Each year, the office of academic affairs sponsors a celebration to gather faculty and recognize the scope of faculty excellence at Loyola in teaching, scholarship, mentoring, and engaged scholarship. Formerly known as the Deans' Symposium, the celebration has taken place on Maryland Day since 1997. Reconfigured in 2017, the celebration includes conferring six university-wide faculty awards, a brief scholarly presentation from the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar of the Year award, and highlights of the past year of grant recipients and grant activity, teaching and advising activity, and faculty scholarship and creative activity.
Faculty Excellence Awards
Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship recognizes and celebrates a faculty member's extraordinary contributions to Loyola's Students, community partners, and institutional mission through sustained involvement and excellence in one or more types of engaged scholarship (including service-learning).
2021 Awardees - Marianna Carlucci, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and Amy Wolfson, Ph.D., professor of psychology
2021 Awardee - Qi Shi, Ph.D., associate professor of education specialties
2020 Awardee - Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Ph.D., associate professor of education specialties
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Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (by school, rotates each year)
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching recognizes a colleague for their commitment to outstanding teaching in Loyola's graduate programs.
2021 Awardee - Gregory Hoplamazian, Ph.D., associate professor of communication
2020 Awardee - Kelly Keane, Ed.D., senior lecturer of education specialties
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Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring honors one faculty member who has had a profound impact on the life, career, or direction of students at Loyola.
2021 Awardee - Sara Magee, Ph.D., associate professor of communication
2020 Awardee - Kelly Keane, Ed.D., senior lecturer of education specialties
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Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching recognizes a colleague for achievement in an imaginative teaching practice. This might take the form of a curricular revision, a course redesign, an inventive tradition, a new teaching format, an exemplary project, a new immersive experience, or any number of ways a colleague transforms the learning experience.
2021 Awardee - Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy
2020 Awardee - Elizabeth Dahl, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry
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Distinguished Scholar of the Year
The Distinguished Scholar of the Year Award honors a faculty member for outstanding achievement in the area of research and creative activity.
2021 Awardee - Bret Davis, Ph.D., professor of philosophy
2020 Awardee - Robert Miola, Ph.D., Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English and professor of classics
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Harry W. Rodgers III Distinguished Teacher of the Year
The Harry W. Rodgers III Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award was founded in 1971 to give public recognition to full-time faculty members whose teaching activities demonstrate a high degree of professional excellence.
2021 Awardee - Jason Q. Zhang, Ph.D., professor of marketing
2020 Awardee - Marianna Carlucci, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology
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