Faculty Convocation scheduled for Feb. 23

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Eleven faculty members will be honored with the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching during the annual Faculty Awards Convocation, Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. in the Alys Stephens Center Sirote Theatre.

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Also, the Odessa Woolfolk Community Service Award will be presented to Tamilane Blaudeau, Ph.D., research assistant professor in Human Studies.

Charles Watkins, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, will be recognized as the winner of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls/UAB National Alumni Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching, and Andrew Keitt, Ph.D., associate professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will be honored as the 2010 Alabama Professor of the Year Award.

The 2010 honorees for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching represent each school, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Joint Health Sciences departments.

This year’s recipients of the Excellence in Teaching awards are Colin J. Davis, Ph.D., History; Lawrence DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., Optometry; Steven J. Filler, D.D.S., Dentistry; Steve Grice, Ph.D., Business; Patricia Jennings, Dr. P.H., Health Professions; Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., Public Health; Marti Rice, Ph.D., Nursing; Nathaniel Robin, M.D., Joint Health Sciences; Jane Roy, Ph.D., Education; Nancy Tofil, M.D., Medicine; Peter Walsh, Ph.D. Engineering. Each will be featured in the March 7 edition of The UAB Reporter.