Honoring the 2024 CELT Celebration of Teaching Award Winners

Educators Honored During New Faculty Orientation

Each year, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) acknowledges the efforts of Stony Brook University educators who embody exceptional teaching practices, dispositions and proficiencies with the CELT Celebration of Teaching Awards.

The CELT Celebration of Teaching Award winners with Provost Lejuez.

These instructors are role models who display outstanding passion for teaching, personal concern for students, and devotion to inspire and nurture a learning desire in their students.

On August 20, Provost and Executive Vice President Carl Lejuez presented the 2024 CELT Celebration of Teaching Awards during the New Faculty Orientation:

• Excellence in Teaching Innovation - Matthew Reuter, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
• Excellence in Assessment - Jason Rose, Political Science
• Excellence in Experiential Education - Heejeong Sohn, Asian and Asian American Studies
• The David L. Ferguson Award for Inclusive Teaching - Rewa Thompson, School of Nursing
• The Brooke Ellison Award for Accessible Teaching - Kathleen McGoldrick, School of Health Professions
• Excellence in Teaching: Teaching Assistant Award - Benjamin Levine, Physics and Astronomy
• Excellence in Teaching an Online Course - Ahmad Esmaili, Computer Science
• Excellence in Teaching an In-Person Course - Maria Athanasopoulou, Center for Hellenic Studies, European Languages and Culture, School of Nursing

The Provost's Outstanding Lecturer Award recognizes the university's appreciation of a faculty member's significant and ongoing contribution to the missions of the university. This is an accolade granted to a full-time lecturer at Stony Brook University, based on significant contributions to the university, as evidenced by the quality of the individual's teaching, service and related professional development. This year, the award was given to Sara Santos, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, and Kevin McDonnell, Computer Science.

The Provost's Outstanding Mentoring Award recognizes senior faculty who have served as exemplary mentors. An outstanding mentor has demonstrated exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring of non-tenure track, pre-tenure and mid-career faculty. This year, the award was given to Sandeep Mallipattu, Renaissance School of Medicine, and James Pierre-Glaude, School of Health Professions.

Congratulations to all of the awardees!

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