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'''.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/lindback "Awards and Honors: Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching" | University Archives and Records Center]</ref>

==History== Christian Lindback was the president and owner of Abbotts Dairies.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref>[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...]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4rYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lindback+Award&pg=PA91 ''Keystone Folklore Quarterly'' - Google Books]</ref> The award includes an honorarium and a medallion.<ref>[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]</ref>

==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 *Zack Ives (born 1972), computer scientist 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 *George E. Atwood (born 1944), psychotherapist, psychoanalytic theorist, and emeritus Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University

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Category:American education awards Category:Awards established in 1961 Category:1961 establishments in the United States