The President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration
The President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration is given to a full-time member of the faculty of the University who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching and research or creative accomplishments, and service. The award was established in 1996 to recognize faculty members who have excelled in all three areas of their professions and consists of a specially-designed certificate and a cash gift in the amount of $3,000.
Nominations were solicited from the academic deans and reviewed by a selection committee appointed by the Office of the President. Members of the 2008 selection committee are: Renata S. Engel, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering; R. Kevin Grigsby, Vice Dean for Faculty and Administrative Affairs in the College of Medicine, and chair of the Committee; Timothy W. Simpson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, and 2007 Recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration; and Lakshman Yapa, Professor of Geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and 2006 Recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.
The award will be presented to the 2008 recipient at the Faculty/Staff Awards Luncheon which will be held on Monday, March 24, 2008 in the Ballroom of The Nittany Lion Inn.
Guidelines and criteria for nominations
Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute in the College of the Liberal Arts, was selected the 2008 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.
Previous recipients of the President's Award include:
2007 - Timothy W. Simpson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Design, College of Engineering
2006 - Lakshman Yapa, Professor of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
2005 - Loukas N. Kalisperis, Professor of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
2004 - Susan M. McHale, Professor of Human Development, College of Health and Human Development
2003 - Arthur C. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
2002 - Karen Linn Bierman, Director of Children, Youth, and Families Consortium, College of the Liberal Arts
2001 - Steven H. Zarit, Professor of Human Development and Assistant Director of the Gerontology Center, College of Health and Human Development
2000 - Gary W. Peterson, Professor of Soil and Land Resources, College of Agricultural Sciences
1999 - Ann C. Crouter, Professor of Human Development, College of Health and Human Development
1998 - Peter C. Jurs, Professor of Chemistry, Eberly College of Science
1997 - Murry R. Nelson, Professor of Education and American Studies, College of Education
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