Awards and Honors
Professor of the year
Passion for subject inspires students
 Dr. Don Neumann has always been awed by his students’ limitless capacity to learn. He helps spark that passion, both at home and abroad.
Neumann was recently named the 2006 Wisconsin Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the first from Marquette to win the honor. He’s also the first physical therapy professor in the country to be recognized by the Professor of the Year program.
It’s just the latest addition to his impressive CV. Neumann has received three Fulbrights, the maximum one can earn in a lifetime, in just five years. He’s helped start physical therapy programs in Lithuania and Hungary. His textbook Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Physical Rehabilitation is a classic in the field and is translated into Portuguese, Korean and Japanese.
It helps that Neumann is still inspired by the topic of kinesiology. “I’m very fortunate to teach a subject matter that I truly love,” he says. “It’s about movement, anatomy, the human body. It’s all tied in together. I teach a two-semester course, and 40 times, I’ve been able to retell the story of kinesiology. I love it, and students see that, and that’s probably infectious.”
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