Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

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 President's Council and reviewed by a selection committee appointed by the Office of the President. Members of the 2013 selection committee were: Anthony Atchley, Associate Dean for Research and Administration, College of Engineering; Ingrid M. Blood, Professor of Communications Sciences and Disorders, College of Health and Human Development, and chair of the Committee; Craig E. Cameron Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science; and Laurie Grobman, Professor of English and Women's Studies, Berks College, and 2012 Recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.

The 2013 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration is Janice C. Light, Hintz Family Chair in Children's Communicative Compentence, in the College of Health and Human Development.

Guidelines and criteria for nominations

Previous recipients of the President's Award