1992-93 - Nominated for outstanding teaching and outstanding advising awards
for CALS
1994-95 - Selected "Outstanding Teacher" (Election to Academy of
Outstanding Teachers)
1996 - Outstanding Advisor Award for College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences
1996 - Teaching Fellow, National Association of
Colleges of Teachers of Agriculture
1996-97 - Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, North Carolina State
University
TEACHING GRANTS:
1975-83 Teaching mini-grants ($2,500), Developed teaching visuals 1990 $1,000 -
constructed teaching aids such as stoma model, three dimensional root endodermus
models, and video tape of me walking on and in a leaf.
1995 - Teaching Mini-grant ($2,000) supplemented with $1,000 departmental funds
to purchase video projection unit for displaying living plant materials shown in
light microscope onto screen in large lecture room.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Phytopathological Society (Biological Control Committee 1980-83)
Society of Sigma Xi
North Carolina Academy of Science
Mycological Society of America (Sustaining Members Committee 1991-92)
RESEARCH GRANTS:
1978-79 NC Tobacco Foundation ($3,000); 1978 NC
Soybean Producers Assoc. ($500)
1982- CIBA-GEIGY Corp. funding to
study blue-mold of tobacco ($12,000)
1982-83 USDA/CSRS Special Grant, Biocontrol of
Weeds in regional testing ($21,500)
1985-87 CIBA-GEIGY Corp. (with W. S. Chilton) Biocontrol
of weeds & fungal toxin searches ($260,000) 1984-87 CIBA-GEIGY Corp.
memoranda of agreements ($30,500)
1987 Inter-regional
project IR-4 proposal for $17,500 (not funded)
1988-89 CIBA-GEIGY Corp. (with W. S. Chilton) Renewal
of 1985 grant aBOve ($189,000)
OTHER TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Plant Biologydepartment Graduate Director (1991-98); member of Departmental Graduate
Program Committee; directed graduate theses and participated on graduate
committees; undergraduate teaching coordinator and majors adviser
(1978-present), course scheduling officer; provided electron micrographs and
other materials for major scientific works and textBOoks, including BOok
chapters; textBOok reviews; departmental representative and author of
departments Institutional Effectiveness procedures; chair of Graduate Teaching
Awards Committee; member, undergraduate awards committee; chair of undergraduate
curriculum committee; Interim Director of CALS Electron Microscope Center, 2
years; member of CALS Graduate Studies committee (1994-96); Agri-Life Council
Adviser (1995-97); regularly attend University fall teaching program;
participated in two different CALS Teaching Workshops, co-leader 1999 and again
spring 2000; attended weekly "Conversations on Teaching" and attended
sessions on writing across the curriculum, this fall 99; Faculty adviser
for Gamma Beta Phi Honor/Service Society for past 5 years; co-taught ALS 495T
"Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Training" with Jim Knopp, fall 99;
participated in NSF Teaching Grant application, fall 1999; attended and made
presentations at NACTA; attended Faculty Evaluation and Teaching Portfolio
Workshops, Orlando, FL 1993; International symposium: Papers selected for
presentation at VII International Symposium on Biocontrol of Weeds (Rome, Italy,
March 1988)