Faculty Awards and Achievements
Dean Richard Scheines Receives Doherty Award for Three Decades of Educational Innovation and Leadership
Dietrich College Bess Family Dean Richard Scheines received the Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions to Excellence in Education at CMU’s 2024 Celebration of Education. For more than 30 years, Scheines — as professor, department head and dean — has been at the forefront of developing educational programs that benefit learners at CMU and across the globe. His early innovations included employing AI to create interactive tutors for learning formal logic and developing online courses for causal reasoning. As a department head and dean, Scheines set a bold vision to educate students to solve problems across disciplinary boundaries and to create engaged citizens and professionals through experiential learning.
Joe Trotter and Jackie Wu Honored by AHA for Excellence in History and Social Justice
The American Historical Association (AHA) honored Joe William Trotter Jr. and Jackie Wu (DC, TPR 2022) with 2024 awards. Trotter, the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), received the John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice. Wu, an advisee of Trotter, received the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student.
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