May 5, 1999

KU NAMES DISTINGUISHED 1999 TEACHING AWARD WINNERS

LAWRENCE -- Seven University of Kansas faculty members will be honored as recipients of Distinguished Teaching Awards for 1999 during commencement ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 23.

The teachers will be among the faculty seated on the platform during the commencement ceremony. They will also be honored at an Alumni Association all-university supper at 7 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the Adams Alumni Center.

The Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Classroom Teacher is given to faculty members of the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. This year's winners are

Robert H. Lee, associate professor of health policy and management, won the 1999 H. Bernerd Fink Award winner for outstanding classroom teaching. H. Bernerd and Ruth Fink of Topeka established the award in 1961.

Michael Yellow Bird, assistant professor of social welfare, won the Archie and Nancy Dykes Award for 1999. The award honors faculty members for undergraduate teaching and is reserved for those who have extraordinary accomplishments. Former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes and his wife, Nancy, established the award in 1990. Their gift was matched by the Whitman Corp. Foundation, Rolling Meadows, Ill.

Two faculty members, Richard Schowen, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and of molecular biosciences, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman Jr., professor of psychology, won the Ned N. Fleming Trust Awards for distinguished records of teaching, scholarship and service.

Story by Mary Jane Dunlap, University Relations, (785) 864-8853

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