Marti
Subrahmanyam Honored with 2003
Distinguished Teaching Award
New York University presented Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at NYU Stern, with a 2003 Distinguished Teaching Medal. Professor Subrahmanyam was elected as one of five members of the University faculty to receive this award. President John Sexton presented the awards to the winners during a dinner in their honor on April 21.
"Over his 29 years of service at Stern, Marti has served as teacher and mentor to a diverse population, ranging from undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students to executive education professionals," said Dean Thomas F. Cooley. "His excellence as a teacher has been widely recognized. We are honored to have him as a member of the Stern community."
The
Distinguished Teaching Medal consists of a specially designed medal
and a grant of $5,000. The award was established in 1987 to recognize
faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life
of the University through their teaching, and who have consistently
demonstrated their excellence as educators. It is designed as a means
of acknowledging those who have not only demonstrated the ability to
inspire, promote and sustain the intellectual development of students
inside the classroom, but who have established themselves as effective
mentors and teachers outside the classroom as well. The awards are presented
annually to outstanding full-time faculty members in recognition that,
along with research, teaching of the highest quality has priority at
New York University.
Professor Subrahmanyam, who received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, has taught finance, economics and international
business at NYU since 1974. In that time, he has become recognized as
a world-renowned scholar of finance, particularly in the area of financial
derivatives (futures and options), and as an effective lecturer able
to explain complex mathematical and financial details to students of
highly variable mathematical abilities. He also continuously serves
the Stern School in curriculum development and his students as advisor
and mentor.
Colleagues, alumni and students provided letters in support of Professor Subrahmanyam's nomination. One colleague wrote, "He has been and continues to be a great source of intellectual inspiration to our students and faculty." Another colleague noted, "Few members of the faculty have been able to sustain the teaching record Marti has sustained over a long career. He never gets bored with teaching or lowers his standards for popularity." A current student explained, "He holds a unique talent which enables him to describe difficult issues just enough to effectively inspire you to explore in detail the whole concept." Another student wrote, "Perhaps even more important than his classroom skill is his concern for his students." A Stern alumnus and former student of Professor Subrahmanyam, now teaching at another university, concluded, "Almost all of Marti's doctoral students have gone on to being excellent teachers themselves. That is the hallmark of a truly great teacher, to be able to create others in his image - and better."
In
addition to Professor Subrahmanyam, recipients of the 2003 Distinguished
Teaching Award included: Lewis R. Goldfrank, Professor of Medicine and
Surgery in the School of Medicine; Randy Hertz, Professor of Clinical
Law in the School of Law; Lynne Kiorpes, Associate Professor of Neural
Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science in the Faculty
of Arts and Science; and George M. Shulman, Associate Professor of Individualized
Study in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
