ANNA AND SAMUEL PINANSKI TEACHING PRIZE SPRING 2014 Nominations Accepted April 7 – April 16 (4:30 p.m.)
The PINANSKI TEACHING PRIZE is awarded annually to members of the Wellesley College faculty to honor excellent teaching across the curriculum. Faculty, staff, and students may submit nominations that offer specific, illustrative examples of excellent teaching. To be eligible for nomination, faculty members should have taught at least one course at Wellesley since the 2010-2011 school year. An individual may make multiple nominations for different faculty and previous nominations may be resubmitted.
Prize winners are announced at Commencement. Citations describing the particular forte of each recipient will be read at Commencement so that the descriptions can serve on that occasion as public symbols of the College’s regard for their high quality teaching. Citations are written, in part, using language from the nominations.
In the past, the prizes were awarded with reference to the three academic areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Recognizing that a number of faculty are appointed to interdisciplinary departments, reference to these three areas will no longer guide committee recommendations.
The Pinanski Prize Committee, composed of past prize winners and three seniors selected by the College Government Student Organization Appointment Process, works with the chair of the committee to prepare prize recommendations for President Bottomly. This year, faculty members include: Tracy Gleason, Professor of Psychology; Lisa Rodensky, Caspersen Associate Professor in the Humanities and Associate Professor of English; and Orit Shaer, Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Student members include: Katherine Leung, Shirin Maani, and Kendrick Smaellie. Class Deans Jennifer Stephan and Joy Playter chair the committee.
Nominations may be submitted electronically through MyWellesley. After logging in, select the tab for your group: students, faculty, or employment services (for staff). In the Administrivia section, select Pinanski Teaching Prize Nomination.
The nomination process closes at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, 2014.
Former Pinanski Prize winners are ineligible candidates for a subsequent Pinanski Prize award. The list of current ineligible faculty includes:
Rachid Aadnani Robin Aker Mary Allen (E) Connie Bauman Rebecca Bedell Patricia Berman Frank Bidart Dan Brabander Emily Buchholtz Martin Brody William Cain John Cameron Stanley Chang William Coleman (E) Ann Congleton (E) Mary Coyne (E) Elena Creef Lee Cuba Beth DeSombre Alex Diesl Nicholas Doe Don Elmore Roxanne Euben Paul Fisher Charles Fisk Nolan Flynn Richard French Charlene Galarneau Nancy Genero Tracy Gleason Stacie Goddard Koichi Hagimoto David Haines Bunny Harvey Michael Hearn Thomas Hodge Nora Hussey Lidwien Kapteijns Margaret Keane Nancy Kolodny (E) David Lindauer Andrea Levitt Kathryn Lynch Stephen Marini Phyllis McGibbon Ifeanyi Menkiti Julia Miwa Marianne Moore Robert Paarlberg Carlos Ramos Joy Renjilian-Burgy Michele Respaut (E) Lisa Rodensky Larry Rosenwald Margery Sabin Orit Shaer Randy Shull Andrew Shennan Alan Shuchat Frederic Shultz Marilyn Sides Glenn Stark Raymond Starr Yui Suzuki Margaret Thompson (E) Ann Trenk Franklyn Turbak Terry Tyler Ann Velenchik Maurizio Viano Akila Weerapana Claire Zimmerman (E)
E = Emeritae/i