The Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Advising and Mentoring

This award will be presented again in 2013.

2011 Academic Advising Award Recipient

Karen H. Stump

Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Laboratories, Department of Chemistry

Karen Stump joined the Department of Chemistry in 1983 and is a Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Laboratories. Her responsibilities include undergraduate education, advising, educational outreach, TA training and administrative oversight of the undergraduate program in chemistry. Currently she teaches 09-221, Laboratory I: Introduction to Chemical Analysis as well as the undergraduate seminar sequence in chemistry and she is the primary academic advisor for students majoring or minoring in chemistry.

As chemistry's departmental liaison and a member of the executive committee for the Undergraduate Science Laboratory renovations project in Doherty Hall, she was instrumental in more than a decade of intensive planning that led to the project's groundbreaking in 2001. A distinctive feature of her educational contributions has been her success in creating and sustaining educational outreach programs for kindergarten through 12th grade students and science teachers. She initiated and administered the Westinghouse Science and Mathematics Program for minority students and has directed several residential programs for teachers in districts throughout Pennsylvania.

She is a past winner of the Julius Ashkin Award, the college level teaching award in MCS, was the 2003 and 2005 recipient of the Greek Council Outstanding Faculty Member Award, in 2002 received the regional Responsible Care Catalyst Award for excellence in college chemistry teaching from the American Chemistry Council and was the 2005 recipient of the William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching.