Nine faculty members and graduate students in the George R. Brown School of Engineering have been honored for their accomplishments as teachers by the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of the President at Rice University.
The 2021 awards and their recipients are:
Student-Taught Course Teaching Award: Savannah Cofer ’20, mechanical engineering (MECH), first-year doctoral student at Stanford University
Graduate Teaching Award for Student Support: Ivan Rosa de Siqueira, fourth-year doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE)
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching: Philip Ernst, associate professor of statistics (STAT)
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching: Bilal Ghosn, lecturer in bioengineering (BIOE)
George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching: Rafael Verduzco, professor of ChBE and of materials sciences and nanoengineering
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering: Bilal Ghosn, lecturer in BIOE
Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching (Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award): Geoff Wehmeyer, assistant professor of MECH
Presidential Mentoring Award: Michael Wong, professor and chair of ChBE, and Tina and Sunit ’85 Patel Chair in Molecular Nanotechnology
Presidential Mentoring Award: Marcia O’Malley, Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in MECH
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty: Genevera Allen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, STAT and computer science