Larry Durstine, a professor of exercise science in the Arnold School of Public Health, received the University’s first Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Award, USC’s highest honor for teaching, at the spring General Faculty Meeting April 26.
The award, which takes the place of the AMOCO Outstanding Teaching Award, is given to an outstanding teacher of undergraduates. A committee made up of undergraduate students and former winners selects the winner.
Claudia Benitez-Nelson, an assistant professor of geology, received the Faculty of the Year Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. The award is given to one faculty member from universities nationwide and recognizes an individual who has been influential to the student body and community at large. The NSCS Faculty of the Year award is the only program in the nation that allows the students the exclusive opportunity to nominate and recognize outstanding faculty. NSCS, a member of the Association of College Honor Societies, is the nation’s only honors organization offering membership to first and second year college students. The society recognizes outstanding academic achievement.
Benitez-Nelson also received a Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching award. Other faculty members honored with the award were Gregory Carbone, geography; Greg Forter, English; and Kenneth Kelly, anthropology.
Lawrence Glickman, an associate professor of history, received the Mungo award for graduate teaching. Other award winners include:
- Richard Adams, chemistry and biochemistry, Carolina Trustee Professorship in the Health, Engineering, Medical, and Science Areas
- William O. Bearden, business, Carolina Trustee Professorship in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Areas
- Jerome D. Odom, chemistry and biochemistry, USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Service Award
- Ronald Benner, biological sciences, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
- William T. Moore, business, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Professional Schools
- Bao Zhu, pharmacy, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Health Sciences
- Catherine Murphy, chemistry and biochemistry, Russell Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
- George Krause, political science, Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences
- John D. Spurrier, statistics, Ada B. Thomas Outstanding Faculty Adviser
- James Coleman, psychology, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
- Ken Peters, Golden Key International Honour Society faculty adviser, Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Research and Undergraduate Teaching.
Durstine is the first faculty member from the Arnold School to receive USC’s top teaching award. James W. Roberts, mathematics, was last year's recipient.
An Indiana native, Durstine chairs the Department of Exercise Science and is director of Clinical Exercise Programs. He earned his bachelor's degree from Malone College in Canton, Ohio, in 1973 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Denver in 1974 and 1981, respectively.
Durstine joined the USC faculty in1982 and has won numerous teaching and service awards, as well as achieved national recognition for his research on the relationships between exercise and cardiovascular disease. He maintains an active research program with more than 50 referred research publications, four books and 20 book chapters to his credit.
The award comes with a $10,000 personal stipend and a $5,000 grant in the name of the award recipient to USC's general scholarship fund.
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Larry Durstine, exercise science
Claudia Benitez-Nelson, geology
