Word: award
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...order to recognize excellence in teaching, the Government Department has created a Distinguished Teaching Award for graduate student section leaders and assistant head tutors within the department...
...prize, conceived of by Department Chairman Robert D. Putnam, will recognize long term acheivement by one to four teaching fellows each year, said Alexei J. Cowett '89, a member of the committee that will award the prizes. The winners will receive approximately $500 apiece from an anonymous gift...
...This award, the first of its kind to be offered within any particular department, will attempt to focus upon the importance of imagination and innovation in teaching, according to a fact sheet distributed to undergraduate concentrators. "We want to recognize people who are not only good communicators, but who can make material come alive," said Fernando J. LaGuarda '88, a member...
According to Alan Levine, assistant head tutor of government, Putnam created the award when he "noticed that a lot of thing were rewarded in the department but not teaching." Peterson said dissertation prizes and research fellowships have been available for years but until now "teaching has had no form of formal recognition...
Comedy was prevalent on TV in the late '40s and early '50s, but most of it took the form of live variety shows like Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater. In 1953 I Love Lucy won the first Emmy Award given in the situation comedy category...