University of Massachusetts - Computer Science
 
 

Award-winning Teachers

The Department's dedication to undergraduate teaching is reflected in the many awards faculty have received over the years.  Ten faculty members have received Lilly Teaching Fellowships, from a competitive awards program established in 1986 to cultivate teaching excellence.  Shown below are Lilly Fellowship winners David Mix Barrington, Brian Levine, Prashant Shenoy, Emery Berger, Ramesh Sitaraman, James Allan, J. Eliot B. Moss, Jim Kurose, Andrew McCallum.  (Prof. Mark Corner, also a Lilly Fellow, is not shown.)

 

Professors Roderic Grupen, Victor Lesser, Jim Kurose, Arnold Rosenberg and Brian Levine have been winners of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award. Professors Sridhar Mahadevan and Lee Osterweil won similar awards at Michigan State University and the University of Colorado respectively.

Jim Kurose is also an eight-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technical University, winner of the 1996 Outstanding Teacher Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools and of the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal. With former Dean of the College of Engineering Joseph Goldstein, he founded the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI), for which they received a Public Service Award from the University of Massachusetts President's Office in 2002. Now directed by Joe and Professor Rick Adrion, CITI aims to improve computer science education across the 28-campus system of Massachusetts public higher education.