CARL J. WEBER Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching Award
This award was established in 2006 in memory of Dr. Carl Weber, Assistant Professor Emeritus in the UMBC Department of Biological Sciences, as a tribute to his passion for classroom teaching. The annual award honors a faculty member at UMBC with exceptional dedication to teaching as demonstrated by his or her enthusiasm, up-to-date teaching materials, effective mentoring, community service in the teaching area, approachability, rigorous learning requirements, coherent teaching philosophy and inspirational teaching style. Each fall, beginning in 2008, the Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences will call for nominations for this award. Any CNMS faculty member is eligible for the award. Nominations may be made by faculty, alumni, and students in any of the CNMS graduate and undergraduate programs as well as CNMS groups, such as the councils of majors. A selection committee of CNMS faculty members and students, both graduate and undergraduates, review the application packets and then, as a group, make a recommendation to the CNMS Dean, who then names the award winner.
Carl J. Weber
The inaugural award was presented at the CNMS Student Recognition Day ceremony on May 8, 2009 to Bonny Tighe, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics who started at UMBC as a full time instructor in 1988. She is an outstanding educator who teaches four courses every semester. In addition to coordinating and teaching an array of courses from Mathematics for elementary School Teachers to Calculus II, Ms. Tighe is a dedicated faculty member who serves on student-focused committees, trains teaching assistants, serves as a faculty mentor and advises a variety of student organizations. Ms. Tighe also teaches mathematics for the annual Meyerhoff Scholars’ Summer Bridge Program. She is an amazing person who, as the first recipient of the Weber Award, is a tribute to Carl Weber’s legacy of teaching excellence at UMBC.
