Emory University faculty and staff were recognized with multiple awards at the 2017 school diploma ceremonies.
Among those honored were the winners of the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university's most prestigious teaching award. It was established in 1972 by alumnus Emory Williams to honor faculty for fostering participation, inquiry and creative expression in the classroom; providing a model for teaching and scholarship; and mentoring students.
The following awards were conferred:
Candler School of Theology
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Teresa L. Fry Brown, Bandy Professor of Preaching
Exemplary Teacher Award from the United Methodist Church General Board of Higher Education and Ministry: Elizabeth Corrie, associate professor in the practice of youth education and peacebuilding, and director of the Youth Theological Initiative
Faculty Person of the Year: Gregory C. Ellison II, associate professor of pastoral care and counseling
On Eagle's Wings Excellence in Teaching Award: Steffen Lösel, associate professor of systematic theology, and Kevin Watson, assistant professor of Wesleyan and Methodist studies
Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Jaap de Roode, associate professor of biology; Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Hiram Maxim, professor and chair of German studies
Emory College Award for Academic Advising: Patricia Brennan, professor of psychology
George P. Cuttino Award for Excellence in Mentoring: Martine W. Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and director of the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Lucius Lamar McMullan Award: Caroline Holmes, graduating with highest honors in physics and biology
Goizueta Business School
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Kevin Crowley, lecturer in finance
Marc F. Adler Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Kevin Crowley, lecturer in finance
Donald R. Keough Award for Excellence (faculty): Klaas Baks, associate professor in the practice of finance
Donald R. Keough Award for Excellence (staff): Wendy Case, assistant director of student affairs in the Executive MBA Program
Laney Graduate School
Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor Award (faculty): Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics
Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor Award (student): Michelle Marie Giddens, 2017 PhD graduate in neuroscience
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Ann Connor, associate clinical professor
Oxford College
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Susan Youngblood Ashmore, professor of history
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Patrick Sullivan, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Epidemiology
Thomas Sellers Award: Viola Vaccarino, Wilton Looney Chair of Cardiovascular Research and professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology
Faculty of the Year: Azhar Nizam, senior associate in biostatistics and bioinformatics
Staff of the Year: Brittney Romanson, assistant director of student services
School of Law
Emory Williams Teaching Award: Tim Holbrook, professor of law
Most Outstanding Professor: Richard Freer, Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law
School of Medicine
Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award: Zoher Kapasi, associate professor and director of the Division of Physical Therapy; vice chair of education of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Evangeline Papageorge Teaching Award: Barbara Pettit, professor of surgery