This award is given in recognition of faculty of the college who use innovative teaching techniques in their courses. The recipient shall be honored with a recognition memento and a monetary award at the Wilson Awards Banquet held each spring.
Focus
The purpose of this award is to honor and recognize faculty of the college who use innovative teaching techniques in their courses.
Nomination Procedure
Annually in September, the dean invites nominations for the G. Montgomery and Marion Mitchell Award for Innovative Teaching from each department and institute. Reminders are sent in November.
Each department and institute may submit one nomination (submitted by the department head or director) and the nomination packet should include:
- a letter from a department head or institute director providing a description or assessment of the innovative techniques employed by the nominee
- a recent color high-resolution portrait photograph suitable for the program in jpeg format
The nomination materials should be submitted electronically to Diane Ault (emsresearch@ems.psu.edu) no later than February 15.
Eligibility
Members of the college faculty, as defined by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Constitution, are eligible.
Selection Procedure
Nominations are solicited from departments and institutes (typically there is a limit of one nomination per category per department or institute; see the Nomination Procedure guidance under each award). Department heads and institute directors are able to provide new nominations or request reconsideration of last year’s nominees. A selection committee, comprising the deans of the college, reviews and discusses the nominations and selects the recipient in each category.
Current Recipient
Kevin Bowley
Assistant Teaching Professor in Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Past Recipients
- 2021: Team of Jennifer Babb, Megan Kohler, April Millet, Jane Sutterlin, Maria Wherley, and Mark Wherley
- 2020: Charles Ammon
- 2019: Ismaila Dabo; Eugene C. Morgan
- 2018: Mort Webster
- 2017: Timothy Bralower
- 2016: Eugene Clothiaux and Jon Nese
- 2015: Joshua Robinson and R. Allen Kimel
- 2014: Anthony Robinson
- 2013: Robert G. Crane
- 2012: Petra Tschakert
- 2011: David M. Bice
- 2010: Eliza Richardson Marone
- 2009: Todd Bacastow
- 2008: Peter Heaney
- 2007: Sarma Pisupati
- 2006: Deryck Holdsworth
- 2005: Cynthia Brewer
- 2004: Richard Alley
- 2003: David Babb, Peter Flemming, and Lee Grenci
- 2002: Jonathan Mathews
- 2001: Kevin Furlong
- 2000: David DiBiase
- 1999: Alistair Fraser
