Lindback Award
{{Short description|American education award}}
The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award is given out by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation.[https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/lindback "Awards and Honors: Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching" | University Archives and Records Center]
History
Christian Lindback was the president and owner of Abbotts Dairies. He was also a trustee of Bucknell University. His foundation established the Lindback Awards, for distinguished teaching at colleges and universities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.{{cite web |title=Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=coQrDwAAQBAJ&dq=Lindback+Award&pg=PA273 A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board...][https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4rYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lindback+Award&pg=PA91 Keystone Folklore Quarterly - Google Books] The award includes an honorarium and a medallion.[http://www.villanovan.com/students-vote-for-lindback-teaching-award-recipient/article_09eb934c-89af-5de3-a96c-3762b8baaf20.html Students vote for Lindback Teaching Award recipient | | villanovan.com]
Notable recipients
- Matthew Adler (born 1962), Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.
- Norman Adler (1941-2016), professor of behavioral neurobiology and evolutionary psychology
- Nina Auerbach (1943–2017), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania
- Michelle Francl, Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, and Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory
- Henry Gleitman (1925–2015), Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania
- Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Margaret Hastings (1910–1970), historian of Medieval English legal history
- Vijay Kumar (born 1962), roboticist and professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania
- Helen Kwalwasser (1927–2017), Professor Emeritus of violin at Temple University
- Corinne Hogden Robinson (1909–2005), Head of the Food and Nutrition Department at Drexel University
- Amy Wax (born 1953), the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School