professor of Political Science

DEAN'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING BY AFFILIATED FACULTY
William Ashmanskas, Senior Lecturer, Physics and Astronomy
Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve, Senior Lecturer, English and Cinema and Media Studies

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING IN UNDERGRADUATE AND POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS
Nakia Rimmer, Associate Director of Undergraduate Mathematics

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING IN PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Angela Duckworth, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology

DEAN'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING BY GRADUATE STUDENTS
Natalie Amleshi, English
Phoebe Askelson, Chemistry
Sumitra Badrinathan, Political Science
Ryan Budnick, Linguistics
Dana Cypress, English
Meghan Garrity, Political Science
Ramey Mize, History of Art
Brian Reese, Philosophy
Jordan Rogers, Ancient History
Carmen Torre Perez, Romance Languages

To read more about the recipients, click here.

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