Faculty Research Fellow Pamela Templer Wins 2021 University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award

Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently named the winner of the 2021 University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award.

The award recognizes “outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside and outside the classroom and who contribute to the art and science of teaching and learning.” The winner is selected annually by the Provost’s Faculty Teaching Awards Committee.

In its announcement, the Committee recognized Prof. Templer as “a devoted champion of interdisciplinary learning” who “motivates her students to take charge of their own learning and to apply it to real-world environmental problems.” The announcement goes on to note that “her teaching evaluations are routinely peppered with adjectives like ‘passionate,’ ‘encouraging,’ and ‘engaging,’ with students citing her knack for making course material at once lively and deeply meaningful.”

As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, Prof. Templer leads a project with Prof. Lucy Hutyra that established the first urban nitrogen monitoring stations in Boston (on the BU campus and throughout the City of Boston) as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). She also leads a Pardee Center project with Prof. Hutyra and Prof. Dan Li exploring the mitigation of Boston’s heat island effect by increasing urban canopy.