Word: levenson
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...council awarded its annual Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize to Ernest H. Wu, a teaching fellow in Biology 7b, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, and Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar...
...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...
Calling the Levenson Prize a "jinx," Lee noted that three of the four junior faculty members who have won the prize have since left the University. Brinkley will bring that number tofour out of five as the history professor wasdenied tenure last fall...