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LAWRENCE -- The "Surprise Patrol," led by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost David Shulenburger, today gave out one more Kemper Award for excellence in teaching and advising to a University of Kansas faculty member.
The patrol has distributed 19 of the 20 individual Kemper Awards, which are worth $5,000 each. The final award will be handed out to an unsuspecting professor on Sept. 10.
In all, 20 professors will be honored and $100,000 distributed with Kemper Awards this year.
The W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence recognize outstanding teachers and advisers at KU as determined by a seven-member selection committee. Now in the seventh year of a 10-year program, the awards were established by a $500,000 fund from the William T. Kemper Foundation-Commerce Bank, Trustee, and $500,000 in matching funds from the KU Endowment Association.
Today's winner is:
Mary L. Michaelis, professor of pharmacology and toxicology
Michaelis is praised by students and peers for her well-prepared, consistently cutting-edge lectures in the rapidly changing field of cardiovascular pharmacology. She also directs many undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the lab, giving them the skills to be highly competitive and the encouragement and desire to pursue their scientific goals.
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