Excellence in Education Award

2023 Winner: Bonnie Bartel

Dr. Bartel has an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring, and outreach. She has taught a wide variety of courses and mentored eight postdocs, 30 graduate students, and 122 undergraduate students. Her mentees have presented at professional conferences, co-authored journal articles, received departmental awards, and established their own laboratories. Bonnie has served as the Graduate Program Director and the Graduate Curriculum Committee Chair at Rice University. Her outreach efforts have extended appreciably into the community. For example, Bonnie has organized many conferences in the field of Plant Biology. Most impressively, she has been actively seeking federal grants to improve graduate and undergraduate education. In 1998, Bonnie began helping to implement an NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program at Rice University. In 2006, she received an HHMI Professor grant to introduce first-year students at Rice and Texas Medical Center to research.