Murphy Award, Exceptional Early Career Award recipients to be named this week
March 24, 2014
Winners of the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy and the inaugural Exceptional Early Career Award will be announced this week.
The University's highest undergraduate teaching honor, the Murphy Award is accompanied by a $10,000 cash award and induction into Purdue's Teaching Academy, which provides leadership for the improvement of undergraduate, graduate and outreach teaching. Murphy was a history professor at Purdue from 1927 to 1970.
The Exceptional Early Career Award was created by the Office of the Provost and the Murphy Award selection committee to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching among Purdue's early career, tenure-track faculty. Recipients of the award will receive a $5,000 award with additional funds for a department business account.
"The Exceptional Early Career Award highlights the challenging but rewarding work of faculty who dedicate time to student learning while still committing to the research and scholarship requirements of the tenure track," says David Nelson, associate director at the Center for Instructional Excellence. "It is also hoped that the award will spur these excellent instructors to garner future accolades as teachers and to serve as guides for undergraduate education on the Purdue campus."
The recipients of both awards will be honored at an invitation-only luncheon on March 28.
A list of past Murphy Award recipients is at www.purdue.edu/provost/faculty/awards/charles_murphy.html. A list of all winners of teaching awards is at http://www.purdue.edu/cie/teachingawards/awards.html.