Jennifer Murdock, an associate professor, teaching stream in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts & Science, was named one of four recipients of the University of Toronto’s President’s Teaching Awards last week.
Murdock receives the award along with Pier Bryden, an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine, William Cluett, a professor in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, and Fiona Rawle, an associate professor, teaching stream in the department of biology at U of T Mississauga.
Murdock – who joined U of T after a few years as an economist in the anti-trust division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in economic consulting – has helped recruit teaching-stream faculty and spearheaded important curriculum redesign and enhancement efforts for undergraduate economics and commerce programs.
The awards recognize sustained excellence in teaching, research on teaching and the integration of teaching and research. Winners join the University’s Teaching Academy for a five-year period and receive an annual professional development allowance of $10,000 for five years.
At the same time as the university celebrates the recipients of the President’s Teaching Award, it has also announced the list of faculty who were promoted to University Professor, the highest designation for faculty at the university, which recognizes “unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge.”
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University also announces five faculty members – three from A&S – promoted to University Professor. The new University Professors are:
Shana Kelley - Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
John Kloppenborg - Faculty of Arts & Science, Department for the Study of Religion
Tania Li - Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Anthropology
Stephen Scherer - Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics
Douglas Stephan - Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Chemistry