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Excellence in Teaching Award

Betty Love, Ph.D., 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient.

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Candice Batton (left), Chancellor Joanne Li, Betty Love, Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, Interim Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Deborah Smith-Howell, and Interim Dean Melanie Bloom.

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Candice Batton (left), Chancellor Joanne Li, Betty Love, Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, Interim Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Deborah Smith-Howell, and Interim Dean Melanie Bloom.

Excellence in Teaching Award

The Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Nebraska Omaha was established in 1969 to recognize superior efforts, dedication, and exemplary conduct in the performance of the University’s first task, the education of its students.

Dedicated and effective teachers are a university’s most important asset. At UNO, we have among us those whose performance merits special attention.


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Betty Love, Ph.D.

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences

Betty Love, Ph.D., is professor of math and has taught over 25 different courses at UNO, from general-education quantitative literacy courses to graduate mathematics courses. She has also published in a wide variety of journals, including those in operations research, computer science, geosciences, and education. She was among the first faculty to teach an online course and was an early adopter of the flipped classroom. Love was awarded two NSF grants to develop new general-education quantitative literacy courses—in one, students use math and computer programming to create art; the other is a service-learning course in which students learn data literacy and visualization, then apply these skills to help area non-profit organizations.

Dr. Love has been a faculty leader in Math with a career at UNO for 30+ years. She has made students love math, a topic that is often dreaded, and has had a broad impact on students, given the number of general education courses taught. Dr. Love has impacted the teaching of math beyond UNO through her contributions to the teacher education program and the videos that she has developed, one of which has more than 350,000 views. Finally, it should be noted that Dr. Love fosters an inclusive learning environment and has been a leader in engaging women in math in general.


Nomination Information

Download the Excellence in Teaching Award nomination criteria and forms


Most Recent Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients

Year Recipient Department/School
2021 Kelly Gomez-Johnson Teacher Education
2020 Ramazan Kilinc Political Science
2019 Brian Dorn Computer Science
2018 Jennifer Riley Accounting
2017 Tammie Kennedy English
2016 Abbie Syrek Communication
2015 William Mahoney Interdisciplinary Informatics
2014 John McCarty Biology

View the complete list of previous award recipients

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