Word: awards
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...Levenson award recognizes the teaching fellow, and junior and senior faculty members whom the council feels are most able to inspire and foster intellectual growth in their students, said Kenneth E. Lee '89, chairman of the council sub-committee which selected the winners...
...This award is intended to celebrate the spirit of undergraduate teaching and the commitment which keeps that spirit alive," said Leo Levenson '83, who established the award five years ago in honor of his father, Joseph R. Levenson, the late Harvard professor of Chinese history...
...There are so many other pressures for research, publishing and committee work that it's not easy to maintain a commitment to teaching," Levenson said. "This award was created to recognize and encourage that spirit...
...Anything reinforcing the quality of teachingat the University is very important," PresidentDerek C. Bok said. "I will do my best to make surewe don't run out of people to give this award...
After declining to give an award for drama last year, the judges honored August Wilson's Fences, a play about a black family in the 1950s. In doing so, however, the Pulitzer board overruled a recommendation by its three-member nominating jury, whose choice was Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Peter Taylor, 70, an acclaimed short-story writer, won the fiction prize for his first novel in 36 years, A Summons to Memphis...