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Faculty Awards
Carmen S. Bonanno AwardThe Carmen S. Bonanno Award for Excellence in the Teaching of a Foreign Language recognizes excellence in foreign language instruction. This year’s prize winner, Louise Marie Wills, has been a respected member of the Extension School’s French faculty since 1996. Most recently she was the instructor of the French courses Reading for Information and Reading and Translation. A student who nominated her called her “an inspiration who makes impossible things seem possible.” Wills holds a PhD in romance languages and literatures from Harvard University.
James E. Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing AwardThomas Underwood was the recipient of this year’s James E. Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award. A preceptor in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard College, Underwood has been teaching Academic Writing and Critical Reading at Harvard Extension for five years. His students consistently praise him for his dedication and energy. One student commented, “He has changed my entire concept of academic writing. He has completely changed my writing style, and I have understood and enjoyed every minute of it.”
JoAnne Fussa Distinguished Teaching AwardLinda Ann DeLauri was the 2006 recipient of the JoAnne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes exceptional teaching in the Certificate in Management Program. DeLauri has been the instructor of Grant Proposal Writing since 2004. Her student evaluations—which stress her rigor, thoroughness, enthusiasm, humor, and organizational skills—have been among the highest in the program. Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching AwardsThe Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Awards honor outstanding teaching at the Extension School. This year, the three recipients were Andrew Engelward, Sue Lonoff, and Anne Monius. Andrew Engelward, a Harvard preceptor and director of the Master of Liberal Arts in Mathematics for Teaching Program, began teaching at the Extension School in 1999. Middle and high school teachers who have taken his Math for Teaching Geometry and Math for Teaching Number Theory courses are inspired by his enthusiasm and energy. “This was a fantastic way for me to start taking classes again,” wrote one student. “I would take any class he teaches in the future.” Of Sue Lonoff’s Cross-Cultural Studies in the Novel, one student wrote, “A wonderful course with the perfect teacher.” Lonoff, senior associate at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, has been a student favorite since she started in 1983. Comparative Religious Ethics was a popular course when Anne Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, started offering it in 2003, but its enrollments took off when she offered it as a distance education course in 2004. A student noted, “Anne has an obvious enthusiasm and a huge well of knowledge about the material which comes across in her organized and entertaining lectures.”
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