From left: Dean Huda Zurayk, Dr. Rima Afifi, President John Waterbury, Dr. Ayman Kayssi, Dr. Adnan Al-Alaoui and Dean Ibrahim Hajj.

This year AUB gave its first awards for excellence in teaching following the recommendation of the Interfaculty Committee for Teaching Excellence, made some years ago. In a special ceremony on June 26, 2003 in College Hall, AUB President John Waterbury gave the award to Dr. Rima Afifi of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) and Dr. Ayman Kayssi of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA). Present were Provost Peter Heath, Deans Khalil Bitar, Ibrahim Hajj, Huda Zurayk, Nuhad Daghir, Maroun Kisirwani, George Najjar and Associate Provost Waddah Nasr.

In a message to the AUB community, Provost Peter Heath detailed the selection process. "We received many excellent nominations for these awards but could unfortunately choose only two. The interfaculty committee which was entrusted with selecting the awardees was faced with a great challenge to narrow the field and select the final two winners. The committee spent many hours of difficult deliberation, carefully reading the dossiers and thoroughly examining the candidates' teaching evaluations."

The provost pointed out that nomination for this award is in itself a significant honor which should bring its own measure of recognition and satisfaction. He thanked all those nominated and all other faculty members, on behalf of AUB, for their fine past and future contributions to teaching.

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