This year’s winners of awards for excellence in teaching and advising were announced on April 24, during a recognition dinner held in Rome Ballroom.
The event was hosted by Provost Peter J. Nicholls, Veronica Makowsky, vice provost, and Keith Barker, associate vice provost.
The award recipients are:
First Year Experience
Joseph Briody, Student Development & Learning
Outstanding First Year Experience Teaching Award
Carl Dean Jr., Center for Academic Programs
Outstanding First Year Experience Teaching Award
Advising
Jennifer Murphy, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Outstanding Student Advisement and Advocacy Award
Morty Ortega, Natural Resources Management & Engineering
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
2008 Teaching Fellows
Robin Bogner, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Joseph Madaus, Educational Psychology
2008-09 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Steven Todd, Philosophy
Jason Schmink, Chemistry
The John T. Szarlan Memorial Outstanding FYE Mentor Award
Robert Gendreau, Health Care Management
Benjamin Gruenbaum, Psychology
Additional faculty members who have been recognized for excellence were acknowledged during the event.
Honors Program
Steven Wisensale, Human Development & Family Studies
Honors Council Faculty Member of the Year, 2008
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Robert Milvae, Animal Science
UCANRAA Excellence in Teaching Award
Robert Johnston, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Donald M. Kinsman Award for Excellence in CANR/RHSA
Daniel Civco, Natural Resources Management & Engineering
National Food & Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College & University Teaching Award
School of Business
Andrew Rosman, Accounting
Outstanding MSA Professor, 2007
David Papandria, Accounting
Outstanding Undergraduate Accounting Professor, 2007
John Phillips, Accounting
Graduate Teaching Award
Sulin Ba, Operations & Information Management
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Jan Stallaert, Operations & Information Management
Undergraduate Teaching Award
Narasimhan Srinivasan, Marketing
Teaching Innovation Award
School of Engineering
Robert Magnusson, Electrical & Computer Engineering
ECE Outstanding Teaching Award
Robert McCartney, Computer Science & Engineering
CSE Outstanding Teaching Award
Michael Renfro, Mechanical Engineering
ME Outstanding Teaching Award
Norman Garrick, Civil & Environmental Engineering
C.R. Klewin Inc. Award for Excellence in Teaching
Howard Epstein, Civil & Environmental Engineering
C.R. Klewin Inc. Award for Excellence in Teaching
School of Fine Arts
Kathryn Myers, Art & Art History
Outstanding Faculty Award
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Olivier Morand, Economics
Grillo Family Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Richard Hiskes, Political Science
Alumni Association Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007
Michelle Williams, Psychology
Alumni Association Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, 2007
Juliet Lee, Molecular & Cell Biology
Blue Skye Foundation TNE Fellow Award
Matthew Cecil, Mathematics
UConn Alpha Lambda Delta Chapter, Post Doctoral Fellow Instructor of the Year, 2007-08
School of Nursing
Cheryl Beck, Nursing
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, 2007
School of Pharmacy
Gerald Gianutsos, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Teacher of the Year
School of Medicine
Yvonne Grimm-Jorgensen
2007 Charles N. Loeser Award
Robert Bona
2007 Kaiser Permanente Award
Joseph Grasso
Bruce Koeppen
Dale Matheson
Christine Niekrash
Richard Zeff
Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007, First Year Basic Science Courses
Glenn Affleck
Robert Bona
Dale Matheson
Richard Zeff
Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007, Second Year Basic Science Courses
AAUP
Joseph Madaus, Educational Psychology
AAUP Teaching Promise Award, 2007
Evelyn Simien, Political Science
AAUP Teaching Promise Award, 2007
Joseph Madaus, Educational Psychology
AAUP Teaching Innovation Award, 2007
Pamela Bedore, English
AAUP Teaching Promise Award, 2008
Thomas DeFranco, Mathematics
AAUP Teaching Innovation Award, 2008
