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Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award

This award is given to teachers who are exceptional in their quality of teaching, knowledge of subject, interest in students and availability to them, impact on the nominator's personal educational experience, and influence within Auburn University. Teachers are nominated by students, alumni, and colleagues. Recipients are honored each year and each receive an honorarium award of $1,000 and a plaque.

The 2007 recipients of this award are Mark Byrne, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Elizabeth Brestan Knight, Associate Professor and Lanier Professor of Psychology; and Phillip Zenor, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics.

Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:

2007
Mark Byrne: Engineering (Chemical Engineering)
Elizabeth Brestan Knight: Liberal Arts (Psychology)
Phillip Zenor: Science and Mathematics (Mathematics & Statistics)

2006
Dr. Brian Gibson: Business (Aviation Management)
Dr. Sheri Brock: Education (Health and Human Performance)
Ms. Paula Peek: Human Sciences (Consumer Affairs)

2004-05
Jack B. Brown: Mathematics and Statistics
William J. Moar: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Christine Sundermann: Biological Sciences

2003-04
Roger Lien: Agriculture (Poultry Science)
Pamela V. Ulrich: Human Sciences (Consumer Affairs)

2002-03
James E. Brown: Agriculture (Horticulture)
Steven P. Brown: Liberal Arts (Political Science)
Margaret Fitch-Hauser: Liberal Arts (Communication & Journalism)
Susan Hubbard: Human Sciences (Nutrition & Food Science)
Nels Madsen: Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
Gary Waters: Business (Finance)

2001-02
Louise Katainen: Liberal Arts (Foreign Languages & Literatures)
Russell B. Muntifering: Agriculture (Animal & Dairy Sciences)
Marilyn Read: Human Sciences (Consumer Affairs)
Douglas Robinson: Sciences & Mathematics (Biological Sciences)
David Williams: Agriculture (Horticulture)

2000-01
Clarence D. Brown, Jr.: Education (Rehabilitation & Special Education)
Wayne E. Clark: Agriculture (Entomology & Plant Pathology)
Lenda Jo Anderson Connell: Human Sciences (Consumer Affairs)
William Hardy, Jr.: Agriculture (Agricultural Economics)
Kelley D. Jolley: Liberal Arts (Philosophy)
Mary T. Mendonca: Sciences & Mathematics (Biological Sciences)

1999-00
Donna Bohanan: Liberal Arts (History)
James T. Bradley: Sciences & Mathematics (Biological Sciences)
Dale A. Coleman: Agriculture (Animal & Dairy Sciences)
Robert E. Keith, Jr.: Human Sciences (Nutrition and Food Science)
Timothy A. Kramer : Engineering (Civil Engineering)
Judith V. Lechner: Education (Educational Foundations, Leadership & Technology)

1998-99
Robert Boyd: Sciences & Mathematics (Botany & Microbiology)
Wayne Brewer: Agriculture (Entomology)
Amy Campbell: Business (Accounting)
John Cressler: Engineering (Electrical Engineering)
Norman Doorenbos: Pharmacy (Pharmacal Sciences)
Sareen Gropper: Human Sciences (Nutrition & Food Science)
Marie Kraska: Education (Vocational & Adult Education)
Renate Latimer: Liberal Arts (Foreign Languages & Literatures)
Steven Swaim: Veterinary Medicine (Scott-Ritchey)
Robert Tufts: Forestry (Forestry)
Malissa Williams: Nursing (Nursing)

1997-98
Lorraine R. Gardiner: Business (Management)
Dean H. Gjerstad: Forestry (Forestry)
Elizabeth A. Guertal: Agriculture (Agronomy and Soils)
Steven A. Kincaid: Veterinary Medicine (Anatomy & Histology)
Udaya B. Kompella: Pharmacy (Pharmacal Sciences)
Edith A. Miller: Education (Educational Foundations, Leadership & Technology)
Behzad B. Nakhjavan: Architecture, Design & Construction (Architecture)
Charles E. Savrda: Sciences & Mathematics (Geology)
Catherine A. Solheim: Human Sciences (Human Development & Family Studies)
Donald J. Spring: Engineering (Aerospace Engineering)
Kenneth W. Walters: Liberal Arts (Philosophy)
Barbara F. Wilder: Nursing (Nursing)

1996-97
Barry Bryan: Business (Accounting)
Donald Buxton: Veterinary Medicine (Anatomy & Histology)
Roland Dute: Sciences & Mathematics ( Botany & Microbiology)
Jenny Hamner: Nursing (Nursing)
Leanne Lamke: Human Sciences (Family & Child Development)
Gary Mullen: Agriculture (Entomology)
Richard Penaskovic: Liberal Arts (Religion)
Michael Reinke: Pharmacy (Pharmacy)
Sheri Schumacher: Architecture, Design & Construction (Architecture)
Greg Somers: Forestry (Forestry)
Michael Stallings: Engineering (Civil Engineering)

1995-96
C. Hardin Rahe: Agriculture (Animal & Dairy Sciences)
D. Joseph Eakes: Agriculture (Horticulture)
David B. Weaver: Agriculture (Agronomy & Soils)
George T. Flowers: Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
William F. Buskist: Liberal Arts (Psychology)
Guy V. Beckwith: Liberal Arts ( History)
Mark S. Price: Liberal Arts (Art)
Clifton B. Perry: Liberal Arts (Philosophy)
Debbie R. Folkerts: Sciences & Mathematics (Botany & Microbiology)
Michael J. Bozack: Sciences & Mathematics (Zoology-Wildlife Science)
Robert S. Lishak: Sciences & Mathematics (Zoology-Wildlife Science)
Thomas R. Webb: Sciences & Mathematics (Chemistry)

1994-95
Alfred E. Brown: Sciences & Mathematics (Botany & Microbiology)
Gary M. Davenport: Agriculture (Animal & Dairy Sciences)

1993-94
Harry G. Ponder: Agric (Horticulture)
Janet B. Taylor: Education (Curriculum& Teaching)

1992-93
Elliot L. Stern
Hancey (Mickey) Logue: Liberal Arts (Journalism) retire

1991-92
J. Ford Laumer: Business
Dennis Siginer

1990
Joseph A. Kicklighter: Liberal Arts (history)
George W. Folkerts: Zoology-Wildlife

1989
David L. King: Zoology
Lawrence Wit: Sciences & Math (Zoology-Wildlife Science)

1987-88
Gary L. Trentham: Human Sciences
Robert S. Richardson

 

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