Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award

Two Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Awards are presented each year in honor and recognition of meritorious and sustained records of excellence in teaching and creativity related to teaching to two full-time faculty members of the University of Nebraska. Both awards may be made to the same campus in a given year.

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2009 Award Winners

Dr. Donald Lee, Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Lee is a leader in the instruction of plant biology, genetics and biotechnology to undergraduate students at UNL, where he is also an outstanding student advisor, a leader in faculty teaching improvement and a mentor to graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants. As a national leader in distance education and web-based instruction, his students also include agronomists, high school teachers, private industry professionals and plant science instructors. Dr. Lee has been nationally recognized for his teaching by the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. Dr. Lee joined the UNL faculty in 1989.

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Dr. Calvin P. Garbin, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Garbin will be honored for his teaching of research methods, data analysis and psychometrics and for his impact on the teaching activities of others in the Psychology Department. He revolutionized and improved the undergraduate and graduate curricula in research and quantitative methods. His outstanding classroom instruction is reflected by teaching awards that include the ASUN Outstanding Educator of the Year Award in 2002 and his selection in 2007 as the first recipient of the Hazel R. McClymont Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Garbin has also had a significant impact on student learning outside the classroom, having supervised over 400 undergraduate research presentations and served on more than 100 dissertation committees. His colleagues praised him for putting teaching first, and for contributing to the teaching excellence of others.

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