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Engineers Earn Tufts' Top Teaching Awards
Three members of the School of Engineering faculty have been selected to receive annual teaching and advising awards from the university.
Diane Souvaine, professor and department chair of computer science, is the recipient of the 2008 Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for outstanding teaching and advising. Linfield Brown, civil and environmental engineering (CEE) emeritus, won the Seymour O. Simches Award in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished teaching and advising. Brian Brenner, a professor of the practice also in CEE, won the Henry and Madeline Fischer Award.
Souvaine, Brown, and Brenner will receive their awards at the May 14, 2008 meeting of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering.
Souvaine, who has been on the faculty since 1998, was nominated by her faculty colleagues and students. The Leibner Award was established by the late Max Tishler, professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University and an emeritus member of the Tufts University Board of Trustees (1960-1980). This award was established and a fund endowed in perpetuity for this purpose in the names of Lillian and Joseph Leibner by members of their family. Every four years, a member of the School of Engineering faculty is nominated for this award.
Brown has been a faculty member since 1969 and recently became emeritus in 2007. Brown was also the recipient of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award in 1977. The Simches Award acknowledges the contributions of a senior member of the Arts, Sciences & Engineering faculty who has been a model of dedication for students and colleagues and has demonstrated a level of decency, civility and disposition that has shone on every member of the Tufts community. The award is named for Prof. Seymour O. Simches, who was one of Tufts' most popular teachers for nearly four decades and founding director of the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France. Simches, the John Wade Professor of Romance Languages emeritus, died on January 18, 2003, at age 83.
Brenner who has been a lecturer since 2001 and professor of the practice since 2004, was judged by the School of Engineering's graduating seniors to be "Engineering's Teacher of the Year." Brenner is recognized as a teacher who has demonstrated teaching excellence, inspired and motivated students to rise to their best, and has left them with a lasting and gratifying memory of a very special teacher and a profound intellectual experience.
