August 2016 faculty milestones
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Categories: Faculty News, University Announcement
College honors Hale, Orser with Student-Faculty Engagement Fund
Dean Jacque Fetrow (center) congratulates Dean Toby Hale (left) and Dean Paul Orser.
The heart of the Wake Forest experience has always been lasting relationships, fostered by our intimate setting and warm community.
In their combined service of more than 66 years at Wake Forest, Associate Deans Toby A. Hale (’65, P ’03) and Paul N. Orser (’69, P ’01) touched the lives of countless students, families, faculty members and staff. They worked tirelessly to assist wherever needed and whenever their skills matched the situation.
Dean Toby Hale provided wisdom and guidance in many capacities including Dean of the Summer Sessions, Chair of the Honor and Ethics Council, Secretary of the Committee on Academic Affairs, Coordinator of the Wake Forest Research Fellowship Program, and Chair of the Health Professions Committee.
Dean Paul Orser worked in the areas of admissions, public affairs, and student life. As a member of the dean’s office, Orser served for 16 years as Dean of Freshmen, directed the London (Worrell House) Program, founded and directed the WAKE Washington (Internship) Program, coordinated the First Year Seminar and First Year Orientation Programs, and coordinated the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center and Richter Fellowship Program.
In recognition of their strong, personal friendship and dedication to Wake Forest, the Office of the Dean of the College, and its student and faculty constituents, the College has honored these remarkable men by establishing the “Toby A. Hale and Paul N. Orser Student-Faculty Engagement Fund.”
Dean Jacquelyn Fetrow announced the gift at Hale’s retirement reception on April 22. Economics professor Perry Patterson and his partner, Joel Leander (’90); Associate Dean Anne Boyle and her husband, Wake Forest Baptist Health biostatistics professor Mark Espeland; and Dean Fetrow and her husband, computer science lecturer Brian Kell, made leadership gifts to the fund, which will be endowed.
This fund will be distributed at the discretion of the Dean of the College to support student-faculty engagement. In keeping with Dean Hale’s and Dean Orser’s interests and commitments, priority will be given to using these funds to encourage first-generation students and/or students with financial need to collaborate with faculty members in summer research and scholarly inquiry; mentored, academic activities and courses, including WAKE Washington; and internships with rigorous academic components and faculty oversight.
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Faculty win awards at Convocation
Patricia Dos Santos waits to receive her award.
The Wake Forest community gathered together for Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 21 to celebrate the University’s founding in 1834 and the accomplishments of faculty and alumni in teaching, research and service.
Faculty awards are listed below:
- Rhoda B. Billings (JD ’66), who was a professor at the School of Law from 1973 to 2003, won the Medallion of Merit, the University’s highest honor.
- Music professor Louis R. Goldstein won the John Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching.
- Assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu won the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
- Assistant professor of chemistry Patricia Dos Santos received the Award for Excellence in Research.
- Anne Boyle, professor of English and associate dean for student-faculty academic initiatives, received the Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service.
- Ken Zick, vice president and dean of student affairs and professor of law, was awarded the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award.
- Associate professor of legal writing Tracey Banks Coan was presented the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award.
To find out more about Convocation, the awards and those who won then, see the Wake Forest News Center »
Categories: Events, Faculty News
Nominate faculty for mentorship award
To honor faculty members who have distinguished themselves as excellent mentors of Wake Forest undergraduates, URECA (the Undergraduate REsearch and Creative Activities Center) has established a faculty award for Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work.
The award recognizes those faculty who share their passion for scholarship and creative activities and who encourage and inspire their students to work closely with them.
We invite faculty and students to nominate faculty for this award. Nominations are not limited to faculty who have participated in Wake Forest Summer Fellowships or the Richter Scholarship Program, but to all faculty who have served or continue to serve as mentors for undergraduate scholarly work.
Each year, URECA will present two awards — one to a faculty member in the arts and humanities and another to a faculty member in the sciences or social sciences.
Please read the guidelines below and send your nominations to Prof. Anne Boyle, associate dean for student-faculty academic initiatives, via email (boyle@wfu.edu) or hand-delivery to 104 Reynolda Hall.
Nominations are due by December 3. Read more
Categories: Faculty News, University Announcement
Johnston, Collins, Boyle and Womack publish article
Lucas Johnston (religion), Bobbie L. Collins, (research and instruction, social sciences, ZSR Library), Anne Boyle (English) and Hu Womack (instruction and outreach, ZSR Library) co-authored an article published in August 2012:
Lucas Johnston, Bobbie L. Collins, Anne Boyle, and Hubert David Womack. Looking at Sustainability through a Different LENS. Sustainability: The Journal of Record. August 2012, 5(4): 244-247. doi:10.1089/SUS.2012.9943.
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