Teaching

This year, Marissa Diener, associate professor in family and consumer studies, was awarded the U's Distinguished Faculty Service Award. Professor Diener has worked with the Bennion Center to include service learning within her curriculum and is a strong campus voice for its widespread application in higher education. Professor Diener joins a history of teaching excellence that includes three Rosenblatt Prize winners, six Distinguished Professors, 14 Distinguished Teaching Awards, five college and student choice teaching awards and three anthropology faculty who are in the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, the college recognized Kathleen Nicoll in geography and Heather Melton in sociology as the junior and senior recipients of the CSBS Superior Teaching Award.