For Immediate Release

Contact: John M. Martino
Phone Number:  (215) 895-1186
Date: 07/10/01

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Professor Receives Distinguished Teaching Award

Dr. Allison M. Mostrom of Media, Pa. (19063), is the recipient of the 2001 Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.   Dr. Mostrom is an assistant professor of biology at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP).  The Lindback Award, which is funded through a gift from the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, annually recognizes full-time faculty members with excellent records of teaching.

Dr. Mostrom has been teaching at USP since 1993, instructing courses in ecology, animal behavior, plant and animal diversity and morphology and general biology.  Before joining USP, she was a research assistant at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where she assisted in numerous avian biochemical systematic studies.  Along with the Lindback Award, she has received other distinguished awards in her career, such as the William F. Homiller Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997), the Innovations with Learning Award (1996), and the Alpha Lambda Delta Outstanding Freshman Professor Award (1995).  She has appeared in several publications, including a chapter she wrote on competitive behavior of birds at feeders, which appeared in Exploring Animal Behavior in the Laboratory and Field.  She is a member of the American Ornithologists' Union, American Association of Arachnologists, American Biology Teachers' Association, American Institute of Biological Sciences and many other professional societies.

Dr. Mostrom received an A.B. in biology from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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