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April 12, 2002 Vol. 26, No. 28
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Outstanding faculty mentors receive awards, recognition

By Andy Clendennen

There is more to teaching than just teaching.

Recognizing this, the Graduate Student Senate of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences has awarded four Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards for this year. Additionally, 37 other faculty mentors received certificates of recognition.

Faculty Menor Awards
Photo by Kevin Lowder
Receiving Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards April 5 are (from left) David Lawton, Ph.D.; Ingrid Lützeler (wife of award-winner Paul Michael Lützeler, Ph.D., who was out of the country; she accepted the award on his behalf); Patty Jo Watson, Ph.D.; and Marcus C. Berliant, Ph.D.
Receiving an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award were Marcus C. Berliant, Ph.D., professor of economics; David Lawton, Ph.D., professor of English and chair of that department; Paul Michael Lützeler, Ph.D., professor of Germanic languages and literatures, the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature; and Patty Jo Watson, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of archaeology and the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor.

The awards are co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate School in Arts & Sciences.

Berliant is a fellow at the Washington University Center in Political Economy. His teaching and research fields include mathematical economics, public finance, location theory/urban economics, microeconomics and econometrics. Berliant has supervised more than 20 student theses in his academic career, including five completed since he arrived at the University in 1994.

He recently was named visiting associate in economics at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. This is the second time in the three years of the faculty mentor award that Berliant has been honored.

Lawton came to the University in 1998 and became chair of the English department in January. He has published five books and many articles in English literary and cultural studies and in medieval studies. He will become executive director of the New Chaucer Society when it moves to Washington University in July.

He has served as main adviser on more than 20 doctoral dissertations and helped steer several toward publication. Some of his former students hold tenured or tenurable academic positions in Australia, Japan, Great Britain and the United States.

Lützeler is the founding director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at the University. The center promotes teaching and research of modern German literature and supports intellectual exchange between American scholars and students and German, Austrian and Swiss writers, critics, students and scholars in the field. Founded in 1984, it is the only center of its kind in the United States.

Lützeler has directed 33 dissertation committees and has received Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships. He also has published nine books.

Watson's areas of interest include prehistoric subsistence, technology, economy, environment, and processualist archaeology, as well as the variety of postprocessualist challenges currently being voiced. Her courses range from introductory archaeology to advanced work in Near Eastern archaeology and in Eastern Woodlands and Southwestern U.S. history.

Watson is especially interested in archaeological theory and field methods. She is especially well known for her work with artifacts left by prehistoric people who explored and mined portions of the world's longest cave -- Kentucky's Mammoth Cave system.

Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring

Cindy A. Brantmeier, Romance Languages and Literatures

Michael G. Caparon, Jr., Molecular Microbiology

Alec Cheng, Depts. of Internal Medicine and Pathology and Immunology

Siddhartha Chib, School of Business*

†Francis Brett Drake, Social Work

†Mary Ann Dzuback, Education

Tonya E. Edmond, Social Work

†Edward Greenberg, Economics

†Michael L. Gross, Chemistry

†Phyllis I. Hanson, Depts. of Physiology and Molecular Cell Biology

†Robert E. Hegel, Comparative Literature

Jay W. Heinecke, Depts. of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

†Scott James Hultgren, Molecular Microbiology

Lutz Koepnick, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Jeff W. Lichtman, Anatomy and Neurobiology

†Marvin Howard Marcus, Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures

†Gary J. Miller, Political Science

Louis J. Muglia, Depts. of Pediatrics and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

†Kevin D. Moeller, Chemistry

†Julie Morris, Earth and Planetary Sciences

†Nancy Louise Morrow-Howell, Social Work

†Colin G. Nichols, Cell Biology and Physiology

Martha N. Ozawa, Social Work

Dolores Pesce, Music

David R. Piwnica-Worms, Depts. of Radiology and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

James F. Poag, Germanic Languages and Literatures

†Vivian R. Pollak, English

†Henry L. Roediger III, Psychology

Rebecca Rogers, Education

Elzbieta Sklodowska, Romance Languages and Literatures

†Martha Storandt, Psychology

†Carol Lynne Tatlock, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Herbert W. Virgin IV, Depts. of Pathology and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology

†Guido L. Weiss, Mathematics

†Gerhild Scholz Williams, Germanic Languages and Literatures

†Karen Lynn Wooley, Chemistry

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Psychology

†Note: these faculty have previously been recognized by the awards committee

*Nominated by Arts & Sciences Students



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