Two College of Public Health instructors have been named recipients of Temple University’s teaching excellence awards. Jamie Mansell, associate dean for undergraduate studies, has received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and Heather Porter, professor of instruction in recreational therapy, will receive a Great Teacher Award. They joined CPH faculty members Sue Dickey and Lisa Ferretti in being honored at the university’s Faculty Awards Ceremony on April 10.

The Lindback Award recognizes faculty members who epitomize the highest levels of sustained teaching excellence in a classroom, laboratory, or clinical setting. The awards are funded with the help of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation of Philadelphia. Mansell teaches graduate courses in athletic training (AT) as associate professor of instruction and program director of the master's and doctoral AT programs in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research and teaching include athletic training programmatic assessment, sexual harassment in athletic training education, and cultural competency in athletic training. Mansell also serves as the secretary for the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society.

The Temple University Great Teacher Award, established in 1988 by the Board of Trustees, recognizes faculty members for continuous excellence in teaching. Each recipient's name is engraved on the Great Teachers Wall in the Founder's Garden on campus. Porter brings a clinical background in inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation to the classroom. She mentors recreational therapy (RT) students in manuscript development for publication and created the annual RT Evidence-Based Practice Day conference at Temple University and created and maintains RT Wise Owls to disseminate RT evidence-based practice information. Porter received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017 and is a past recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Public Health.