The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award is given out by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation."Awards and Honors: Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching" , University Archives and Records Center
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History

Christian Lindback was the president and owner of Abbotts Dairies. He was also a trustee of

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. His foundation established the Lindback Awards, for distinguished teaching at colleges and universities in

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. The award includes an honorarium and a medallion.Students vote for Lindback Teaching Award recipient , , villanovan.com
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Notable recipients

* Matthew Adler (born 1962), Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. * Norman Adler (1941-2016), professor of behavioral neurobiology and evolutionary psychology *

Nina Auerbach Nina Auerbach (May 24, 1943 in New York City – February 4, 2017) was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration was nineteenth-century England. She published, lecture ...

(1943-2017), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the

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* Michelle Francl, Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, and Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory * Henry Gleitman (1925–2015), Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania *

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(born 1937), Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School * Margaret Hastings (1910–1970), historian of Medieval English legal history * Vijay Kumar (born 1962), roboticist and professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania * Helen Kwalwasser (1927-2017), Professor Emeritus of violin at Temple University *

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(born 1953), the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the

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References

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