Faculty Honors and Awards
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Five professors, known for innovative teaching and research at Colorado
State University, were announced in April as new University Distinguished
Teaching Scholars at the Celebrate Colorado State luncheon. Among
those was Dr. Lawrence Ray Whalen, a member of the faculty in the
Department of Biomedical Sciences. Since joining the faculty of the
College in 1982, Dr. Whalen has established a scientific research
program with strong extramural funding and has developed a career
as an influential and creative teacher. His unique gift for using
problem-based learning and interactive presentations in working with
undergraduate, graduate and professional veterinary medical students
has brought him distinction in local, national and international venues.
Dr. Whalen, whose doctorate and D.V.M. are from the University of
California-Davis, received the Innovative Instructional Methodology
Award from the College in 2002, the Provost's N. Preston Davis Award
for Instructional Innovation in 2000 and the College's Norden Distinguished
Teacher Award in 1986.
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Dr. John Belisle, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology,
Immunology and Pathology, was selected as one to two recipients of
the prestigious Monfort Professor Award, an award established through
a gift from the Monfort Family Foundation to help the University recruit
and retain top-quality faculty. Dr. Belisle, a Colorado State alumnus,
joined the University's faculty in 1999 and is director of the Mycobacteria
Research Laboratories, one of the University's most active research
facilities and an internationally recognized center of tuberculosis
research. Dr. Belisle's progressive investigations of the M. tuberculosis
genome and the proteins of this human pathogen have significantly
contributed to vaccine and diagnostic development for tuberculosis
and definition of host-pathogen interactions. Dr. Belisle is principal
or co-principal investigator of four National Institutes of Health
grants and through his career has generated nearly $14 million in
research funds at the University.
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