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

Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineerin ...

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

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, and

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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 Matthew D. Adler (born 1962) is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke Law School, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. Earlier in ...

(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 (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 * Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School *

Margaret Hastings Margaret Hastings (23 May 1910 – 20 October 1979) was an American historian of Medieval English legal history. Life and work Margaret Hastings was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 23 May 1910. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke Co ...

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

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...

References

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