Twenty University of Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and three faculty were honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, but recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations.
Saturday evening, April 2nd, the Industrial Designer's Society of America's Midwest District Conference, John Traub was named the 2011 Midwest Merit Award Winner, a prestigious honor ranking him as one of the five best graduating ID students in the country.
Second year MFA painting candidate Jackson Zorn received the honor of having his work included in the 2011 Wet Paint Exhibition in Chicago, and now his work will be included in a traveling exhibition to China.
The National Wet Paint Exhibition is an unprecedented show that will feature top MFAs from colleges and universities across the United States and will travel to two venues in China: the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Museum of Shunde.
Out of a pool of approximately 150 applicants, Jason Cytacki (MFA 2011) has accepted a tenure-track teaching position in painting at the University of Oklahoma where he will begin his new job in the fall of this year. Being one of two full-time painting faculty, he will play a strong role in building the painting program of the art department.
Senior art history student, Brigid Mangano ('11), wins the Philip L. Quinn Essay Prize as part of the 2011 Annual Gender Studies Essay Writing Prize Competition.
