“UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards”, UChicago News

May 26, 2021

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Fabrycky Photo by Jason Smith

Prof. Daniel Fabrycky received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship

It’s common for scientists to hold weekly meetings with the members of their own laboratory. But from the first days of his teaching, Assoc. Prof. Dan Fabrycky wanted to make sure his graduate students experienced a wide range of perspectives. To him, the most important weekly meeting is a joint meeting of the half-dozen professors and their groups who study exoplanets—the planets orbiting distant stars in other systems—rather than a narrowly focused group meeting.

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