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)