Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Great Teacher Awards ive Temple University faculty members received the Great Teacher Awards for 1994. A ceremony was held on Monday, November 21 in Feinstone Lounge, Sullivan Hall at Berks and Park Malls on the Main Campus. The awards are believed to be the largest given by a college or university for the recognition of excellence in teaching -- a $10,000 cash prize for each recipient. The Great Teacher Awards were established in 1988. As President Peter J. Liacouras said, Temple has many great teachers. In honoring five of them, we reaffirm our belief in and support for teaching as the heart and soul of Temple University. What exactly makes one a Great Teacher? This year ' s awardees represent widely differing fields — dance, adolescent psychology, business management, physics, and educational statistics — and the literally volumes of accolades from co-workers and students accompanying their nominations echo similar themes: a mastery of their subject, a lively, enthusiastic teaching style, and a genuine concern for students, which includes being easily accessible to them. -Sis- v K . $fytcbujX (article and biographical information: courtesy of Temple University News Bureau) Outsts 154 Gret Teachers- Forster, Hilsendager, Morano, Steinberg, Hamilton (photo by Dias)

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School of Medicine Allen R. Myers, M.D., Dean The School of Medicine is unique because it is equally competent in providing basic health needs to the sick poor of the city as well as some of the most sophisticated care available to persons throughout the Northeast. Esther Boyer College of Music Jeffrey M. Cornelius, Dean founded 1962 This college maintains a tradition of high caliber musical training through active and innovative programs. The college ' s reputation for excellence is founded on the work of a faculty whose distinction as performers, scholars, and most of all, teachers, has won much acclaim for the college. School of Pharmacy Peter H. Doukas, Dean founded 1901 The School of Pharmacy is dedicated to providing education for men and women who seek to provide health-care services in the areas of pharmaceutical practice. School of Social Administration Curtis A. Leonard, Dean founded 1969 The School of Social Administration offers a continuum of educational programs designed to prepare professionals for varied human service roles and tasks in the fields of social welfare and social work. 153

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Us • I mas Wtool we Hance, raf) : ' es: I ' rich T) eter Faciei, Professor of Physics in Temple ' s College of Arts and Sciences. Known globally for his research in condensed matter physics and author of a monograph that has become a classic in his field, he is a scientist with a passion for teaching and the values of a liberal education. For over two decades Dr. Forster has Eotivated both science-shy undergraduates and graduate-level physicists to pursue an understanding of the liverse. His course for non-majors, Matter and Motion, is affectionately known as Physics for Poets. He ceived the CAS Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988, and last year, students in the University Honors rogram named him Professor of the Year. Rpbeit 0. HayttysLlZc ' h,, III, Associate Professor of General and Strategic Management in the School Df Business and Management. An innovator in the classroom, he eagerly shares his scholarship while challenging students to find new solutions to business problems. He has taught at the undergraduate, master ' s, Executive MBA and Ph.D. levels since coming to Temple 13 years ago. Dr. Hamilton ' s leadership role in the University community includes serving as assistant dean for several years and as president of the School ' s ollegial Assembly. He received the Lindback Teaching Award in 1993 and this year ' s Asher Award for Outstanding Faculty for his work designing a new series of entrepreneurial courses. S u X H LieixAa et, Professor of Dance Education, College of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. As artist, educator, author, and arts advocate, her achievements extend from the classroom to the professional arena. Her impact on arts policy-making reaches beyond the University to regional, state and national levels. As chair since 1984, she has brought the Dance Department to the forefront of dance education in the country. She initiated and chairs the University ' s Arts Commission and has played a pivotal role in uniting the arts at Temple and launching the now-annual Celebration of the Arts. Dr. Hilsendager received a Lindback Award in 1977 and was named 1989 National Dance Association Scholar. CcCUkLe K C. Hcxo4 o, Professor of Educational Psychology, College of Education. Hundreds of students have overcome their fear of statistics under Dr. Morano ' s encouraging support in the classroom. Using testing to help students master difficult material, she continually seeks new materials and methods to accommodate the many ways people learn. As a teacher and mentor, she energizes her students with enthusiasm tempered by patience and a sense of humor. Her teaching excellence has been recognized with the Benjamin Rosner Memorial Award from the College of Education in 1977 and a Lindback Award in 1984. Lawivhsee S2evfvkei£, Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences. A nationally recognized expert on adolescence, he has achieved prominence in his profession and has trained scores of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have gone on to contribute to the field of adolescent development in their own right. He has also authored books aimed at parents on youth and parenting adolescents, You and Your Adolescent and Crossing Paths: How Your Child ' s Adolescence Triggers Your Own Crisis, published this year. He received teaching honors at both the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Wisconsin before coming to Temple in 1988. 155