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Published June 28, 2004; Category: ADMINISTRATION
Professors honored for teaching or mentoring
Several awards presented recently, some by the Dean of the Faculty Office and some
by the Graduate Student Council
and the Office of Graduate
Studies, recognize outstanding teaching - and outstanding teachers - at
Dartmouth.
According to the Dean of the Faculty Office this year's winner of the Jerome
Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching is the first individual to win the
award three times over the course of a career. Kenneth Shewmaker,
Professor of History, who first won the award in 1986, and won it again in
1996, was chosen by the senior class, which votes for a favorite teacher to be
honored at its Class Day activities. Shewmaker teaches the popular
"History 24: U.S. Foreign Relations to 1865" course and leads the
London Foreign Study Program (FSP) in history.
Allan Stam
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Laurence Davies
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Matthew Ayres
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George Cybenko
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Kenneth Shewmaker
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Benjamin Forest
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Katharine Conley
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Thomas Bickel
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Joyce DeLeo
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Winner of this year's J. Kenneth Huntington Memorial Award for Newly Tenured
Faculty was Benjamin Forest,
Assistant Professor of Geography. Forest teaches courses in race and
geography, and also led this year's FSP to Prague, which he will lead again in
spring 2006.
There were two winners of the J. Kenneth Huntington Memorial Award for Newly
Promoted Faculty: Allan Stam and Katharine
Conley. Stam is Associate Professor of Government, and Conley is
Associate Professor of French.
The Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize, which recognizes a newly-retired
faculty member to commemorate a career of contributions to undergraduate
teaching at Dartmouth, went to Thomas Bickel, who will retire this month after
37 years of service at the College. Bickel is a professor in the
department of mathematics.
Laurence
Davies, Research Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
won the Dean of the Faculty Teaching Award for Visiting and Adjunct
Faculty.
Also this year, a new award created by the Graduate Student Council to
recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty advisors was
presented for the first time. Matthew Ayres, Associate
Professor of Biological Sciences; Joyce DeLeo,
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology; and George
Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering Sciences, were
this year's winners. According to the Office of Graduate Studies, which
co-presented the awards, all three winners had multiple nominations from
graduate students who recognized them as outstanding mentors.
By JAMES DONNELLY
Wetterhahn Research Award
Recently the Dean of the Faculty Office announced the winner of the Karen
E.Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly
Achievement, which recognizes a newly tenured faculty member for outstanding
scholarship. Miles Blencowe, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, who
received his doctorate from University of London, Imperial College, was
recognized this year. His research include electronic and mechanical properties
of nanoscale systems, new techniques for ultra sensitive force and displacement
detection, quantum measurement, quantum information theory, and exploration of
quantum entanglement in condensed matter systems. His work has appeared in
Nature and the Journal of Applied Physics, among others.
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