School-Specific Teaching Awards

Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (H&S)

Award specifications are as follows:

  1. Excellence in Graduate Education:  Must be a faculty member, senior lecturer, or lecturer whose activities in support of graduate education are exemplary.
  2. Achievements in Teaching, such as instituting a new undergraduate or graduate curricular reform:  Must be faculty members, senior lecturers, or lecturers whose record of the past year shows particular accomplishments in teaching, defined broadly to include the classroom, laboratory, advising, programs leadership, etc.
  3. First Years of Teaching at Stanford (up to two winners):  Must be junior faculty whose teaching deserves special recognition.

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Teaching Award (School of Education)

The Teaching Award is given in recognition for outstanding service as teacher and mentor to the students of the School of Education at Stanford University.

MBA Distinguished Teaching Award (GSB)

Each year, GSB students participate in a long-standing and highly-regarded tradition of recognizing excellence in teaching by selecting a faculty member to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award. The award gives students the opportunity to formally honor and celebrate achievement in this critical area. Nominations are solicited from the entire GSB student body for professors and lecturers to receive the award. A selection committee of 5 students carefully weighs the number and quality of all the nominations received and represents the MBA student body in selecting the winner. The winner is announced at an official ceremony in May.

Sloan Distinguished Teaching Award (GSB)

Sloan students acknowledge and appreciate distinguished teaching in the Sloan core classes.

Ph.D. Distinguished Service Award (GSB)

In order to recognize exceptional efforts put forth by faculty, the PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award will be given to a faculty member who, through teaching or advising, has made an exceptional contribution to the intellectual development of the Stanford GSB PhD community.

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John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching (Law School)

The John B. Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in 1974 at a law alumni banquet held in his honor, and a portrait of Professor Hurlbut was presented to the Law School by the class of 1940.  Since then the graduating class annually selects the recipient of the Hurlbut award, who addresses the class at its Commencement exercises.

Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (School of Engineering)

This award is a singular honor awarded to one professor, assistant professor, or associate professor from the School of Engineering each year in recognition of his or her dedication to teaching undergraduates.  To be worthy of this award, a professor must go beyond simply explaining the material or getting midterms back on time.  This sort of teacher is exceptional in front of the class, welcoming and useful during office hours, and devoted in all aspects of the learning process.

Excellence in Teaching (School of Earth Sciences)

This award was established in 1982 to acknowledge and recognize faculty's dedication to quality teaching.

The Arthur L. Bloomfield Award in Recognition of Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine (Medical School)

In honor of Arthur L. Bloomfield, Chairman of the Department of Medicine from 1926 - 1954, a generous gift was made to the school by many of his friends, colleagues, and former students at Stanford.  This award was established in recognition of Dr. Bloomfield's reputation as a gifted teacher, and eligible recipients are individuals from the Stanford faculty who excel as teachers in clinical medicine.  The Award recipients (two to three each year, depending on the votes) are recognized at the Medical School Commencement Ceremony.

The Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching (Medical School)

The Medical School received in 1969 a generous gift from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation for the purpose of making awards annually to members of the faculty who are recognized for their excellence in clinical teaching.

The Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical Education (Medical School)

(Note: This is not a teaching award per se, but the Medical School includes it on their list of Teaching Awards.)

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation made a generous gift to support an annual award to a faculty member in the Medical School who has made innovative and outstanding contributions to medical education. 

The Kaiser Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching (Medical School)

The Medical School received in 1969 a generous gift from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation for the purpose of making awards annually to members of the faculty who are recognized for their excellence in preclinical teaching.

The Lawrence H. Mathers Award for Faculty Instructors - Clinical orPreclinicalInstruction (Medical School)

The award was established in honor of Lawrence H. Mathers, who contributed to the Stanford community as a student and faculty member from 1966 to 2002 and served for many years as the Chief of Human Anatomy.  The Lawrence H. Mathers Award recognizes an individual (Deans, clinical faculty, adjunct faculty and administrators) at Stanford who interacts with students and exemplifies the values and accomplishments of Dr. Mathers' work and life – always available or makes extra time available to address student concerns and needs; arranges unique clinical experiences or practica; responds to student interests by initiating academic courses or extracurricular activities to meet unmet student needs.  This award recognizes an exceptional commitment to teaching and mentoring of students inside and/or outside the classroom and also to inspiring and facilitating the personal and professional development of students.

The Franklin G. Ebaugh Advising Award (Medical School) 

(Note: This is not a teaching award per se, but the Medical School includes it on their list of Teaching Awards.)

The Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Advising Award is given to a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding dedication to advising medical students.  The awardee embodies those qualities for which FrankEbaugh was recognized and which made him an outstanding advisor-being supportive, informative, understanding, and available.

Dean's Office Award for Excellence in Teaching (School of Medicine)

This award was established by Dr. Julie Parsonnet and acknowledges faculty for their excellence in teaching.  Awardees are selected based on "comment counts" in student course/clerkship evaluations; course directors can also nominate faculty from their courses.

The Stanford University School of Medicine Award for Graduate Teaching (Medical School)

This award recognizes faculty whose teaching of graduate students is distinguished and especially valued by members of the Medical School faculty and the graduate students.