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Teaching Awards

The President's Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in the year 2000 and is given to full-time faculty members who have a sustained and compelling record of excellence in teaching and learning and an ongoing commitment to educational excellence. Each recipient receives a monetary award plus a medal designed by Professor Emeritus Franklin Adams. Two medals are awarded at the university commencement each May - one for undergraduate teaching and the other for graduate/professional teaching. The medal is designed to be worn by the recipient on formal academic occasions such as university commencements or whenever academic costumes are worn.

The medal bears a stylized rendering of the shield that is an integral part of the university coat of arms. The grouping of three towers represents the arms of the city of Tours in France which was the home of the Tulane family for years. The crescents with flanking stars are from the arms of Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, who founded the city of New Orleans. The quartering of these two arms on the shield signify the identification of the university with the city. The Latin motto, Non Sibi Sed Suis, is translated as " not for one's self, but for one's own".

Medal Recipients

College

Level

Year
Ila Berman Architecture Undergraduate
2005
Byron Crawford Medicine Graduate/
Professional
2005
April Brayfield Liberal Arts
and Sciences
Undergraduate
2004
Ronald S. Landis Liberal Arts
and Sciences
Graduate/
Professional
2004
David Rice Engineering Undergraduate
2003
Cathy Lazarus Medicine Graduate/
Professional
2003

Stacy Overstreet

Liberal Arts
and Sciences

Undergraduate

2002

Oliver A. Houck

Law

Graduate/
Professional

2002

John P. Klingman

Architecture

Undergraduate

2001

N. Kevin Krane

Medicine

Graduate/
Professional

2001
Venkat Subramaniam Business Undergraduate
2000
Norman R Kreisman Medicine Graduate/
Professional
2000

 

The President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Medal
The President's Award for Excellence in Teaching is presented to two outstanding Tulane University faculty members each year in recognition of their efforts in the classroom.