The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is recognized as one of the top research institutions in the world, but it is also a place where students can learn from some of the best teachers in the business. Each year, Smith awards three different honors to its faculty members who have demonstrated a passion for teaching excellence: The Distinguished Teaching Awards, the Krowe Teaching Excellence Awards and the Legg-Mason Award.
The Distinguished Teaching Awards, formerly know as the Top 15% Teaching Awards, are given out once a year and are based on faculty performance during the previous academic year.
This year’s Distinguished Teaching Award winners are:
- Pat Cleveland
- Joseph Bailey
- WIlliam McClenahan
- Andrew Sherman
- Elizabeth Folsom
- Joseph Perfetti
- Michael Justin Lee
- Isaac Elking
- Shawn Mankad
- Eugene Cantor
- Jeffrey Martin Miller
- Sandra Rose
- Gary Bulmash
- Leigh Anenson
- Progyan Basu
- Karen Hallows
- Congcong Li
- David Kass
- Oliver Schlake
- Michel Wedel
- Rellie Derfler-Rozin
- Wendy Moe
- Wilbur Chung
- Rachelle Sampson
- Joydeep Srivastava
- Bennet Zelner
- Michael Faulkender
- Martin Sullivan
- Shreevardhan Lele
- Subra Tangirala
- Siva Viswanathan
- Tunay Tunca
- Nicholas Seybert
- Albert Kyle
- Liu Yang
- Philip Evers
- Sarah Kroncke
- Holly Zhang
The Smith School established the Krowe Teaching Excellence Awards to recognize those who have demonstrated superior teaching skills.
This year’s Krowe Award winners are:
- Joe Bailey, DOIT
- Zhi-Long Chen, DOIT
- David Kass, Finance
- Sarah Kroncke, Finance
- Rachelle Sampson, LBPP
- Nick Seybert, Acctg
- Subra Tangirala, M&O
The Legg Mason Award is given to recognize “exceptional originality, creativity and innovation in teaching. This is a very important award at Smith," said Vice Dean Joyce Russell. "We would like to recognize those faculty that have been especially innovative in various facets of their courses -- design, delivery, assessment, action-learning, etc."
This year’s Legg-Mason Award winner is:
- Rebecca Ratner
Congratulations to all of our award recipients.
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The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in business education and cutting-edge research. The school’s world-class faculty facilitate experiential learning opportunities rooted in the real world. Smith students learn to think like entrepreneurs, prepared to drive positive impact. The school offers undergraduate, online and on-campus business master's, full-time, part-time, online and executive MBA, plus PhD and DBA degree programs, and non-degree and executive education programs. Where Smith leads, the future follows.