25 Faculty, TAs Earn Teaching Awards

Posted on Jan. 22, 2018

Twenty-five faculty members and teaching assistants have been named winners of 2018 University Teaching Awards.

The University Committee on Teaching Awards, which oversees the selection process, encouraged students to nominate deserving faculty and graduate teaching assistants for the awards. The committee specifically sought nominations with distinct examples that display the nominees’ care for students, mentorship or effective use of classroom methods.

The full list of winners follows:

Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, UNC’s Nominee

• Jason Metcalfe, math

Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction

• Regina M. Carelli, psychology and neuroscience
• Jane Danielewicz, English and comparative literature
• Deborah Gerhardt, law
• Chérie Rivers Ndaliko, music

Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

• Robert Babcock, classics
• Marc Cohen ’11 (PhD), English and comparative literature
• Brian Hogan ’03 (PhD), chemistry
• Harshita Kamath, religious studies
• Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf, physics and astronomy

Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students

• Reyco Henning, physics and astronomy
• Kathryn Reissner, psychology and neuroscience

Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement

• Larry Goldberg ’81 (MA), English and comparative literature

William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Amy Maddox ’03 (PhD), biology

Johnston Teaching Excellence Awards

• Cynthia Current ’02 (MA, ’11 PhD), English and comparative literature
• Kevin Reese ’99 (’10 PhD), Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures

Chapman Family Teaching Awards

• Rita Balaban, economics
• Bob Goldstein, biology
• Laura Halperin, English and comparative literature
• Michelle Robinson, American studies

Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Sarah Gaby ’12 (MA), sociology
• Sonny Kelly, communication
• Benjamin Murphy, English and comparative literature
• Lillian Reuman ’16 (MA), psychology and neuroscience
• Macy Salzberger ’16 (MA), philosophy

The recipients were recognized during halftime of the men’s basketball game on Jan. 20. Chancellor Carol L. Folt also will host a spring banquet in their honor.

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