94-04-21  Outstanding Teachers From All Career Levels are Honored With University-wide Awards

OUTSTANDING TEACHERS FROM ALL CAREER LEVELS
ARE HONORED WITH UNIVERSITY-WIDE AWARDS

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 21 -- Fifteen University of
Virginia faculty members and five graduate teaching assistants and
fellows have been selected as winners of 1993-94 University-wide
awards honoring dedicated and outstanding teaching.
     They were chosen from among dozens of nominations, many with
in-depth testimonials, submitted by students and faculty
colleagues, said Richard P. Warner, associate professor of drama
and chair of the University's teaching-awards committee.  "Choosing
was extremely difficult because there are clearly so many committed
teachers at all stages of their careers here," he said.
     The awards finalists' own statements of their teaching
philosophies and aims have been so instructive and impressive in
recent years that a selection will be available through the U.Va.
Teaching Resource Center to anyone who would like to use them,
Warner said.  "All of the nominees have been models in different
ways showing what good teaching is all about."
     The 1993-94 award-winners include:
     o  Robert F. Bruner, professor of business administration, and
Robert L. Vickery, professor of architecture:  co-winners of the
Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.  The annual award
is given to a faculty member who has excelled as a classroom
teacher, shown unusual concern for students and made significant
contributions to the life of the University over a period of at
least a decade.  The co-winners will each receive a $1,500 prize.
     o  Tanya H. Furman, assistant professor of environmental
sciences:  the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award.  The award,
given to an assistant professor of demonstrated talent and skill,
carries a $2,500 stipend with $1,500 in additional support, and
offers a semester research assignment.
     Winners of All-University Outstanding Teacher Awards, each
carrying a $2,000 cash prize and recognizing excellence in teaching
and the ability to inspire and motivate students, include:
     o  Warren T. Byrd, associate professor of landscape
architecture
     o  Bascom S. Deaver Jr., professor of physics
     o  Robert T. Denomme, professor of French
     o  Jeffrey L. Hantman, associate professor of anthropology
     o  Susan E. Perry, assistant professor of commerce 
     Winners of the All-University Outstanding Graduate Teaching
Assistant Awards, each carrying a $1,000 prize and recognizing
excellence in teaching and contributions to the teaching mission of
the University, are:
     o Neil L. Arditi, English
     o Thomas J. Bensky, physics
     o  Robert T. Burrus Jr., economics
     This year for the first time, two teaching awards were made to
residents or fellows in health sciences.  Winners receiving a
$1,000 cash award are:
     o  Reid B. Adams, M.D.
     o Carlos F. Gomez, M.D.
     Lilly Teaching Fellow Awards support six assistant professors
each year in efforts to develop excellent undergraduate teaching
skills.  Working with specialists from inside and outside the
University throughout the academic year and with a senior  faculty
mentor, they develop a new course in their field or substantially
revise one.  Winners of the fellowships for the coming academic
year are:
     o Teresa B. Culver, assistant professor of civil engineering
     o Janet R. Horne, assistant professor of French
     o Kirk A. Martini, assistant professor of architecture
     o Timothy S. Prinz, assistant professor of government and
foreign affairs
     o Kathryn M. Rohe, assistant professor of drama
     o Robert M. Sellers, assistant professor of psychology
     Earlier this year Paul M. Gaston, professor of history, was
nominated by the awards committee and became one of 11 college and
university faculty members statewide chosen as a winner of a State
Council of Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award.  The annual
award, funded by the General Assembly and honoring outstanding
faculty members for their contributions to their students, their
disciplines and the public, carries a $5,000 prize.
     For additional information about the U.Va. teaching awards,
contact Mair de Voursney, assistant provost, at (804) 924-6251.
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                                                   April 20, 1994

Karen A. Castle
University News Office
kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
(804) 924-7116


[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Thu, 21 Apr 94 11:19:19 EDT]