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AROUND THE QUADSHood, Shahabuddin To Receive Great Teacher AwardsJames F. Bender Professor of Psychology Donald C. Hood and Perwez Shahabuddin, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at SEAS, will receive the 2004 Great Teacher Awards at the Society of Columbia Graduates Awards Dinner in Low Rotunda on Wednesday, September 29. Hood, a Columbia faculty member since 1969, is committed to undergraduate teaching and often works with students in advanced courses that train them for graduate work. He received the 1993 Mark Van Doren Award for Outstanding Teaching. Hood, who served as the University’s vice president for Arts and Sciences from 1982–87, has been chair of the psychology department on several occasions and served on the College’s Committee on Instruction from 1993–97. In 1992, he was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Hood has been on the editorial board of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science since 1992, and has served as a trustee for Smith College since 1989, for the Guggenheim Foundation since 1996, and for Brown University since 2002. He received his B.A. from SUNY Harpur (1965) and his M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1969) from Brown. Shahabuddin, who has taught at SEAS since 1995, was a researcher at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he specialized in systems analysis. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Shahabuddin received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford in 1990. In 1997, he received the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award given by SEAS alumni. In addition to the Great Teacher Awards, a special service award will be given to Professor J.W. Smit, the Queen Wilhelmina Professor of the History of the Low Countries, for his continuing commitment to undergraduate teaching and his unique contributions as a teacher of all four of Columbia’s principal Core Curriculum courses. The Great Teacher Awards have been presented since 1949, one apiece to faculty members from the College and SEAS, based on their ability to stimulate, challenge and inspire students and to make effective oral presentations; a demonstrated interest in students and the ability to relate positively to students outside the classroom; and a recognized standing in academic discipline. For information about the Awards Dinner, contact Alexandra Baranetsky at (973) 376-2212 or ab665@columbia.edu.
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