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Baylor University is giving a Rice University psychology professor a $250,000 award and bringing her to Waco for a semester to do what she does best: teach.

Michelle Hebl was given the prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, an award given every two years to a professor demonstrating academic excellence. Along with the $250,000 for Hebl, the Rice psychology department will receive $25,000.

Hebl is teaching in an international program at Rice and is expected to teach in residence at Baylor during the spring 2017 semester.

“I just feel lucky to be recognized for something — teaching and mentoring — that I feel so blessed to do as a career,” Hebl said in a statement.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Smith College in 1991, a master’s degree in psychology from Texas A&M University in 1993 and a doctorate of psychology from Dartmouth College in 1997.

Hebl’s studies of gender and diversity have earned her more than a dozen awards, including a lifetime award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division at the Academy of Management.