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Each year, the
Graduate
Student Organization
selects a person from the graduate school
faculty who has made outstanding contributions to their academic growth
and development. The
students make their judgment on the basis of teaching skills, tutorial
excellence and overall quality of, and enthusiasm for, graduate
teaching. The GSO award
this year is presented to:
Mary Faggard Kanz
received her B.S. in biology and chemistry in 1965 from the University
of Montevallo, in Montevallo, Alabama where she was awarded a National
Science Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship. After graduating, Dr. Kanz worked as a research and teaching
assistant at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Harvard
School of Dental Medicine at Harvard University and before entering the
doctoral program at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. in biology from Tufts University in 1980.
Dr. Kanz came to
UTMB in 1979 as a research fellow in the Department of Pathology.
She received the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the National Institutes of
Health from 1981 to 1984. She was named Assistant Professor in 1988.
In 1997 Dr. Kanz was named Associate Professor in the Department
of Pathology and a fellow in the Sealy Center on Aging. In 2000, Dr. Kanz was named as a center investigator in the
Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine. |
Mary
Kanz, Ph.D.
Professor
Experimental Pathology
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