Teaching Excellence Award Winners: Outstanding teaching is an integral part of Mason’s mission and is deserving of significant recognition. The Teaching Excellence Awards are both institutional recognition and a monetary acknowledgment of the significant work that faculty members devote to course planning and preparation; support of student engagement and learning; curriculum development; and innovative teaching, advising, and undergraduate and graduate mentoring.
The Stearns Center collects nominations from students and faculty across Mason; faculty committees comprising former honorees selected this year’s teachers in three categories:
- Teaching Excellence Awards, open to full-time faculty of any status/rank
- Adjunct Teaching Excellence Awards, open to adjunct faculty
- Online Teaching Excellence Awards, open to faculty who have taught 100% online courses
Teachers of Distinction: Our Teachers of Distinction are faculty members who have been finalists for a Teaching Excellence Award, and who are recognized across campus for their exceptional teaching and their commitment to teaching-related activities.
Distinguished Library Faculty Award Winners are selected by a committee of their peers, and honored each year alongside our other excellent teachers.
To nominate a faculty member for the 2024 Awards, please complete our online nominations form.
All Mason community members
are invited to join us at our
2023 Celebration of Teaching Excellence
Monday April 17, 2023, 1:00 pm, Dewberry Hall
Reception follows the ceremony, 2:00-3:00
2023 David J. King Award Winner
 | Peggy Brouse | Cyber Security Engineering – CEC | Coming Soon |
2023 Teaching Excellence Award Winners
 | Sanja Avramovic | Health Administration and Policy – CPH | Supporting Intensive Collaboration |
 | Carrie Bonilla | Modern and Classical Languages – CHSS | Tailoring Feedback to Students |
 | David Lattanzi, Special Recognition for High Impact Teaching | Civil Engineering – CEC | Pitch and Present |
 | Shayna Maskell | School of Integrative Studies – CHSS | Create Your Own Folk Song |
 | Alison Heinhold Melley, Special Recognition for Teaching in Mason Core | Psychology – CHSS | Helping Students to Help Themselves |
2023 Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award Winners
 | Larry Guerin | Criminology, Law and Society – CHSS Accounting Area – BUS | ____ | Thinking Through The Crisis |
 | Maoria Kirker | University Libraries Honors College | Supporting Student Choice | |
 | Victor Provost | Dewberry School of Music – CVPA | Coming soon! |
2023 Adjunct Teacher of Distinction Winner
 | Joseph Dipietro | Educational Instructional Technology – CEHD | ____ | Coming Soon! |
2023 Online Teaching Excellence Award Winners
 | Gregory Grimsby | Game Design – CVPA | ;____ | Coming soon! |
 | April Mattix Foster | TCLDEL and International Education – CEHD | Weekly Wrap Up | |
 | Aoi Yamanaka | School of Integrative Studies – CHSS | Enhancing Online Interactions |
2023 Online Teachers of Distinction Winners
 | John Cantiello | Health Administration and Policy – CPH | ____ | Coming soon! |
 | Carlos Chism | English – CHSS | Engaging Students with Scenarios, Micrograding, & Modeling | |
 | Ariel M. Goldenthal | English – CHSS | Assigning Infographics | |
 | Cindy Parker | Management – SBUS | Coming soon! | |
 | Catherine M. Wright | Communication – CHSS | Supporting Concept Retention |
2023 Distinguished Library Faculty Award Winners
 | Kimberley Edwards | Head of Database Integrity and Analysis, and Interim Head of Metadata Services | ____ | Coming soon! |
 | Maoria Kirker | Lead of Teaching and Learning Team | Student Choice |
