UTSA Faculty Member Receives Piper Professor Award

Judith Gorman Gardner, lecturer and coordinator of composition in the UTSA Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communication, has received a Piper Professor Award for her teaching achievements. Gardner has been with UTSA since 1980.

The Piper Professor Award was established by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation in 1958 and brings recognition to outstanding achievement in the teaching profession in colleges and universities in the State of Texas.

Gardner is the third UTSA faculty member to receive a Piper Professor Award in the last decade. The other recipients were Richard Utecht, assistant professor of marketing, and David Senseman, associate professor of life sciences.

Nominations for the awards are requested annually from all accredited institutions of higher learning in the state. An impartial selection committee from the academic community carefully reviews each nomination to choose those professors to be honored. Honorees receive a certificate, a cash award and a gold pin commemmorating the event.