Top-notch teachers
Edo Berger, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, and Anne Pringle, an associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, have been named the recipients of this year’s Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching. Established through a gift from Gardner Hendrie ’54, the prize is awarded annually in recognition of exceptional teaching in introductory courses; it carries a $10,000 personal award and $40,000 in unrestricted support for teaching and research. A faculty committee with members from across the sciences at Harvard nominated Berger and Pringle; Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science and Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics and professor of computational science, made the selections. “Edo Berger and Anne Pringle are great examples of the excellent teaching that happens in Harvard’s classrooms on a daily basis,” said FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, also the John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “As comments from their students...