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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2010 Award Winners

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Laura White, Professor, Department of English, UNL: In a department known for teaching excellence, White’s evaluations are consistently at the top, with students praising her intelligence, rigor and ability to make course materials exciting and relevant. White has taught 22 different courses at the undergraduate level and eight at the graduate level – perhaps the most variety in the department. One of her most significant contribution has been her leadership in designing and directing the Nineteenth Century Studies Program, an interdisciplinary graduate specialization program based in English, history and modern languages with participation from art, art history, music, theatre and libraries. The program has sponsored numerous speakers and a monthly event for faculty and graduate students to discuss their research.

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Paul Paulman, Professor, Family Medicine; Assistant Dean, Clinical Skills, UNMC: A faculty member in the College of Medicine since 1981, Paulman was described by his nominator as “a teacher’s teacher.” Each year, Paulman is a supervising faculty member for medical students’ rural healthcare experience in Jamaica. He also was one of the founders of the College of Medicine’s SHARING Clinic, designed to aid the medically indigent in the Omaha area, at which first- and second-year medical students serve annually. Paulman is director of the newly established Sorrell Clinical Skills Laboratory, which allows students to practice clinical skills on simulation models, and he has authored multiple books on the teaching of family medicine.

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