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