The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching honors faculty members for superior teaching. Recipients are nominated by present and former students and colleagues and are chosen by a committee of alumni, students, and faculty. They receive a cash award of $3,000, made possible by contributions from the Alumni Association, graduates, former students, and friends of Ohio State. They also receive a $1,200 increase in their base salaries from the Office of Academic Affairs. The recipients will be inducted into the university's Academy of Teaching, which provides leadership for the improvement of teaching at Ohio State.

Rodney F. Plimpton Outstanding Young Teacher Award
The Rodney F. Plimpton Outstanding Teacher Award is intended to recognize and encourage faculty members who exemplify excellence in and commitment to teaching. No more than two awards will be presented to faculty below the rank of professor. Each award includes a plaque and $500 for the recipient and $400 for the home department/school to enhance its teaching program.

Gamma Sigma Delta eaching Award of Merit
The first chapter of the Gamma Sigma Delta (GSD) Honorary Society of Agriculture started at The Ohio State University more than 100 years ago. Its mission is to promote and recognize eminent scholars in teaching, research, service, and international activities. For many decades, GSD has sponsored an award for teaching, which is given each year to a qualified faculty member who is nominated by peers and selected from among qualified nominees by a committee of previous winners. Faculty who are awarded the GSD Teaching Award of Merit become members of the College's Academy of Teaching. Academy members advise and assist the holder of the Sanford G. Price and Isabell Price Barbee Chair in Teaching, Advising and Learning in the development of activities which promote excellence in the scholarship in teaching and learning.

Pomerene Teaching Awards and Price Advising Awards
Each year one faculty member per department may be selected to receive a $1,000 Pomerene Department Teaching Award. Each chair/director is asked to nominate one of the units excellent teachers who are presented a certificate and cash award by the associate dean and the chair/director. These awards are funded by the Warner and Lora Pomerene Faculty Enhancement Fund.

Congratulations to faculty in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences who have been acknowledged as outstanding teachers and advisors.

In recognition of their outstanding teaching achievements, $1,000 is made possible by the Warner and Lora Pomerene Faculty Enhancement Fund to the recipient's department operating account for the winner's use. Also, in recognition of advising achievements, $500 is made possible by the Sanford G. "Sandy" Price and Isabelle Price Barbee Endowed Chair in Teaching, Advising, and Learning Fund.

We thank each of them for their dedication to teaching and advising students in the college.

Click here for a list of faculty members who have received the Pomerene Teaching and Price Advising Awards.