Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships Awarded to

Four Faculty Members for Excellence

AUSTIN, Texas — Four faculty members at The University of Texas

at Austin have been selected to hold a Dads' Association

Centennial Teaching Fellowship during the 2011-12 fall semester.

Dr. Steven W. Leslie, executive vice president and provost, said

the award reflects the recipients' teaching excellence and

commitment and an acknowledgment of the many contributions they

have made to the undergraduate experience for students at the

university.

The recipients are Senior Lecturer Michael D. Scott,

Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences;

Associate Professor Byron

P. Almen, Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts;

Professor Robert

Crosnoe, the Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr.

Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, departments of Sociology and

Psychology, College of Liberal Arts; and Associate Professor Mark

G. Longaker, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of

Liberal Arts.

Recipients of the award will receive a $3,500 honorarium, Leslie

said.

Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships were

established by the University of Texas System Board of Regents in

1983 with funds raised by the university's Dads' Association and

matching funds under the Centennial Teachers and Scholars Program.

Selection of faculty members appointed as Dads' Association

Centennial Teaching Fellows is based upon recommendations from the

deans of colleges and schools offering courses for freshman

undergraduates.