Honors Week

The University is celebrating outstanding students, staff, faculty and alumni at events throughout this week. Among these events is the Faculty Recognition Banquet, which was held on Monday evening:

Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the event will recognize the winners of this year's awards for teaching excellence, including the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorships and the Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching as well as faculty and staff who will be acknowledged as outstanding advisers and mentors.

The Franklin College was well represented in each award area, with five faculty members garnering the distinction of Outstanding Teaching Faculty:

Norris Armstrong - Genetics and Biological Sciences

David W. Hall - Genetics

Joseph Hermanowicz - Sociology

Channette Romero - English

Lisa Townsley - Mathematics

Jennifer McDowell received the CURO Research Mentoring Award, for the Master Level.

The Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Awards went to Susannah Chapman (anthropology), Elizabeth Lucht (biology), David Samuels (microbiology), and Virginia Schutte ( biology).

The Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards were presented to Marla Carlson, assistant professor of theatre and film studies, and Nancy Manley, professor of genetics.

Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Judith Ortiz Cofer was named the university's 2013 recipient of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.

Senior Associate Dean Hugh Ruppersburg was named University Professor.

Entomologist Michael Strand was named Regents' Professor.

Associate professor of geography John Knox was one of the three Richard B. Russell Teaching Award winners.

Associate professor of plant biology Peggy Brickman was one of two awardees of the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship.

Congratulations and thank you to all of these distinguished colleagues.