Two Dozen Faculty Earn Teaching Awards

Posted on Feb. 5, 2019

Twenty-four faculty members and teaching assistants have been named winners of Carolina’s 2019 University Teaching Awards. The University Committee on Teaching Awards, which oversees the selection process, encouraged students to nominate faculty and graduate teaching assistants for the awards. The committee specifically sought nominations with examples that display the nominees’ care for students, mentorship or effective use of classroom methods.

This year’s winners are:

Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching (nominee)

• Donald Hornstein, School of Law

Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction

• Maria De Guzman, English and comparative literature
• Donna Gilleskie ’89, economics
• Bernard Herman, American studies
• Ram Neta, philosophy

Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

• Spencer Barnes, School of Media and Journalism
• Rhonda Lanning, School of Nursing
• Marsha Penner, psychology and neuroscience
• Matt Redinbo, chemistry

Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students

• Alexander Miller, chemistry
• Diego Riveros-Iregui, geography

Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement

• Channing Der, pharmacology

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

• Beth Kurtz-Costes, psychology and neuroscience

Johnston Teaching Excellence Awards

• Inger Brodey, English and comparative literature
• Matthew Springer, School of Education

Chapman Family Teaching Awards

• Radislav Lapushin, Germanic and Slavic languages and literature
• Gidi Shemer, biology
• Michelle Sheran-Andrews, economics
• Sarah Ann Treul, political science

Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Philip Bold ’17 (MA), philosophy
• Megan Ford, chemistry
• Ani Govjian, English and comparative literature
• Holly Shablack ’17 (MA), psychology and neuroscience
• Aisling Winston ’16 (MS, ’18 PhD), economics

The recipients will be recognized during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Syracuse on Feb. 26. The awards banquet will be held April 8.

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