Outstanding GSBS teachers honored
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has announced the 2007 Faculty Teaching Award winners and appointees to two faculty endowments established to honor excellence in teaching in the Graduate School. Each of the ten graduate program student organizations selected a faculty nominee to be recognized at the recent Faculty Awards reception at the Rosenberg House.
The Deans Council in the Graduate School recognized the importance of honoring outstanding teachers in the Graduate School.
“While other faculty activities could be quantified, we looked for new ways of honoring teaching and the commitment of the faculty,” said Dr. Cary W. Cooper, Lawrence E. Ethridge, Jr. Professor and Dean of the Graduate School.
“The involvement of GSBS students was a critical part of our program to recognize outstanding teaching,” according to Dorian Coppenhaver, Senior Associate Dean of the GSBS.
Student organization representatives from each program area introduced their faculty honoree. In addition to a certificate, a permanent plaque is on display in the program offices with the recipient’s names.
Also honored at the GSBS faculty reception were the new appointees to endowed Excellence in Teaching Professorships. Lillian Chan, Mary and J. Palmer Saunders Professor for Excellence in Teaching was recognized, along with Scott Weaver, Leon Bromberg Professor for Excellence in Teaching. Judge C. G. ‘Trey’ Dibrell trustee of the Bromberg Charitable Trust was on hand to congratulate the new appointees. Faculty nominees for the Excellence in Teaching Professorships are selected by a committee of their peers and recommended to Dean Cooper for a two-year appointment.