Faculty awards honor exemplary work in undergraduate teaching and advising

Twenty-one University of Notre Dame
faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching, and three faculty and staff have been
honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost,
but recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student
nominations.

The Dockweiler Award winners are:

• Daniel A. Graff, history
• Alison K. Levey, Mendoza College of Business
  Dean’s Office
• Priscilla W. Wong, Campus Ministry

The 21 winners of Joyce teaching
excellence awards represent faculty who have had a profound influence on
undergraduate students through sustained exemplary teaching. Faculty committees
in each of seven disciplinary areas review the peer and student nominations.

The Joyce Award recipients are:

• Carl B. Ackermann, finance
• Brian M. Baker, chemistry and biochemistry
• Christine A. Becker, film, television, and
  theater
• Steven J. Brady, first year of
  studies/history
• Mark A. Caprio, physics
• Patrick J. Clauss, University Writing
  Program
• Kristen Collett-Schmitt, finance
• Giles E. Duffield, biological sciences
• David W. Gasperetti, German and Russian
  languages and literatures
• Dawn M. Gondoli, psychology
• Patrick N. Griffin, history
• Sara L. Maurer, English
• Joyelle McSweeney, English
• Michael T. Niemier, computer science and
  engineering
• Kathleen A. Peterson, chemistry and
  biochemistry
• Susan H. Rosato, political science
• Siiri S. Scott, film, television, and
  theater
• Thomas A. Stapleford, program of liberal
  studies
• Stephan A. Stolz, mathematics
• Alexandros A. Taflanidis, civil and
  environmental engineering and earth sciences
• Michelle A. Whaley, biological sciences

The undergraduate teaching award is
supported by a gift from the late Father Joyce’s classmates in the Class of
1937. This is the eighth year that advisers and student mentors are being
honored through an award supported by the Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable
Foundation.

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