L&S faculty take home eight Distinguished Teaching Awards

Each year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence. This year, the committee selected ten outstanding faculty — eight who teach in the College of Letters & Science.

Congratulations to the winners on this outstanding achievement! 

To read more about the recipients and their work, see: http://www.news.wisc.edu/17913

• Emily Auerbach, professor of liberal studies and the arts and English, Van Hise Outreach Award
• Richard Avramenko, assistant professor of political science and integrated liberal studies, William H. Kiekhofer Award
• Donald Davis, associate professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award
• Judith Leavitt, Ruth Bleier WARF Professor of medical history, history of science and women’s studies and UW Foundation Chair Rupple-Bascom Professor, Chancellor’s Award
• Mahesh Mahanthappa, assistant professor of chemistry, Emil H. Steiger Award
• Kirin Narayan, professor of anthropology, Chancellor’s Award
  
• Antonia Schleicher, professor of African languages and literature, Chancellor’s Award
• Tracy Schroepfer, assistant professor, School of Social Work, Chancellor’s Award

The recipients will receive their awards at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center.

News via University Communications

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New year brings in awards, accolades

Here's a round-up of all of the recent awards and honors to faculty, staff and students in L&S:

• Four L&S faculty receive development grants
• Bement wins Kellet Mid-Career Award
  
• Anderson receives National Ground Water Association Award
• Five classified staff members receive Excellence Awards 
• Four from Hebrew Department receive Teaching Awards
• Schatzberg, Nyhart win scholarly publication awards
• Severn wins 2010 Presidential Honorary Membership for work with DARE
• Hall, von Schneidemessner named Fellows of Dictionary Society 
  

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Schatzberg, Nyhart win scholarly publication awards

The Department of the History of Science is pleased to announce two recent scholarly awards to faculty.

Professor Eric Schatzberg won the 2008 Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. This prize is granted for the best article published during the preceding three years in the Society's journal, Technology and Culture.

This is Schatzberg's second Usher Prize; he is the first person in the award's 48-year history to receive it twice. He previously received the prize for his 2006 article Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930.

Professor Lynn Nyhart has won the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize for the best book in the history of science published by the University of Chicago Press in the previous two years, for Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (2009).

Nyhart has also been elected Vice President of the History of Science Society and will serve as President in 2012 and 2013. 

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History of Science, Religious Studies Program relocate

The Department of History of Science moved in August from the Social Science Building to the Bradley Memorial Building on Linden Drive. 

They share the building with the IES Department of Culture, and History and Environment (CHE).  These departments have compatible teaching and research missions along with the Department of Medical History and Bioethics which is located nearby in the Medical Sciences Center.  Co-location of these three departments will provide an opportunity to further develop an academic synergy that was previously not feasible.     

The L&S Religious Studies Program also moved in August from Ingraham Hall to the 7th floor of the Social Science Building to better meet their growing needs.  The main office is located in room 7143.  

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Nyhart continues tradition of leadership in the History of Science Society

Professor Lynn Nyhart of the Department of the History of Science has been elected to the Executive Committee of the History of Science Society.

Nyhart will serve as Vice President for 2010 and 2011, and then President for 2012 and 2013. 

The History of Science Society is the main English-language-based professional society for historians of science. 

UW History of Science Professors have a strong and distinguished tradition of being elected the society president.  Most recent presidents include, Ron Numbers (2000-2001) and before that, Dave Lindberg (1994-95). 

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