G. Montgomery and Marion Mitchell Award for Innovative Teaching

This award is given in recognition of meritorious service represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. The recipient shall be honored with a recognition memento and a monetary award at the Wilson Awards Banquet held each spring.

Focus

The meritorious service represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions may represent application of knowledge in the creation of an activity or service useful to society. The achievement for which the candidate is to be honored shall have occurred or culminated during the five years preceding the nomination for the award.

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.

Elegibility

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.

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