The Morgan Chia-Wen Sze and Bobbi Josephine Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize will be awarded to recognize professorial faculty for excellence in teaching, and will be awarded alternately over a three-year cycle to faculty in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences and mathematics. The donors would like to encourage all award recipients to use a portion of the award to travel anywhere in the world of interest to them and through that travel “to bring the world back to Cornell”.
Eligibility
Eligible Title:
Professorial faculty
Criteria:
The prize is awarded to recognize faculty for excellence in teaching and will be awarded alternately over a three-year cycle to faculty in the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences and mathematics. The award recipient will be encouraged to use a portion of the award to travel anywhere in the world of interest to them and, through that travel, “bring the world back to Cornell.”
Available Awards:
One award - $31,700
Rotation of Awards:
2025: Natural Sciences & Math
2026: Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Programs
2027: Humanities & Arts
Nomination Process
The 2025 nomination submission deadline is Friday, March 14th.
Required nomination materials:
- Chair’s nomination letter, which should include a brief summary of teaching evaluation data
- Candidate’s CV
- List of all courses taught in the past 5 years
- Letters of support from students (maximum of 5)
All materials in the nomination package should be submitted as a single PDF titled lastname_DEPARTMENT_sze-hernandez
Email submission as a pdf attachment to Morgan_.22j4j8795qsxd6zt@u.box.com
Recipients
2023-24
- Nick Admussen, Asian studies
2022-23
- Amy Krosch, psychology
2021-22
- Kyle Lancaster, chemistry and chemical biology
2020-21
- David Smith, psychology
- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, literatures in English
2018-19
- Tara Holm, mathematics
2017-18
- Amy Villarejo, performing and media arts, comparative literature, and feminist, gender and sexuality studies
- Lydia Fakundiny, English