Faculty Excellence Awards
McCombs announces 2020–21 Teaching and Research Award Winners
Each spring, faculty committees at McCombs scour departmental nominations to select winners for a slate of awards recognizing excellence in teaching and research over the past year at the business school.
Teaching Awards
Tushmit Hasan, a doctoral student in Marketing, won the Fred Moore Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence.
David Quintanilla, lecturer in Business, Government and Society, took home the Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes. This award specifically targets innovation in the classroom through multi-media and special materials.
Andrew Brodsky, assistant professor of Management, was awarded the Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors.
Ty Henderson, associate professor of Marketing, won the Joe D. Beasley Award, which extols teaching excellence in the MBA curriculum.
Christopher Meakin, senior lecturer in Business, Government and Society, was given the Jim Nolen Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
Robert Parrino, the Lamar Savings Centennial Professor of Finance, received the Excellence in Education Award. Allocated only every other year to tenure-track faculty, the award recognizes teaching excellence and significant contributions to education over an extended career.
Eric Bickel, professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Information, Risk, and Operations management, was awarded the Fawn & Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education. The award honors new methodologies, customization of materials, and the creation of new programs in the suite of non-degree, executive education offerings.
Research Awards
Shefali Patil, assistant professor of Management, was awarded the CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors.
Jamie Schmidt, associate professor of Accounting, and Raghunath Rao, and associate professor of Marketing, each earned Research Excellence Awards for Associate Professors.
Vijay Mahajan, professor of Marketing and holder of the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business, was presented with the Award for Research Excellence. The award recognizes faculty who have made a significant research contribution in one or more functional areas of business.
Thaleia Zariphopoulou, professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, was granted the Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions. The award recognizes singularly significant research contributions made over an extended period of time.
