Excellence awards for outstanding professors
Mount Holyoke professors were presented with awards for their superb teaching and scholarship at the annual recognition ceremony.
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Mount Holyoke professors were presented with awards for their superb teaching and scholarship at the annual recognition ceremony.
Amy’s enthusiasm creates an energy and curiosity for her students. Students consistently comment on how much they enjoy sharing their learning with friends and family outside of class.
There is depth and sophistication to Bode’s scholarship – and yet, his work is accessible and digestible to a wide range of audience.
Interdisciplinary in scope, Girma’s courses attract students from all over campus and the Five Colleges.
Professor King’s students praise his “intensive feedback and review on essays and written contributions”, his eloquent lectures, his exceptional abilities as a discussion facilitator, and his “clear knowledge and firsthand experience” of the material he teaches.
Students learned to create book trailers to spark interest and to entice others to read important literary works by Spanish writers.
“I’m very excited about being able to forge direct connections with the students I teach, and to teach bright students in a small-class environment.”
“Just when I’m settling into a particular conviction, a student will say something that opens up a whole new way of seeing things.”
Kathryn Accurso won the American Education Research Association Vocabulary SIG Student Research Paper of the Year Award for her paper.
“It’s exciting to have the opportunity to make the case for the relevance of Jewish studies in a truly multicultural environment.”