April 27, 2007
Teaching, service and research honored with LAS awards
Iowa State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) has honored
25 faculty and staff with awards for their accomplishments and a pair of Department
of History faculty have been recognized for their classroom teaching.
The recipients will be formally recognized in the fall during the LAS Faculty/Staff
Convocation on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
The recipients and their awards include:
Outstanding Teaching - recognizes faculty members for outstanding
teaching performance over an extended period of time in undergraduate education.
- David Wilson, professor of history. For over three decades,
Wilson has led both undergraduate and graduate teaching in the Department
of History. He helps science and liberal arts majors alike appreciate the
essential historical context behind scientific developments including leading
classes in re-enacting the trial of Galileo.
Early Teaching - recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated
outstanding teaching performance unusually early in their professional careers.
- John Monroe, assistant professor of history. Deeply committed
to his teaching, Monroe has developed a lecture technique that brings historical
material alive for his students, whether they are history majors or non-majors
and in small classes or large.