Award Categories and Winners

Provost Teaching Awards 

 

The Provost’s Teaching Awards are at the core of the University of Miami’s commitment to supporting and recognizing exemplary teaching. Complementing the Faculty Senate Teaching Award, which honors a distinguished record of teaching, the Provost’s Teaching Awards recognize outstanding faculty teaching within an academic year.

This year's teaching award categories recognize faculty who have (1) provided outstanding mentoring to students, (2) collaborated across departments to provide innovative teaching experiences,  (3) demonstrated commitment to student learning outside of the traditional classroom, (4) employed discussion-based teaching methods that enrich the learning experience and prepare students for addressing complex challenges or, (5) resolved a pedagogical challenge using an innovative approach.

There will be one award for each category.  All full-time faculty are eligible for these awards, which will come with a celebration and each individual award comes with $1,000 for purchases supporting the awardees’ work. The collaborative teaching award includes $3,000 which the team can use to support research, equipment, professional development, or the further development of their course. For more information, please visit here. 

Luis Glaser Mentorship Award

The Luis Glaser Mentorship Award will recognize a member of the faculty who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to mentoring students. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback, guidance, or coaching; providing professional opportunities for mentees; or assisting in the development of life skills.

Clinical Teaching Award

The Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award recognizes a member of the faculty who has made significant contributions to the development of future health professionals by demonstrating an outstanding commitment to effective, exemplary, and innovative instruction in a clinical setting and serving as a role model clinician to trainees through their exceptional empathy, professionalism, and clinical skills. Nominees should excel at implementing innovative approaches to teaching, including the use of technology, experiential teaching methods, or other creative approaches to curriculum design.

Collaborative Teaching Award

The Collaborative Teaching Award will recognize a team of faculty from different departments who are collaborating to provide unique courses and learning experiences that transcend individual disciplines. Such experiences provide students with multiple perspectives and ways of thinking that can lead to deep understanding, creative problem-solving, and innovation.

Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

The Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award will recognize a member of the faculty who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to the student learning process, integrating excellent teaching with opportunities for experiential learning through curricular and co-curricular activities and actively promoting and guiding learning outside of the classroom. Nominees should excel at developing students’ “practical intelligence.”

Discussion-Based Learning Award

The Discussion-Based Learning Award will recognize a member of the faculty who has created engaging educational experiences that leverage dialogue and discussion-based techniques, such as the Harkness Method, Flipped Learning, and Problem-Based Learning. These methods enrich the learning experience and prepare students to address complex problems through dialogue and collaboration.

Innovation in Teaching Award

The Innovation in Teaching Award will recognize a member of the faculty who has overcome a difficult course-related problem with a novel and enduring approach (novel meaning that it is new to the University of Miami or new to a discipline). The innovation may be made through technology or involve adopting a new teaching format, a novel engagement with content, the creation of new learning activities, or engagement with external entities. There should be evidence that the innovation made a demonstrable difference in learning outcomes.

2024 Provost Teaching Awards

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  • Luis Glaser Mentorship Award

    The Luis Glaser Mentorship Award will recognize a faculty member who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to mentoring students. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback, guidance, or coaching; providing professional opportunities for mentees; or assisting in the development of life skills.

    2024 Award Recipients
    • Liza Merly
    • Alessia Fornoni

  • Collaborative Teaching Award

    The Collaborative Teaching Award will recognize a team of faculty from different departments who are collaborating to provide unique courses and learning experiences that transcend individual disciplines. Such experiences provide students with multiple perspectives and ways of thinking that can lead to deep understanding, creative problem-solving, and innovation.

    2024 Award Recipients
    • Jenna Efrein
    • Vivek Nagendra Prakash
    • Prannoy Suraneni
    • Jim Virga
    • Julia Dallman
    • Amy Clement
    • Timothy Norris
    • Sharanya Majumdar
    • Brian Haus
    • Andrew Baker
    • Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos

  • Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

    The Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award will recognize a faculty member who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to the student learning process, integrating excellent teaching with opportunities for experiential learning through curricular and co-curricular activities, and actively promoting and guiding learning outside of the classroom. Nominees should excel at developing students’ “practical intelligence.”

    2024 Award Recipient
    • Denisse Cordova Montes
    • Marie Dasborough

  • Discussion-Based Learning Award

    The Discussion-Based Learning Award will recognize a faculty member who has created engaging educational experiences that leverage dialogue and discussion-based techniques, such as the Harkness Method, Flipped Learning, and Problem-Based Learning. These methods enrich the learning experience and prepare students to address complex problems through dialogue and collaboration.

    2024 Award Recipient
    • Simon Howard

  • Innovation in Teaching Award

    The Innovation in Teaching Award will recognize a member of the faculty who has overcome a difficult course-related problem with a novel and enduring approach (novel meaning that it is new to the University of Miami or new to a discipline). The innovation may be made through technology or involve adopting a new teaching format, a novel engagement with content, the creation of new learning activities, or engagement with external entities. There should be evidence that the innovation made a demonstrable difference in learning outcomes.

    2024 Award Recipient
    • Marni Lennon

  • Clinical Teaching Award

    The Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award recognizes a member of the faculty who has made significant contributions to the development of future health professionals by demonstrating an outstanding commitment to effective, exemplary, and innovative instruction in a clinical setting and serving as a role model clinician to trainees through their exceptional empathy, professionalism, and clinical skills. Nominees should excel at implementing innovative approaches to teaching, including the use of technology, experiential teaching methods, or other creative approaches to curriculum design.

    2024 Award Recipient
    • Lydia Fein

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  • Luis Glaser Mentorship Award

    The Luis Glaser Mentorship Award will recognize a faculty member who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to mentoring students. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback, guidance, or coaching; providing professional opportunities for mentees; or assisting in the development of life skills.

    2023 Award Recipients
    • Leslie Knecht

  • Collaborative Teaching Award

    The Collaborative Teaching Award will recognize a team of faculty from different departments who are collaborating to provide unique courses and learning experiences that transcend individual disciplines. Such experiences provide students with multiple perspectives and ways of thinking that can lead to deep understanding, creative problem-solving, and innovation.

    2023 Award Recipients
    • Jim Varga
    • Julia Dallman
    • Amy Clement
    • Timothy Norris
    • Sharan Majumdar
    • Brian Haus
    • Andrew Baker
    • Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos
    • Chris Mader
    • Sonia Chao
    • Louis Herns Marcelin
    • Alberto Cairo
    • Katharine Mach
    • Robin Bachin
    • Jared Williams Zemantauski
    • Derin Ural
    • Ali Habashi

  • Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

    The Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award will recognize a faculty member who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to the student learning process, integrating excellent teaching with opportunities for experiential learning through curricular and co-curricular activities, and actively promoting and guiding learning outside of the classroom. Nominees should excel at developing students’ “practical intelligence.”

    2023 Award Recipient
    • Robin Bachin

  • Discussion-Based Learning Award

    The Discussion-Based Learning Award will recognize a faculty member who has created engaging educational experiences that leverage dialogue and discussion-based techniques, such as the Harkness Method, Flipped Learning, and Problem-Based Learning. These methods enrich the learning experience and prepare students to address complex problems through dialogue and collaboration.

    2023 Award Recipient
    • Corin Overland

  • Innovation in Teaching Award

    The Innovation in Teaching Award will recognize a member of the faculty who has overcome a difficult course-related problem with a novel and enduring approach (novel meaning that it is new to the University of Miami or new to a discipline). The innovation may be made through technology or involve adopting a new teaching format, a novel engagement with content, the creation of new learning activities, or engagement with external entities. There should be evidence that the innovation made a demonstrable difference in learning outcomes.

    2023 Award Recipient
    • Kirsten Schwarz

2022 Provost Teaching Awards

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  • Luis Glaser Mentorship Award

    The Luis Glaser Mentorship Award will recognize a faculty member who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to mentoring students. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback, guidance, or coaching; providing professional opportunities for mentees; or assisting in the development of life skills.

    2022 Award Recipient
    • Denise Vidot

  • Transdisciplinary Teaching Innovation Teaching Award

    The Transdisciplinary Teaching Innovation Award will recognize a team of faculty from different schools who are collaborating to provide unique courses and learning experiences that transcend individual disciplines. Such experiences provide students with multiple perspectives and ways of thinking that can lead to deep understanding, creative problem solving, and innovation.

    2022 Award Recipients
    • Bill Green
    • Kim Grinfeder
    • Denis Hector

  • Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

    The Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award will recognize a faculty member who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to the student learning process, integrating excellent teaching with opportunities for experiential learning through curricular and co-curricular activities, and actively promoting and guiding learning outside of the classroom. Nominees should excel at developing students’ “practical intelligence.”

    2022 Award Recipient
    • Ashley Falcon

  • Discussion-Based Learning Award

    The Discussion-Based Learning Award will recognize a faculty member who has created engaging educational experiences that leverage dialogue and discussion-based techniques, such as the Harkness Method, Flipped Learning, and Problem-Based Learning. These methods enrich the learning experience and prepare students to address complex problems through dialogue and collaboration.

    2022 Award Recipient
    • Richard Myers

2021 Provost Teaching Awards

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  • Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

    This award will recognize a member of the faculty who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to the student learning process, integrating excellent teaching with opportunities for experiential learning through curricular and co-curricular activities and actively promoting and guiding learning outside of the classroom. Nominees should excel at developing students' "practical intelligence."

    2021 Award Recipients
    • Melissa Jane Barnes
    • Sonia Chao
    • Valerie Coleman-Page
    • Rebecca Sharpless

  • Luis Glaser Mentorship Award

    This award will recognize a member of the faculty who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to mentoring students. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback, guidance, coaching, providing professional opportunities for mentees, or assisting in the development of life skills. A faculty member's embrace of mentoring first-generation students, or students from underrepresented groups, while not necessary for award consideration, is desirable.

    2021 Award Recipients
    • Amiethab Aiyer
    • Joy Beverly
    • Hilit F. Mechaber
    • Imelda K. Moise
    • Carol-Anne Phekoo
    • Jonathan West

  • Innovation in Teaching Award

    This award will go to a full-time faculty member or a small team who has overcome a difficult course-related problem with a novel and enduring approach (novel meaning that it is new to the University of Miami or new to a discipline). The innovation may be made through technology or involve adopting a new teaching format, a novel engagement with content, the creation of new learning activities, or engagement with external entities. There should be evidence that the innovation made a demonstrable difference in learning outcomes.

    2021 Award Recipients
    • Margie Oleksiak
    • Andrew Porter
    • Derin Ural

     

 

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