Faculty honored for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education

Eight Stanford faculty members have been appointed or re-appointed as 2023 Bass University Fellows for their extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education.

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Sarah Church announced the fellows during the Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday.

The fellows begin their five-year terms in the 2023-24 academic year and are invited to join the Bass Council of Fellows, which advises the vice provost for undergraduate education on a range of issues. Once faculty members rotate out of their individual fellow appointments, they become Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education in perpetuity.

The Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program was established in 2001 and named in honor of Anne T., MLA ’07, and Robert M. Bass, MBA ’74, who provided matching funds to launch the fellowship.

Each appointment is named in honor of donors who made significant gifts to the Stanford Endowment for Undergraduate Education during the Campaign for Undergraduate Education, which ended in 2005.

New and reappointed Bass Fellows

Mark Cappelli, professor of mechanical engineering, was appointed the Bert and Candace Forbes University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Jenna Davis, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean of integrative initiatives at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Higgins-Magic Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, was appointed the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

James (Jay) Hamilton, the Hearst Professor of Communication and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, was appointed the J. Frederick and Elisabeth Brewer Weintz University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Mary Beth Mudgett, senior associate dean for the natural sciences and professor of biology, was reappointed as the Stanford Friends University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Grant Parker, associate professor of classics and by courtesy, of comparative literature, was appointed the Louise and Claude Rosenberg, Jr. University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Dustin (Dusty) Schroeder, associate professor of geophysics, of electrical engineering, and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, was appointed the William and Lynda Steere University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Lisa Surwillo, associate professor of Iberian and Latin American cultures, was appointed the W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Elaine Treharne, the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor and professor, by courtesy, of German studies and of comparative literature, was reappointed as the Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.