Our own Professor Samir Salim has received a 2022 Trustees Teaching Award based on his outstanding performance in both classroom teaching and mentoring.
Salim is a thoughtful, highly effective educator who is clearly engaged in providing a good learning environment for students in general education courses. His classes are always well-prepared and carefully crafted. He draws students into key concepts, raising questions in students’ minds and motivating interest to understanding a concept in greater detail. Our majors enthusiastically endorse his Computational Astrophysics course, noting how much this course helps them be successful in other advanced courses for majors. Our graduate students tell us his Physical and Observational Cosmology course is one of their favorites. He helps students understand current ideas about cosmology as well as how our understanding of the universe has evolved over the past 100 years.
Salim is also an effective mentor for both undergraduate and graduate students, guiding them through completion of their projects and into the published literature. He is a credit to IU and to our department, and an inspiration to all of us for his dedication to teaching.
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