The annual awards recognize the achievements and contributions of Temple’s faculty.

The annual Faculty Teaching, Research and Creative Awards honored faculty across disciplines, including in English, dance, medicine and pharmacy.

Temple's faculty award winners represent the university’s most distinguished professors, whose achievements include breakthroughs in the study of mood disorders, neurodegenerative processes and neonatal lung support, as well as the inspiration and skilled mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students.

Jeffrey Solow, a cellist and professor of instrumental studies at Temple, brings an abundance of experience in performing, recording, writing and publishing to his role as teacher and mentor.

William M. Wuest, an assistant professor of chemistry at Temple University’s College of Science and Technology, has been named a recipient of one of the first new investigator awards from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation. The award will support his research on drug resistance in bacteria.

Temple’s 2013 Philadelphia Flower Show Exhibit, “WILDE! Cultivating wonder in everyday places” was awarded The Alfred M. Campbell Memorial Trophy, given to the “Educational major exhibit that demonstrates the most successful use of a variety of plants in a unique fashion,” and a PHS Special Achievement Award.

Great Teacher Award honorees Shohreh Amini, professor of neuroscience and biology, and Sarah Bass, associate professor of public health, are among a dozen outstanding Temple faculty who will be recognized at tomorrow's Faculty Awards Luncheon.