Two CAS faculty members -- Alan Dickman and Michael Dreiling -- have been recognized with the 2009 Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Recipients of the Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching receive one-time awards of $2,000. It is given to faculty members who have demonstrated long-standing excellence in teaching at the university.
Winners of each award are chosen on the recommendation of faculty members and students. The awards are supported by endowment funds. They receive crystal apples and also are honored at spring commencement.
Dickman is a program director for Environmental Studies and a research professor and senior instructor in the biology department. He has been teaching at the UO for 23 years and is known for his general and forest biology classes. In class evaluation forms, students commend Dickman for planning field trips that allow them to apply classroom studies to the real world. Students say he is inspirational, passionate and challenging.
Dreiling is a sociology professor who is known for encouraging students in both contemplation and action. One graduate student wrote, "I’m actually not sure I would have made it past the second year of the graduate program were it not for him. He inspired creativity in me while directing me in rigorous social science methodologies." Dreiling teaches courses on nonviolence, work and labor, social movements and American society.
A third recipient, David Dusseau is Donald A. Tykeson Senior Instructor of Business in the Lundquist College of Business.
"The three chosen this year embody the spirit of the distinguished teaching award. Each is a leader and inspiration in the classroom, providing experiences for students that resonate long past graduation," said Frohnmayer. "I look forward, every spring, to the chance to recognize these outstanding faculty members in front of their peers and students."
Winners of each award are chosen on the recommendation of faculty members and students. The awards are supported by endowment funds. They receive crystal apples and also are honored at spring commencement.
Dickman is a program director for Environmental Studies and a research professor and senior instructor in the biology department. He has been teaching at the UO for 23 years and is known for his general and forest biology classes. In class evaluation forms, students commend Dickman for planning field trips that allow them to apply classroom studies to the real world. Students say he is inspirational, passionate and challenging.
Dreiling is a sociology professor who is known for encouraging students in both contemplation and action. One graduate student wrote, "I’m actually not sure I would have made it past the second year of the graduate program were it not for him. He inspired creativity in me while directing me in rigorous social science methodologies." Dreiling teaches courses on nonviolence, work and labor, social movements and American society.
A third recipient, David Dusseau is Donald A. Tykeson Senior Instructor of Business in the Lundquist College of Business.
"The three chosen this year embody the spirit of the distinguished teaching award. Each is a leader and inspiration in the classroom, providing experiences for students that resonate long past graduation," said Frohnmayer. "I look forward, every spring, to the chance to recognize these outstanding faculty members in front of their peers and students."