Awards
Dr. Rizk's Awards
| Award | Years | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Innovation Program Grant | 2024 | The Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) grant is an award opportunity for departments to develop and implement plans for new and innovative approaches to teaching in online and hybrid environments. |
| Alternative Textbook Incentive Program Grant | 2024 |
ATIP encourages faculty to adopt, adapt, or create OER, or use a combination of freely available or library-licensed resources, to replace required traditional textbook(s) and other high-cost learning materials in a future course. |
| NSM Faculty Award for Excellence in Service | 2023 | The College of NSM seeks nominations of faculty members who provide outstanding service to their department, college, university, profession, and/or community relevant to their faculty positions. |
| Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Piper Professor | 2022 | The Piper Professor award is awarded by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation which is a non-profit, charitable corporation focused on postsecondary education in Texas. Ten Piper Professors from across Texas are selected each year for their superior teaching at the colleges level. The Piper Professor Award recognizes professors for outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement and for each professor's dedication to the teaching profession. |
| Teaching Excellence Award for Community Engagement | 2021 | The Community Engagement Award recognizes faculty with a record of exceptional teaching and deep commitment to involve students in service-learning activities or community engagement projects. |
| Alternative Textbook Incentive Program Grant | 2018, 2019 | ATIP encourages faculty to adopt open educational resources in their courses by incorporating teaching and learning resources found in the public domain or by using resources that have been licensed in such a way that anyone can freely use and re-purpose them. At UH, open educational resources have been estimated to save students over $900,000 during academic years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 – just two years since the start of ATIP. |
| University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional Faculty | 2012, 2017 | The University of Houston's Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional Faculty is one of the university’s highest honors. The Teaching Excellence Award recognizes excellence in the classroom and is awarded annually in the spring at the UH Faculty Excellence Awards Dinner. |