Nominations for the 1998 Teacher/Scholar of the Year

Jack Battenfield, Associate Vice President, University Relations

The Faculty Academic Advisory Group to the President and to the Provost invites you and your colleagues to submit nominations for the Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award for 1998. All current faculty members of the University are eligible for consideration for this significant award. A list of previous recipients of the award is provided with this memorandum for reference purposes.

In selecting the awardee, the Committee will be designating a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in both teaching and scholarly activity (manifested by scholarly research, creative writing, original works of art, etc.). The concept of excellence in both of these areas should be evident in the awardee’s career accomplishments.

Nominations may be submitted by colleagues who can attest to the nominee’s qualifications. Nomination dossiers should include a nomination letter and a Curriculum Vitae. As part of the C.V., one page summaries of both the teaching and scholarly activities of the nominee are requested, as described below.

For the teaching area, include an overview of the nominee’s courses taught for the past five years (indicate undergraduate or graduate, typical enrollments and offering frequency), innovative techniques used, and a summary of student course evaluations (one page). The summary of the nominee’s scholarly work should include the nature of the research or creative work, importance of the work to the scholar’s field, funding sources, awards received, graduate students/fellows trained, etc. (one page). The nomination dossiers will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Faculty Academic Advisory Group and an awardee will be selected. The Group may request additional documentation as it deems necessary to evaluate more fully the nominations.

Nomination dossiers should be delivered to the Group in care of Ms. Ann Sumler, Senior Secretary to the Provost, Room 235 Tigert Hall, no later than March 24, 1998. The awardee will be notified at the end of the Spring Semester.

We encourage you to confer with colleagues and to identify and nominate deserving faculty members. This is one of the University of Florida’s most prestigious faculty awards, offering an honorarium of $2,000 in addition to other appropriate recognition.

RECIPIENTS — TEACHER/SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR AWARD

1959-60 G.K. Davis — Agriculture

1960-61 R.L. Johns — Education

1961-62 Harold Bachman — Music

1962-64 (not awarded)

1964-65 M.J. Dauer — Political Science

1965-66 A.P. Black — Engineering

1966-67 T.W. Herbert — English

1967-68 Raymond Crist — Geography

1968-69 Archie Carr — Botany

1969-70 Arthur Combs — Education

1970-71 Wayne H. Chen — Engineering

1971-72 Irving Goffman — Business Administration

1972-73 Frederick Rhines — Engineering

1973-74 David Chalmers — History

1974-75 Jerry N. Uelsmann — Fine Arts

1975-76 G. Paul Moore — Speech

1976-77 William Woodruff — History

1977-78 Howard T. Odum — Engineering

1978-79 Ellis D. Verink — Engineering

1979-80 Solon T. Kimball — Anthropology

1980-81 M.B. Rowe — Education

1981-82 Larry Hench — Engineering

1982-83 Charles Wagley — Anthropology

1983-84 James Winefordner — Chemistry

1984-85 Dinesh O. Shah — Chemical Engineering

1985-86 Roy C. Craven — Fine Arts

1986-87 Parker A. Small, Jr. — Medicine

1987-88 Fred A. Lindholm — Engineering

1988-89 Martin A. Uman — Engineering

1989-90 William M. Jones — Chemistry

1990-91 J.J. Ewel — Botany

1991-92 Thomas L. Crisman — Environmental Eng. Sciences

1992-93 David H. Evans — Zoology

1993-94 (not awarded)

1994-95 Patrick Duff — Obstetrics and Gynecology

1995-96 Pierre Ramond – Physics

1996-97 Colin Sumners — Medicine