College Teaching Awards
The College Teaching Awards honor exemplary teaching by faculty members within the seven colleges at Carnegie Mellon. Each college selects their own recipient(s) based on specific criteria and they are chosen throughout the academic year, depending on the college's award cycle. The most recent awardees are again recognized at the Celebration of Education award ceremony.
2025 Award Recipients
College of Engineering

Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award
Professor, Founder and Director of CEE-TP
College of Fine Arts

Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award
Assistant Teaching Professor and Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program
Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service
Lecturer - Special Faculty
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

Martcia Wade Teaching Award
Xiaoying Tu
Assistant Teaching Professor
Assistant Teaching Professor
Mellon College of Science

The Julius Ashkin Teaching Award
Jason Howell
Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Mellon College of Science
The Richard Moore Education Award
Curtis A. Meyer
Professor of Physics, MCS Associate Dean
Professor of Physics, MCS Associate Dean
School of Computer Science

Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence
Anne Kohlbrenner
Assistant Teaching Professor
Assistant Teaching Professor
Tepper School of Business

Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award in the B.S. Business Administration Program
Derek Leben
Associate Teaching Professor of Ethics
Associate Teaching Professor of Ethics
Tepper School of Business

Richard M. Cyert Teaching Award in the B.S. Economics Program
Anh Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics
Tepper School of Business
Tepper School of Business
Past Recipients
College of Engineering
Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Jon Peha | Professor, Founder and Director of CEE-TP |
| 2024 | Jiang-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu | ABB Professor; Director, Data Storage Systems Center |
| 2024 | Gregory Kesden | Associate Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| 2022-23 | Mark Bedillion | Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
College of Fine Arts
Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Sarosh Anklesaria | Assistant Teaching Professor and Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program |
| 2024 | Lance LaDuke | Associate Teaching Professor in Euphonium and Music Entrepreneurship |
| 2022-23 | Imin Yeh | Associate Professor of Art, Director of Foundational Studies |
Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Gordon Weinberg | Lecturer, Special Faculty |
| 2024 | Gang Liu | Teaching Professor, Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics |
| 2022-23 | Daniel M. Oppenheimer | Professor, Social and Decision Sciences and Professor of Psychology |
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Martcia Wade Teaching Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Xiaoying Tu | Assistant Teaching Professor |
| 2024 | Akshaya Jha | Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy |
| 2022-23 | Karyn Moore | Associate Teaching Professor |
Mellon College of Science
The Julius Ashkin Teaching Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Jason Howell | Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences |
| 2024 | Kenneth Hovis | Associate Teaching Professor and MCS Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives |
| 2022-23 | Markus Deserno | Professor, Physics |
The Richard Moore Education Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Curtis A. Meyer | Professor of Physics, MCS Associate Dean |
| 2024 | Karen Stump | Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs, Chemistry |
| 2022-23 | John Mackey | Teaching Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science |
| 2022-23 | David Yaron | Professor, Chemistry |
School of Computer Science
Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Anne Kohlbrenner | Assistant Teaching Professor |
| 2024 | Daniel Anderson | Assistant Teaching Professor |
| 2022-23 | Michael Taylor | Assistant Teaching Professor |
Tepper School of Business
Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award in the B.S. Business Administration Program |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Derek Leben | Associate Teaching Professor of Ethics |
| 2024 | Robert T. Monroe | Teaching Professor of Business Technologies |
| 2022-23 | Carla Bevins | Assistant Teaching Professor, Business Communication |
Richard M. Cyert Teaching Award in the B.S. Economics Program |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Anh Nguyen | Assistant Professor of Economics |
| 2024 | Laurence Ales | Professor of Economics |
| 2022-23 | Nicholas Z. Muller | Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering and Public Policy |
George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Laurence Ales | Professor of Economics |
| 2024 | Meredith Meyer Grelli | Assistant Professor |
| 2022-23 | Sunkee Lee | Frank A. and Helen E. Risch Assistant Professor of Organizational Theory and Strategy |
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the MSBA program |
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| Year | Name | Title |
| 2025 | Mattia Ciollaro | Teaching Professor |
| 2022-23 | Alan Montgomery | Professor of Marketing; Head, Ph.D. Program |

