Prof. Dan Watson Selected to Receive the 2006 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.
Professor Dan Watson to Receive the Goergen Award for Distinguished
Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education.
Professor Dan Watson is a recepient of a Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education in 2006. Professor Watson was nominated by the department for the Georgen Award in recognition of his contributions to both Astronomy and Physics courses.
The Goergen Awards will be presented at the College-wide Convocation. The Convocation will highlight the Goergen Award winners and be a celebration of excellence in teaching, as well as a welcome to the first-year students. The award winners give brief acceptance speech to the audience after receiving their awards (the acceptance speeches are also printed in the Convocation Program).
Members of the department who have received Goergen Awards in the past include Professor Eberly (for excellence in undergraduate teaching), Professor Wolfs (for excellence in undergraduate teaching), Professor Slattery (for curricular development), and Dr. Auchincloss, Professor Bodek, Professor Orr and Connie Jones (for the Women in Science and Engineering Program).
A summary of recent teaching awards won by members of the department is given at: http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/M/pasx/people/awardsTeaching.html
2006
Graduate Student Jose Perillan Receives Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
Prof. Ashok Das Receives University Graduate Teaching Award
2004
Prof. Arie Bodek to receive 2004 University Award for Graduate Teaching
2003
Prof. Steven Manly named 2003 Carnegie Foundation's New York State Professor of the Year
Profs. Nicholas Bigelow and David Meyerhoffer Receive Dean's Award
2002
Prof. Emil Wolf Receives Esther Hoffman Beller Award From the Optical Society of America
Graduate Student Mark Houk Wins University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
Prof. Steven Manly Named College's Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
2001
Department of Physics and Astronomy Ranked 2nd Nationwide in Overall Graduate Student Satisfaction
Graduate Student Kevin Wright Wins University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
2000
Prof. Joseph Eberly Receives University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education
Prof. Emil Wolf Receives University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
1999
Graduate Student Jane Wesley Wins University Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
Prof. Lynne Orr Receives University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
Prof. Adam Frank Receives Popular Writing Award of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society
1998
Program for Women in Science and Engineering, directed by Dean Priscilla Auchincloss, Prof. Arie Bodek and Prof. Lynn Orr, wins University's Georgen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Learning
1997
Prof. Paul Slattery wins University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Learning
Prof. Frank Wolfs Receives University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching
1995
Prof. Frank Wolfs Receives University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:34:11 -0400
Subject: Goergen Award
From: "Cusimano, Crystal"
Professor Dan Watson Article submitted by:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
418 Bausch & Lomb
RC Box 270171
Dear Dan:
I am pleased to tell you that you have been selected to receive a Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching. In honor of this award, you will receive a financial award of $6,000. This is a wonderful and well-deserved recognition of your contributions to the College. You have the warmest congratulations of all the Deans.
We plan to present the Goergen Awards at the College-wide Convocation, to be held on September 8, 2006, beginning at 12 noon on Dandelion Square. The Convocation will highlight the Goergen Award winners and be a celebration of excellence in teaching, as well as a welcome to the first-year students. We would like the award winners to respond briefly to the audience after receiving their awards. Remarks of two to three minutes will allow the ceremony to be an appropriate length. Your acceptance speech, or writing based on it, will be printed in the University≠s publication, How I Teach. If possible, please submit your remarks to Crystal Cusimano in the College Deans' Office no later than September 4, 2006.
In addition to the ceremony, award recipients are invited to lunch immediately following the festivities in reserved seating next to the buffet tent. Please respond to Crystal at x35190 if you are available to participate in the ceremony and join us for lunch. Please feel free to invite any family members to these festivities. If you do so, it is important that you let Crystal know their names so we can reserve seating for them at the ceremony and the lunch.
Once again, congratulations on this distinguished achievement.
Sincerely,
Richard Feldman
Interim Dean of the College
Arie Bodek
7/6/06; 11:04:17 AM