(Posted 5-6-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNCG EXCELLENCE AWARDS MADE
TO FACULTY FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Dr. Hazel Brown
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Dr. Nan Enstad
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Billy Lee
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Dr. Neal Stewart
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GREENSBORO -- Faculty members at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro received Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards and
Research Excellence Awards during the institution's Excellence Awards
Convocation on May 5.
Dr. Hazel Brown, an associate professor of nursing, received
the senior Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Nan Enstad, an
assistant professor of history, received the junior Alumni Teaching
Excellence Award. Both received University Excellence Medallions. Cash
awards for the honors were $7,500 for Brown and $4,500 for Enstad.
Presentations of the teaching awards were made by Provost
Edward Uprichard and Thomas Martin, who is second vice president of
the UNCG Alumni Association. Funds for the teaching awards were
provided by the UNCG Alumni Association.
Billy Lee, a professor of art, received the Research
Excellence Award which goes to a senior faculty member. Dr. Neal
Stewart, an assistant professor of biology, received the Research
Excellence Award for a junior faulty member. Both faculty members were
presented with University Excellence Medallions. Their cash awards
were $7,500 for Lee and $4,500 for Stewart.
Brown is chair of the School of Nursing's Division of
Parent-Child Nursing. Her research specialty is in the areas of
maternity nursing and nursing administration, and she has published
numerous articles in professional journals. She is co-director of
College Bound Sisters, an adolescent pregnancy prevention program that
won the 1999 Research Utilization Award from Region Seven of Sigma
Theta Tau International, the nursing honor society. She also has
served on the board of directors for the International Congress on
Women's Health Issues. A UNCG faculty member since 1974, Brown
received her doctorate from UNCG.
Enstad was praised for her ability to help students "discover
their own ideas and take responsibility for their own learning
process." She has received two grants totaling nearly $45,000 to study
how working women at the turn of the century used mass-produced
popular culture to create new identities. As part of the research,
Enstad will relate the mass-produced popular culture to social and
labor history of the time, such as the women's labor strikes of the
early 1900s. A UNCG faculty member since 1993, she received her
bachelor's and master's degrees and her Ph.D. from the University of
Minnesota-Minneapolis.
A UNCG faculty member since 1984, Lee has won major awards in
international sculpture competitions held in Japan: the Henry Moore
Grand Prize Exhibition in 1991 and Fujisankei Bienniale International
Exhibition for Contemporary Sculpture in 1993. Both of his winning
works are on permanent outdoor display in Japan. A native of in South
Africa, Lee is a graduate of the Birmingham College of Art and Design
and holds the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Royal College of Art
in London. Lee also studied as a research fellow at the Center for
Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His work has been exhibited at the Miriam Perlman Gallery in Chicago,
the David Heath Gallery in Atlanta and the Louis Meisel Gallery in New
York and the Inoue Gallery in Osaka, Japan.
Stewart joined UNCG's faculty in 1995. A specialist in plant
genetics, he recently had an article appear in the journal Nature
Biotechnology. He has presented his research at conferences around the
world, and his work also has been featured at Disney's Epcot Center.
His research has received funding from a variety of agencies,
including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences. Stewart received his doctorate from Virginia Tech. Prior to
joining UNCG's faculty, he worked for two years as a postdoctoral
associate at the University of Georgia.
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