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Summer 2001
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Learning to Lead, Marine Style

Reunion 2001!

Keeping Track of the Joneses

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Wharton Now

The Campaign for Sustained Leadership

Faculty Lauded for Teaching Excellence

Robert P. Inman This spring, undergraduate and graduate students recognized several Wharton faculty for their outstanding teaching. Among the most prestigious honors given each year is the The David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, awarded to recipients for their ability to lead, stimulate and challenge students, their knowledge of the latest research in their field and their commitment to educational leadership.

Robert A. Stine Robert A. Stine, associate professor of statistics, received this year's David Hauck Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty. Stine also received an Award for Excellence in Teaching Among the Standing Faculty this year. Andrew Metrick, assistant professor of finance, won the David Hauck Outstanding Teaching Award for untenured faculty. Metrick was also the recipient of an Award for Excellence in Teaching Among the Standing Faculty this year.

Thomas Donaldson, Mark D. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies, received The Marc & Sheri Rapaport Core Teaching Award, created to recognize teaching excellence in the undergraduate core based on course evaluation ratings. Donaldson is also the recipient of this year's Award for Excellence in Teaching Among the Standing Faculty.

Other undergraduate teaching awards went to Jamshed Ghandhi, (finance), Lorin Hitt, (operations and information management), William S. Laufer, (legal studies), Philip M. Nichols (legal studies), Madhav V. Rajan (accounting), and Jeremy J. Siegel (finance).

On the graduate level, The Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, awarded for teaching quality and commitment to students, went to Robert P. Inman, Miller-Sherrerd Professor and professor of finance, public policy and management, and real estate.

Nine professors also won graduate-level Excellence in Teaching Awards, given on the basis of student evaluations. The professor with the highest rating also receives the Class of 1884 Award. This year, Philip Berger, associate professor of accounting, won the Class of 1984 Award. Other Excellence in Teaching Award winners were: Franklin Allen (finance), Michael Brandt (finance), Stuart Diamond (legal studies), Thomas J. Donaldson (legal studies), Michael Gibbons (finance ck), William S. Laufer (legal studies), Andrew Metrick (finance), and William C. Tyson (legal studies).

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