Applications are being accepted for the Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Award. The deadline for nominations is March 2, 2007.

The award will be given to a faculty member who best exemplifies excellence in undergraduate classroom teaching. The winner will receive a $10,000 prize.

Any full-time, tenure-track faculty member who teaches undergraduate courses on the Columbia campus can be nominated. Current faculty members who have received the teaching award in previous years are ineligible. They are Tangali Sudarshan, engineering; Larry Durstine, public health; James Roberts, mathematics; Vincent Van Brunt, engineering; Walter Peters, engineering; David Sumner, mathematics; John Spurrier, statistics; Chaden Djalali, physics and astronomy; Richard Showman, biological sciences; Daniel Reger, chemistry and biochemistry; Steven Mann, business; Ronald Atkinson, history; Scott Goode, chemistry and biochemistry; Terence Shimp, business; Charles Kovacik, geography; David Cowart, English; and William Bearden, business.

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