Excellence in Teaching Awards given to three professors, four TAs
News Brief
On Tuesday the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering, along with the Student Council, announced the winners of the 2005 Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Sonia Ryang of the anthropology department was awarded StuCo's George E. Own Teaching Award. The award is given annually to a faculty member in either the Krieger School or the Whiting School who displays a devotion to teaching undergraduates.
The recipients of the Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award will be named at Commencement on May 26. The award seeks to honor excellence in teaching and will be given to one faculty member from both the Krieger School and Whiting School.
Daniel Deudney of the political science department and Stephen Dixon of the writing seminars department were selected as nominees for the Alumni Association award from the Krieger School.
Larry Aronhime, a professor in the Center for Leadership Education, was the Whiting School nominee.
Noah Cowan, a professor of mechanical engineering, was named winner of the William H. Huggins Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given to a faculty member who displays excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Whiting School of Engineering.
The Robert B. Pond Senior Excellence in Teaching Award was awarded to Jason Eisner of the computer science department.
Also announced were the Teaching Assistant Awards.
Boncho Dragiyski of romance languages and literatures department, Aili Zheng of the German department, and Daniel Levine of the political science department were recipients of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Assistant Awards.
The George M.L. Sommerman Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, which is annually granted to an outstanding graduate teaching assistant in the Whiting School, was given this year to Gregory Christopherson, a graduate student in the materials science department.