两位W&M教授获得杰出教师奖
(Williamsburg, Va.) – Two William & Mary faculty members received the state’s highest honor for professors, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia announced today.
Christopher Howard, the Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Lizabeth艾莉森, the Dorman Family Term Distinguished Professor of Biology and Director of Graduate Studies, are among only 12 professors out of 101 applicants statewide to receive the Commonwealth’s 杰出的教师 Awards. The awards recognize the finest among Virginia’s college faculty for their demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and public service.
William & Mary校长Taylor Reveley说：“这是对两位最有能力的教授的非常恰当的认可。” “莉兹和克里斯不仅是优秀的老师和学者，也是我们大学社区的杰出成员。 很高兴看到他们加入威廉玛丽学院获得这一伟大荣誉的队伍。”
Including this year’s awardees, 33 William & Mary professors have received the honor since the awards’ inception in 1987, more than any other university in the state On Feb. 19, this year’s honorees will be introduced on the floor of the Virginia General Assembly before receiving their awards during a luncheon ceremony.
“One of the great pleasures of working at the College of W&M is the extraordinary talent, commitment, and dedication of the faculty to not just fine teaching, but great teaching,” said Provost P. Geoffrey Feiss. “The College faculty's enviable record of success, year-after-year, in receiving these highly sought-after, prestigious awards is one important indicator that others recognize the superlative skills of our faculty.”
霍华德是美国社会政策和税收政策方面的权威专家，在威廉玛丽大学任教16年。 他获得了两项国家研究奖学金，出版了两本书和许多文章，为各种编辑卷做出了贡献，并担任了无数学生的顾问。 Howard also took an active role in the College’s Sharpe service-learning program, challenging students to address inequality and poverty in the Williamsburg community. 在夏普计划工作两年后，他被选为公民更新和社会创业的罗伯特·j·夏普和简·a·夏普副教授。
“I still remember what it was like as an undergraduate and graduate student,” he said. “I had some very good teachers myself and try to remember what I valued in them in terms of being treated fairly and honestly and with respect and with a certain amount of good humor as well.”
霍华德于1983年在杜克大学获得本科学位。 He later received both his master’s degree and doctorate in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received several honors and awards including Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title of 2007 (for his book “The Welfare State Nobody Knows”).
艾利森也受到同行的高度尊重，除了这个奖项外，她还获得了许多奖项和荣誉。
“It means a lot to me because part of what’s important to me is balance in my life,” she said of the 杰出的教师 Award. “It’s important for me to try to be excellent as a teacher and really reach my students, but I also love research – that’s equally important to me – as are other things I do the rest of the day – the service and outreach – and this award is about all of those things.”
Allison, who has been at William & Mary for 11 years, is an internationally-recognized leader in the field of “traffic control” in normal and cancer cells. She has received over $1.8 million in research grants or contracts and has published her findings in major scientific journals with her students – both undergraduate and graduate – as contributors. 她编写的大学教材被广泛使用，她的教学技巧激励着各个层次的学生。 她促进了科学界的多样性，并与当地传统黑人学院和大学建立了合作关系。 Because of her leadership skills, she was recently asked to serve on the Planning Steering Committee for William & Mary’s new strategic plan.
Allison received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in biological sciences from the University of Alaska. 1989年，她在华盛顿大学获得动物学/分子和细胞生物学博士学位。 多年来，她获得的荣誉和奖项包括2000年William & Mary颁发的Grace J. Blank教学奖和2002年的卓越教学校友奖学金奖。
For more information on the 杰出的教师 Awards, visit http://www.schev.edu/Admin教师/OFAprogramIndex.asp.