Lindback Award

The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award is given out by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation.^[1]

History

Christian Lindback was the president and owner of Abbotts Dairies.^[1] He was also a trustee of Bucknell University. His foundation established the Lindback Awards, for distinguished teaching at colleges and universities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.^[2][3][4] The award includes an honorarium and a medallion.^[5]

Notable recipients

• Matthew Adler (born 1962), Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.
• Norman Adler (1941-2016), professor of behavioral neurobiology and evolutionary psychology
• Nina Auerbach (1943–2017), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania
• Michelle Francl, Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, and Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory
• Henry Gleitman (1925–2015), Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania
• Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Margaret Hastings (1910–1970), historian of Medieval English legal history
• Vijay Kumar (born 1962), roboticist and professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania
• Helen Kwalwasser (1927–2017), Professor Emeritus of violin at Temple University
• Corinne Hogden Robinson (1909–2005), Head of the Food and Nutrition Department at Drexel University
• Amy Wax (born 1953), the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School