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Columns::August 19, 2002
Leaving a lasting legacy: Ecology institute founder Eugene Odum dies at 88
Research funding at UGA hits a record-setting $204 million
UNC-Greensboro administrator is appointed grad school dean
‘Benefit Extras’: New Web-based program provides information on insurance products, finanical services
Diagnostic labs will receive $2 million to take part in homeland defense network
UGA joins partnership to increase productivity
Campus News
Three new faculty mentors appointed
By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu
Three faculty members have been named Senior Faculty Fellows for the Foundation Fellows program, the university’s premier
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| Rebecca White |
undergraduate scholarship program.
Rebecca White, David Williams and Judith Willis have begun four-year terms as mentors to the students in the program. They join a group of nine other Senior Faculty Fellows.
“Our Senior Faculty Fellows come from a variety of disciplines to meet the needs of our students,” says Steven Elliott-Gower, associate director of the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs. “They are chosen on the basis of their nationally recognized scholarship and their demonstrated interest in undergraduate education.”
White, who joined the UGA law faculty in 1989, was named J. Alton Hosch Professor in 1999. In 2000, she received the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA’s highest award for teaching excellence. She has been selected by law graduates five times as the recipient of the Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching and has also received the John C. O’Byrne Award for Contributions Furthering Student-Faculty Relations.
She served as a Senior Teaching Fellow in 2000-01 and is a member of UGA’s Teaching Academy. S
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| David Williams |
he specializes in labor law, employment discrimination, employment law and labor arbitration.
Williams is head of the religion department. His areas of research and teaching include Hellenistic, Rabbinic and modern Judaism and Hebrew. He has won numerous teaching awards at UGA, including the Beaver Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is currently one of the eight Senior Teaching Fellows and a member of the Teaching Academy. Williams is on the editorial board of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies and is past president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association.
Willis is a professor of cell biology specializing in the hormonal control of insect metamorphosis, the regulation of cuticular protein genes, and the development of a cell culture model for studying metamorphosis. She is on the editorial boards of Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Journal of Insect Physiology. During her distinguished career, Willis has served as director of the cellular physiology program at the National Science Foundation, director of the Honors biology curriculum at the University of Illinois and, most recently, as a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship Panel on Cell Biology and Immunology.
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| Judith Willis |
She has conducted research at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge universities and at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Willis is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
“It is a great pleasure to welcome professors White, Williams and Willis to the Foundation Fellows program,” says Jere Morehead, director of the program. “They are all first-class scholars who have a great deal to offer our students as they make their way through college and develop plans for the future.”
White, Williams and Willis succeed Betty Jean Craige, Ed Larson and Tom Polk, who have served as Senior Faculty Fellows since the mid-1990s. Senior Faculty Fellows are assigned four to eight students each. Currently there are 92 Foundation Fellows.
Many Senior Faculty Fellows have previous involvement with the Foundation Fellows program through participation in dinner-seminars, travel study programs, and practice scholarship interviews. |
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