| Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate
Teaching
Three Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching were presented during the 456th convocation on June 11, 1999. These awards, established in 1986, recognize and honor faculty members for their effective graduate teaching, including leadership in the development of programs and a special ability to encourage, influence, and work with graduate students. Nominations and recommendations for the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching are made by faculty and graduate students; selection is by a faculty committee appointed by the Provost.
Jonathan Abbatt, Associate Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences. Presentation by David B. Rowley, Associate Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences. Positive, enthusiastic, and demanding teacher; encouraging, supportive, and unselfish mentor; clear thinking and insightful researcher who has inspired a cadre of students of atmospheric chemistry to new heights.
Paul Friedrich, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics and the Committee on Social Thought. Presentation by Robert B. Pippin, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College. Extraordinarily talented teacher, whose intense dedication and commitment to his students, and the commitment and passion he thereby inspires, draw the very best from them and inspire his colleagues.
Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Committee on South Asian Studies, and the College. Presentation by Michael Dawson, Professor in the Department of Political Science and the College; Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Generous, far-ranging, and insightful mentor, who has communicated his enthusiasm for teaching and dedication to scholarship at the highest level to generations of graduate students from around the world.
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