Tulane faculty to be honored with 2026 university-wide teaching and mentoring awards

Tulane University will recognize the extraordinary dedication of some of its leading faculty members with a variety of university-wide teaching and mentoring awards during the Unified Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at Caesars Superdome.

The awards include the Tulane President's Awards for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching, the Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellowship for Undergraduate Education and the Oliver Fund Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring.

The recipients of the 2026 President's Awards for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching are Brooke Grant, senior professor of practice in the School of Professional Advancement, and Dr. Ross Klingsberg, associate professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Tulane Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Center.

The 2026 Weiss Fellows are Kate Adams, associate professor and the inaugural Martha McCarty Kimmerling Chair in Women's Literature in the School of Liberal Arts, and Katie Russell, senior professor of practice in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering.

The 2026 recipient of the Oliver Fund Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring is Adam Feibelman, the Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Law in the School of Law and director of the Murphy Institute Center on Law and the Economy.

Recipients are nominated by faculty, students and any other member of the Tulane community and then reviewed and chosen by a selection committee of past award winners.