LEWISBURG — Bucknell University Interim Provost Margot Vigeant recently recognized six faculty members from across the university’s three colleges who embody and exceed the calling of their profession with awards for inspiring teaching.
Receiving 2023 teaching awards were:
• Nina Banks, economics: Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Banks teaches what her nominators describe as “high-impact courses” that successfully challenge students to reexamine their beliefs and think critically about the topics of race and gender. She is credited with developing courses across Bucknell’s curriculum, including a foundation seminar on the Great Migration, an Integrated Perspectives course in collaboration with the history…