Faculty- and Department-based teaching awards

There are a number of Faculty-based awards for University teaching. Some are awarded on a periodic basis, while others are awarded fairly consistently. If your specific Faculty or teaching unit has an award, please tls [at] mcgill.ca (contact us) so that we can create a link to this information.

Some annually awarded Faculty-based teaching awards include:

Desautels Faculty of Management

Distinguished Teaching Award

Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Award for Teaching Excellence

Faculty of Arts

H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching

Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching

Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

Howard S. Katz Award for Excellence in Teaching

Faculty of Education

Award for Distinguished Teaching

Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz Award for Excellence in Teaching

Faculty of Engineering

Awards for Outstanding Teaching

Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision & Teaching

David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision & Teaching

Faculty of Law

The Durnford Teaching Excellence Award

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence  - Past and Present Honourees

Haile T. Debas Prize & Maude Abbott Prize

Human Genetics

Osler Teaching Award & Department of Psychiatry Teaching Award

Student and Faculty Awards for Teaching Innovation

W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching

Faculty of Science

Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching

School of Continuing Studies

Award for Distinguished Teaching

Schulich School of Music

Teaching Awards


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