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Institute Fellow Stephen Birdsall wins Board of Governors award for excellence in teaching
Chapman Fellow Stephan Birdsall received UNC's highest teaching award.
April 24, 2007
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Stephen Birdsall, a 2003 Chapman Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, has won the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor in the UNC system.
Birdsall, professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is known for geography classes that are clear, interactive and fun. A member of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty since 1967, he is renowned for memorizing the names of every student, regardless of class size.
Established by the Board of Governors in April 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to reward good teaching across the university system, the awards are given annually to a tenured faculty member from each of the 16 UNC campuses.
Each winner receives a citation and one-time stipend of $7,500.
For more information, visit http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/pres/news/releases/pr2007/20070424_teachingawards.htm.
