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发帖数: 625 | 1 Texas A&M Prof Named a 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner
Posted: Friday, April 10, 2015 10:30
Updated: Friday, April 10, 2015
Texas A&M Prof Named a 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner
(TEXAS A&M NEWS RELEASE)
Texas A&M Prof X. Ben Wu Named A 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner
Texas A&M University Newswire <[email protected]
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Texas A&M University
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 10, 2015–Dr. X. Ben Wu, Presidential Professor for
Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University, is a winner of the 2015
Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
One faculty member from each SEC university who has excelled in teaching,
research and scholarship is selected each year for the award.
Each award winner will become his or her university’s nominee for the 2015
SEC Professor of the Year Award and will receive a $5,000 honorarium from
the SEC. The SEC Professor of the Year, to be named later this month,
receives an additional $15,000 honorarium and will be recognized at the SEC
Awards Dinner in May and the SEC Symposium in September.
Wu, professor of ecosystem science and management in Texas A&M’s College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences and holder of the John Kincaid Professorship
in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, joined the university in 1995. Dr. Wu'
s research focuses on landscape ecology and ecology education. He teaches an
undergraduate course "Fundamentals of Ecology" and a graduate course "
Landscape Analysis and Modeling." He did his undergraduate study and taught
in Lanzhou University in China before he entered the University of
Tennessee for his graduate study in 1985.
“I am proud to join the SEC and its academic initiative, SECU in
recognizing Dr. Ben Wu as the 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award winner for
Texas A&M University,” offered Dr. Karan Watson. “Ben has made sharing his
passion and philosophy for excellent teaching a cornerstone of his
scholarly impact for both students and colleagues alike.”
Wu was named a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and
was selected to lead the Center for Teaching Excellence that same year, a
position he held for five years. Wu says that his teaching philosophy is
centered on “a passion for teaching, genuine care for students, and well-
designed materials and approaches to foster effective learning.”
“The SEC Faculty Achievement Awards give us a unique opportunity to not
only showcase the work of our outstanding faculty members, but to also
support their future research and scholarship,” said Nicholas Zeppos,
chancellor of Vanderbilt University and president of the Southeastern
Conference. “These 14 men and women are some of the most accomplished and
influential leaders in their disciplines, and I offer each of them my
sincerest congratulations.”
To be eligible for the SEC Faculty Achievement Award, a professor must be a
teacher or scholar at an SEC university; have achieved the rank of full
professor at an SEC university; have a record of extraordinary teaching; and
a record of scholarship that is recognized nationally and/or
internationally.
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said, “This year’s SEC Faculty Achievement
Award recipients are to be commended for their unwavering dedication to
higher education. The SEC is pleased to recognize 14 individuals who have
made such a positive impact on our students.”
The SEC Faculty Achievement Awards and the SEC Professor of the Year Award
are both selected by SEC provosts, and the program is administered by SECU,
the academic initiative of the Southeastern Conference. SECU serves as the
primary mechanism through which the collaborative academic endeavors and
achievements of SEC students and faculty are promoted and advanced.
The full SEC announcement regarding the 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award,
including the names and titles of the other recipients, can be viewed at http://www.thesecu.com/. | f********o
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