Professor Margaret Vandenburg Wins Emily Gregory Award
New York, NY-- Margaret Vandenburg, Senior Lecturer and Director of First-Year English in the English Department, will be honored Monday, April 19th as the winner of this year's Emily Gregory Award, which celebrates excellence in teaching by the Barnard faculty.
The 30th annual dinner will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Sulzberger Parlor of Barnard Hall. A reception begins at 6:00 p.m. and the Barnard community is invited, and students may attend at no cost. The dinner will be held on April 19th, 2004 in the Brooks Living Room from 6:45-8:00pm. A reception will be held in the Vagelos Alumnae Center from 6:00-6:45 for those who wish to attend. There is a charge of 15$ for faculty; students are free.
Barnard student Kineret Fischer nominated this year's recipient for the award, which celebrates and honors one Barnard professor annually for their excellence in teaching and service to the Barnard College community.
"I am particularly gratified to receive the Emily Gregory Award because it is an honor generated by students," said Vandenburg. "Of course academics love to think and talk endlessly about ideas. How lucky we are to teach at a college where students so enthusiastically participate in the life of the mind. Receiving recognition as a teacher at Barnard is tantamount to stacking privilege upon privilege."
A campus tradition since 1974, the award is named after former Columbia University Professor Emily Lovira Gregory, who began teaching in 1889. Gregory was the first woman to be awarded the title of full professor at Columbia University, and among the first in the United States to receive a doctorate in an era during which women were excluded from the realm of higher academia.
After receiving her Ph.D. in botany, and teaching at various universities, including Bryn Mawr and Harvard, Emily Gregory taught at Barnard initially as an unpaid professor, intent on creating academic opportunities for Barnard women that would equal those at Columbia College.
For more information about the event, contact Isa Loundon, Chair of the 30 th Annual Emily Gregory Award, at (212) 851-1613 or il164@barnard.edu. |
