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Five awarded
Holladay Medals
The NC State Board
of Trustees
has awarded the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence to five faculty
members in recognition of their outstanding careers at NC State. The Holladay
Medal is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the trustees and the
university.
This year’s honorees are Drs. C. Frank Abrams, professor of
biological and agricultural engineering, biomedical engineering and director
of graduate
programs for biomedical engineering; Sarah Burke Berenson, professor of mathematics
education and director of the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science
Education; Fred R. DeJarnette, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
and director of the North Carolina Space Consortium; Thom J. Hodgson, James T.
Ryan Professor and Distinguished University Professor of Industrial Engineering
and director of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute; and
Bruce S. Weir, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Statistics and
Genetics.
The Holladay Medal is named
for Col. Alexander Quarles Holladay, the university’s first president.
It recognizes the contributions of faculty members in teaching, research
and service. Winners receive a
medal and a framed certificate, and their names are inscribed on a plaque
in the NC State Faculty Senate chambers.
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Abrams
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Dr. C.
Frank Abrams has devoted 33 years to research, teaching,
service and administration at NC State. He has furthered the university’s
land-grant mission and supported the state’s agricultural enterprises
through his investigations of ways to improve crop mechanization, and
he has conducted pioneering research in biomedical engineering. He
served as elected chair of the faculty, led the Department of Biological
and Agricultural Engineering to broaden its perspective on the linkage
between engineering and biology, and led development of the new Department
of Biomedical Engineering, a partnership between NC State and UNC-Chapel
Hill and the first joint department in the UNC System. A visionary
academic administrator, Abrams provided instrumental leadership in
the encouragement of high quality teaching and learning, making a long-term
impact in such areas as distance education, universitywide course evaluation,
the establishment of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning,
and reappointment, tenure, and promotion policy. He co-wrote the initial
grant proposal to the Hewlett Foundation that created the Inquiry-Guided
Learning (IGL) Program, which built on grassroots faculty interest
in teaching in ways that encourage students’ critical thinking
and has brought the university national recognition for educational
innovation.
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Berenson
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Dr. Sarah
Burke Berenson has dedicated nearly 20 years at NC State,
building a nationally and internationally recognized mathematics
education program. Known for her creative approaches to investigating
educational
problems, her work focuses on the preparation of teachers and the
under-representation of women minorities in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics
careers. Her efforts have impacted university faculty members (organizing
14 research conferences attended by more than 500 faculty members
from around the world), K-12 teachers (gaining grant support to pay
tuition
and a stipend for more than 500 teachers to take graduate courses),
and middle school and high school students (more than 5,000 students
in two mathematics and science enrichment programs she has directed
over the past 18 years). She has obtained more than 40 grants, published
more than 85 research articles, delivered more than 60 presentations
at national and international meetings, and supervised 15 doctoral
and master’s students. Berenson has received the NCSU Outstanding
Outreach and Extension Award and the Alumni Outstanding Outreach
and Extension Award. She was elected chair of the North American
Chapter
of the Psychology of Education, served on the advisory board of the
Robert B. Davis Institute (Rutgers University Graduate School of
Education), was appointed research fellow in 2002 at Queensland University
of Technology
in Brisbane, Australia, and chaired the International Research Conference
to Investigate Mathematical Reasoning.
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DeJarnette
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During his 35 years
of distinguished service, Dr. Fred R. DeJarnette has
been graduate administrator, associate head, and head of the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; served as director of the
only university-based Mars Mission Research Center; and currently
serves as director of the NC Space Grant Consortium and as the NC
State Liaison
Professor in the National Institute of Aerospace. His research in
boundary layers and aerodynamic heating was used in the design of
the tiles
for the Space Shuttle Orbiter and has since been used for other high-speed
vehicles. DeJarnette has supervised 28 Ph.D. and 40 master’s
degree students. He is a fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace
and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (receiving
its Thermophysics Award and twice its Outstanding Advisor Citation).
He has received the NC State Outstanding Teacher Award, the RJR Nabisco
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension, the O.
Max Gardener Award, and an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship.
He served as national president of Sigma Gamma Tau, the aerospace
engineering
honor society. He is active in bringing his knowledge of space science
to the community, speaking at civic organizations, serving as a media
commentator, and co-directing workshops for middle and high school
teachers.
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Hodgson
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Dr. Thom J. Hodgson has served NC State for 22 years, including as head of the Department
of Industrial Engineering (1983-90) and director of the NCSU Integrated
Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute (1995–present).
He is one of the pioneers in the study of the design and analysis
of supply
chains, publishing more than 71 research articles. He was elected
to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. He served on the
U.S.
Army Science Board (1994-2000), receiving the U.S. Army Certificate
of Appreciation for Patriotic Civilian Service. He was one of 125
inaugural Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management
Sciences. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers,
serving twice as its vice president and as editor of IIE Transactions,
and receiving its highest and most esteemed honor, the Frank and
Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award. Dr. Hodgson’s teaching
awards include the C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award (a student-initiated
award that he has received twice), Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship,
and Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award (Institute of Industrial
Engineers). Hodgson has supervised 31 Ph.D. and more than 40 master’s
students.
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Weir
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Dr. Bruce S. Weir has built an international reputation in population genetics during
his 29 years at NC State. His pioneering work in statistical genetics
has broad impacts ranging from plant and animal breeding to bioinformatics
and DNA forensics. He has published seven books and more than 150 research
papers (including one of the most cited papers in the field), supervised
20 Ph.D. and 15 postdoctoral students, and maintained a continuously
funded National Institutes of Health Program Grant in statistical and
quantitative genetics for 15 years. His service to NC State includes
being the founding director of the Bioinformatics Research Center and
establishing and obtaining training grant funding for the Bioinformatics
Graduate Programs. He has also served his field by initiating the Summer
Institute in Statistical Genetics, which provides training for scientists
from around the world. Weir is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His awards
include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. Max Gardner Award, the Kriz
Study Award, D.D. Mason Award, USDA Superior Service Award Scientific
Research (Group Award), Alumni Outstanding Research Award, Cook Memorial
Prize for Mathematics, and Fulbright Travel Grant.
Posted
May 20, 2005
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