Kinesiology’s Sosa wins Sarofim Teaching Prize

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

Jason Sosa, senior lecturer in sport management, won the 2011 Allison Sarofim Distinguished Teaching Award.

The Sarofim Award is given each year to a lecturer in the School of Humanities who has shown exceptionally high qualities of professionalism and dedication to students. The dean selects the recipient from a pool of lecturers nominated by department chairs.

	JASON SOSA

“I am honored to receive this award,” Sosa said. “This award would not be possible without the leadership within my department, and the wonderful students here at Rice University. It is such a joy to teach at a prestigious university and my achievement in teaching here at Rice is very meaningful.”

Sosa studies the influence of diversity within sports at the individual and group level. His current research focuses on the influence of Latin players within Major League Baseball and how the different components of diversity influence their success and career advancement within the league.

In addition to his baseball research, Sosa has examined leadership and organizational culture outcomes within NCAA athletics, including the effect of an athletic department’s culture on student-athlete success, leadership and organizational culture within Division I, II and III, as well as the influence of organizational culture on job satisfaction of NCAA academic administrators.

President David Leebron will present the award to Sosa at the last faculty meeting of the year.

The award includes a $2,000 cash prize. The generosity of Fayez Sarofim
made it possible to create the award and permits the school to honor its
best practitioners in a way that is commensurate with their value to
the university.