Press Releases

April 15, 2002
The Rewards of Hard Work: College Psychology Professor Wins Top Teaching Honor

David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence Presented to Lois Tepper

Contact:
Patricia Conway (PR@southampton.liu.edu)
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Lois Tepper, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Southampton College of Long Island University, has been selected to receive the David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence for 2002. She will be presented with her award along with recipients from other Long Island University campuses at a ceremony on April 30 at the Brooklyn Campus.

Tepper started her career at Southampton College in 1976 in the Psychology Department and has served as Associate Professor since 1984. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in Comparative Physiological Psychology from Stony Brook University in 1975.

Her recent interests include developing a Visual Basic Program to control the Skinner Boxes that are used in the Operant Conditioning course that she developed; setting up a Comparative Psychology Lab and directing comparative research with fish, turtles, lizards, rats, mice, and hamsters. She also writes the Psychobiology Journal, a showcase for psychobiology student research, honors theses, internships and co-ops that's distributed to prospective students.

Tepper served as the Psychobiology Director at the College for several years where she supervised the use and care of laboratory animals for instruction and student research. She often includes students in her research projects and has co-authored or sponsored papers and presentations with her students at many conferences.

Tepper and her husband Skip have been married and living in Sound Beach for more than thirty years. Their son, Stevn, a BFA graduate of Southampton College, is married and has two young children.

Winners of the Newton Award are selected by a committee of their peers following nomination and support from faculty, students and alumni. The award is named for David Newton, a former executive vice president of Long Island University.