Teaching Awards

Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education

Established in 2001, the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education, including faculty from the graduate and professional schools. Each of the University Fellow appointments is named in honor of donors who made significant gifts to the Stanford Endowment for Undergraduate Education during The Campaign for Undergraduate Education, which ended in 2005. The program was named in honor of Anne T., MLA '07, and Robert M. Bass, MBA '74, who provided matching funds to launch it. Once faculty rotate out of their individual fellow appointments, they become Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education in perpetuity.

Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research

The Cox award was established in memory of Allan Cox who was a Professor of Geophysics and Dean of the School of Earth Sciences. In the late 1970s and early 1980s it was Allan Cox, more than any of the faculty person at Stanford, who described the virtues of the research programs at MIT and elsewhere and stimulated Stanford faculty to provide such opportunities to its undergraduates. Cox provided the energy which led to increased funding and support for faculty-student collaboration in research. Allan Cox was world renowned as the co-discoverer of magnetic field reversals. He was also a strong advocate of student participation in individual scholarship.  Awarded annually, the medal is presented at the Firestone / Golden Medal Award Ceremony during graduation weekend.

• Award Type: A citation, bronze medal, and cash award
• Eligibility: Faculty from any school in the University are eligible. Faculty may be at any point in their academic careers.
• Criteria: The Cox medal is awarded to a faculty person who has established a record of excellence directing undergraduate research over a number of years. It may also go to a faculty member who has done an especially outstanding job with just one or two undergraduates whose work is unusually superior.

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Hoagland Award Funds

The Hoagland Award Fund addresses an urgent and felt need of the faculty for a source of funds specifically earmarked for pedagogical innovation. Innovative teaching approaches may be embodied in an entirely new course or set of courses, the major redesign of an existing course or courses, or a project to reexamine or rethink aspects of a curriculum with an emphasis on reconsidered pedagogy and new learning materials. The proposed project may involve one faculty member or a team, though preference will be given to projects likely to have greater impact either because of the number of faculty/departments/programs involved, the depth or breadth of student engagement, or the likelihood that the project will be a model for other Stanford courses.

• Deadline:  April 30, 2012
• 2012 RFP
• Additional materials:

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    List of past grants

Teaching Awards

For more information on teaching awards given at Stanford, please see our collection of teaching awards on campus.

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