Teacher of the Year Award

This award is intended to honor a Graduate Program in Life Sciences faculty member with an outstanding record of teaching graduate students.

The nominee must be a member of the UMB Graduate Faculty and at least one of the GPILS graduate programs.

The following items are required by the committee:

Two separate letters from individual graduate students
The candidate’s curriculum vitae with detailed information on previous and current teaching activities and, if possible, a teaching portfolio with student evaluations

2023: Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2022: Nevil Singh, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

2021: Mary Kay Lobo, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

2020: Alex Poulopoulos, PhD- Department of Pharmacology

2019: Daniel Weinreich, PhD - Department of Pharmacology

2018: Brian Polster, PhD - Department of Anesthesiology

2017: Donald "Rick" Matteson, PhD - Department of Physiology

2016: Sania Amr, MD - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

2015: Joseph Kao, PhD - Department of Physiology

2014: Mark Williams, PhD - Department of Microbiology & Immunology

2013: Bret Hassel, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

2012: Gerald Wilson, PhD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2011: Jeff Winkles, PhD - Department of Surgery

2010: Paul Welling, MD - Department of Physiology

2009: Stuart Martin, PhD - Department of Physiology

2008: Martin Flajnik, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

2007: Gerard Barcak, PhD - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology