Weinberg College Teaching Awards
Student Nomination Guidelines

The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences welcomes nominations from students for the following teaching awards. You can use our online nomination form to do this (please note that all online nominations are due no later than February 16, 2009). The descriptions below provide details about each kind of teaching award. Please also consult the list of previous winners as teachers who have won within the past five years are ineligible.

Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards
Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Weinbeg College Community Building Award

Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Each year the College selects three members of the tenure-line faculty to receive Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Awards. The most senior of these recipients is designated as the winner of the E. LeRoy Hall Award. In addition, two more Distinguished Teaching Awards, designated as Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Awards, are reserved for members of the lecturer faculty . A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $2500.

All tenure-line faculty members and full-time lecturers who have taught in the College for a minimum of two years are eligible. Excellence as an undergraduate instructor is the primary criterion of the award. Contributions to curricular innovation and undergraduate life, perhaps as an advisor, program director, or director of undergraduate studies, are also valued by the Committee. Faculty members who have won a Weinberg College teaching award or a Weinberg College or NU teaching professorship in the past five years are ineligible for these awards.

The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 16, 2009. For questions about student nominations please contact For questions about student nominations please contact Brian Wasserman, b-wasserman@northwestern.edu.

Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards
Each year the College selects three teaching assistants to receive Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards, one per Division. A student-faculty Committee on Teaching Awards evaluates nominations from departments and the Student Advisory Board and recommends candidates to the Dean. The award carries a stipend of $750.

Any graduate student who has carried out the duties of teaching assistant or lecturer in 2007-08 or 2008-09 is eligible. Previous winners are ineligible.

Excellence in work with undergraduates is the primary criterion of the award. The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 16, 2009. For questions about student nominations please contact Brian Wasserman, b-wasserman@northwestern.edu.

Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The WCAS Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Outstanding Research Mentor. Students should nominate faculty members who have excelled in supervising laboratory work, independent study courses, honors work, summer research and the like. The award carries a stipend of $2500.

Nominations should make specific reference to the ways in which the professor made the research experience a success.

The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 16, 2009. For questions about student nominations please contact Brian Wasserman, b-wasserman@northwestern.edu.

Weinberg College Community Building Award
The WCAS Student Advisory Board solicits nominations for Distinguished Leaders in Undergraduate Community. The award recognizes faculty who foster a sense of community both inside and outside the classroom and who make students feel valued as members of the Northwestern intellectual community. Nominations should include letters from students describing the contributions to community made by the nominated faculty member and a list of any activities that the nominee may have undertaken for Northwestern undergraduates (advising, work with student groups, etc.). The award carries a stipend of $2500.

The deadline for submitting a nomination is February 16, 2009. For questions about student nominations please contact Brian Wasserman, b-wasserman@northwestern.edu.