Cunningham-Sigman receives Murphy Award
March 24, 2015
Carol Cunningham-Sigman (right), division dance chair and professor of visual and performing arts, is congratulated by Sally Wallace, professor of dance, after discovering she'd been named a 2015 Murphy Award recipient. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons) |
Carol Cunningham-Sigman, division dance chair and professor of visual and performing arts, has been named a recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy. Cunningham-Sigman was surprised with the news during classes on Monday (March 23).
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.
Winners of the 2015 Murphy Award and the Exceptional Early Career Award will continue to be announced this week.
The Exceptional Early Career Award recognizes 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 recipients of both awards will be honored at an invitation-only luncheon on April 3.
A list of past Murphy Award recipients is at www.purdue.edu/provost/faculty/awards/charles.html. A list of all winners of teaching awards is at www.purdue.edu/cie/teachingawards/awards.html.