2007, Sophomore Basic Science Course Award, Hematology-Oncology (2nd year course) School of Medicine, UNC-CH;

2007-present, Member, Frank Porter Graham Honor Society,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;

2007-present, Fellow, Academy of Educators, UNC-CH School of Medicine;

2006, Joe Grisham Award for Excellence in Teaching Graduate Students, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;

2005, Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UNC-CH (picture from Dean Dome during the half-time of the UNC-NCSU basketball game, with Chancellor James Moeser);

2004, Student Undergraduate Teaching Award (SUTASA), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;

When I reflect on the many different activities in an academic career at UNC-CH, Teaching has become a big part of my life.  And I have the opportunity to lecture both undergraduate and medical/graduate students during the school year.

At the teaching awards banquet in 1999, we were informed that more than 400 faculty members were nominated for only a handful of awards-- so these honors stand out for me as something that was just totally unexpected and I am still dazed with its implications.

I would like to thank everyone associated with this award, especially everyone in my life, both personally and professionally, who have heard too many times over the past 10 years "I can't, I have to teach tomorrow and I need to get ready for my lecture...."; my lab group for having to put up with my "absence" at certain times during the fall semester;  Drs. Grisham, Jennette, and Roberts for endorsing my nominations so strongly; and finally, to the undergraduates and graduate students who actually made the nominations and voiced their positive opinion about me and my teaching abilities (for Biology/Pathology 134), thank you!

Included here are two pictures of me at center court during the UNC-Duke Basketball game in February, 1999.

The newspaper article about the teaching award recipients.

Also included here are some letters from various folks at Carolina and from the State of North Carolina:
Chancellor Hooker;
Professor Grisham;
Coach Torbush;
State Senator Kinnaird;
Carolina Alumni President Dibbert.