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GREENSBORO—Three professors at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro who are widely acclaimed in their academic fields have been named Excellence Professors.
Appointment of the three to the endowed professorships was approved by the UNCG Board of Trustees and was announced by UNCG Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan. Funds for the professorships are made possible by the UNCG Excellence Foundation, a long-time support organization for the institution. The new Excellence Professors are:
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies of the School of Human Environmental Sciences, as the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor;
Dr. William A. Link, professor and head, Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, as the Lucy Spinks Keker Excellence Professor;
Dr. Daniel R. Gould, professor, Department of Exercise and Sport Science in the School of Health and Human Performance, as the NationsBank Excellence Professor.
"By naming Dr. Dilworth-Anderson, Dr. Gould and Dr. Link as Excellence Professors, the University honors three of its most distinguished faculty members," said Dr. Sullivan. "They have excelled in their scholarship at the University and are nationally recognized in their respective fields. They have made outstanding contributions to our world, and their work strengthens the University overall as we seek to realize our vision of being ‘a leading student-centered university, linking the Piedmont Triad to the world through learning, discovery and service."
UNCG Provost Edward Uprichard had high praise for the trio. Uprichard said: "At the heart of every great university is a quality faculty, and UNCG is no exception. Our newest Excellence Professors, Drs. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Daniel Gould and William Link, have earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and students at UNCG and are recognized nationally and internationally for their academic achievements in research and teaching. I am proud of each of them and believe the University is fortunate to have them as part of our community. Their contributions to the academic mission of UNCG have been and will continue to be significant."
Dilworth-Anderson, a UNCG faculty member since 1988, has conducted extensive research on the aging process and the interaction of older individuals within the family. She is completing a four-year study of how African-Americans care for their elderly relatives. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on family and aging. In 1995, she was named a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
She received the 1998 Marie Peters Award for outstanding research on ethnic minority families from the National Council on Family Relations. She also has been named a fellow of the council. In addition, she also was named a fellow of the Institute on Aging at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has served on a panel for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program and on the study section for human development and aging of the National Institutes of Health. She received her doctorate from Northwestern University.
A faculty member at UNCG since 1988, Gould teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in mental training for athletic competition and sport psychology and conducts research. Gould served as a consultant to the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and he has worked with the team for the past five years. Gould is coauthor of two textbooks, "Understanding Psychological Preparation for Sport" and "Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology."
Earlier this year, Gould was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. He is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology and is a Fellow of the organization. Gould has been a consultant for the U.S. Olympic Committee for several years and was co-editor of the journal The Sport Psychologist" from 1987-91. He has addressed international conferences in Portugal, Czech Republic, Australia, England, Korea and Japan. He holds the doctorate from the University of Illinois.
Link joined the UNCG faculty in 1981 and is head of the Department of History. He specializes in 20th century Southern history, the history of education and the progressive era. Previously, he served as associate dean of the UNCG College of Arts and Sciences. He holds the doctorate from the University of Virginia.
His scholarly works have been recognized widely. Link received the 1995 Mayflower Society Cup for "William Friday: Power, Purpose and American Higher Education," his biography of the former UNC system president. Earlier, he received the 1993 Mayflower Society Cup for his book, "The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930," which was an extension of an earlier book, "A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920." He is co-editor of a two-volume set of historical readers, titled "The South in the History of the Nation."
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