It gives us great pleasure to announce that Professor Eve Troutt Powell has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. We applaud Professor Troutt Powell's extraordinary commitment to the education of our students.
The Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching for Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences seeks to recognize teaching that is intellectually rigorous and exceptionally coherent and that leads to an informed understanding of a discipline. Recipients of the Ira Abrams Memorial Award are expected to embody high standards of integrity and fairness, to have a strong commitment to learning, and to be open to new ideas. As the School of Arts and Sciences' highest teaching honor, the Abrams Award recognizes faculty who have sustained records of teaching excellence.