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Excellence in Teaching and Advising Awards announced |
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Four University of Delaware faculty members--Kenneth C. Haas, professor of criminal justice; Carolee A. Polek, associate professor of nursing; Patricia Sloane-White, assistant professor of anthropology; and Julie K. Waterhouse, associate professor of nursing--won Excellence in Teaching Awards. One faculty member, Michelle Provost-Craig, associate professor in the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science, received UD's Excellence in Advising Award. The awards are based primarily on student evaluations Each Excellence in Teaching Award winner will receive $5,000, have his or her portrait hung in Morris Library for five years and have a brick, inscribed with his or her name, installed in UD's Mentor Circle. The winner of the Excellence in Advising Award will receive $2,500 and be honored with an inscribed brick in Mentor's Circle. Haas has a record for Excellence in Teaching and Advising Awards from UD. Early in his career when working on his master's degree at UD, Haas received the first Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students in 1970. This honor was followed by the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1979 and again in 1991, the Excellence in Advising Award in 1992 and another Excellence in Teaching Award this year. An oncology nurse, Polek is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and received her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her doctorate from Temple University. She began teaching at UD in 1999 on contract and joined the UD faculty in 2001. Sloane-White, who joined the UD faculty in 2002, is a graduate of Amherst College and has a master's degree from Princeton University and a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Oxford. Waterhouse received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Delaware and joined the faculty in 1978. Her doctorate is in measurement, statistics and evaluation, and her research has involved statistic evaluations of licensure exams for nursing, as well as medical-surgical nursing. Provost-Craig joined the UD faculty in 1995. She received her bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Cortland, her master's degree in physical education at UD and her doctorate in exercise physiology from the University of Maryland. Her research interests involve clinical exercise, bone health and activity and energy expenditure. Two graduate students, Michel Anthony Anderson, graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati who is working to receive his doctorate in education, and Stela Stefanova, graduate student in economics from Bulgaria, will each receive $1,500 for their work as teaching assistants. Media contact: Martin Mbugua, (302) 831-8749, [mbugua@udel.edu] |
