Wharton honors 10 professors

Wharton students gave a special "thank you" to 10 of their most deserving professors this week. The professors, whose names were announced by the Wharton School this week, are recipients of the 1990 Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Awards. The awards are given to those Wharton professors who received the highest overall ratings on the teaching evaluation forms filled out by students at the end of each semester. Standing faculty who taught an undergraduate course or courses with a total of at least 20 students in 1990 were eligible for the awards. In the concentration of management, Management and Technology Professor William Hamilton, Management Assistant Professor Stewart Friedman and Social Architecture and Management Professor Howard Perlmutter received awards. Legal Studies Assistant Professors William Laufer and G. Richard Shell were also recognized for their teaching talents. Accounting and Finance Professor Robert Holthausen, Statistics and Operations Research Professor Abba Krieger, Finance and Economics Professor Franklin Allen, Marketing Assistant Professor Peter Fader and Finance and Real Estate Associate Professor Susan Wachter were also recipients of this year's awards. Consensus among the professors was that it is "gratifying" to be recognized by the students in this manner. "It is very gratifying to have teaching awards to reflect the effort [professors] put into courses," said Wachter. "It helps bring attention to why we are all here, which is to teach, as well as, do research." "I've won other teaching awards," said Krieger. "But it is still very nice." The Wharton Undergraduate Graduation Committee, who made the final decisions after the evaluation ratings were tabulated, had a difficult time in choosing this year's recipients. "Because there are a large number of faculty mambers who meet these conditions, being in the top ten indicates how highly regarded those selected are," said Wharton sophomore Kara Hewett in a statement. The recipients will be recognized at the Wharton undergraduate commencement ceremony in May. The photographs of each recipient will then be placed on the wall in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.

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