University teaching award recipients to be named

Winners of the 2026 teaching awards — the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award and the Excellence in Instruction Award for Lecturers — will be announced starting 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. 

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 Excellence in Instruction Award for Lecturers honors academic staff with the rank of lecturer for outstanding undergraduate teaching on the West Lafayette campus. Recipients of the award will receive a $5,000 award.

The campus community should watch the LifeAtPurdue X account and the LifeAtPurdue Instagram for coverage. Purdue Today also will celebrate the award winners with photo coverage of the surprise award announcements later this month.