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:

Ehud Landau received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and then earned his Ph.D. in structural chemistry from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in 1988. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and was senior research associate at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 1993–1999. Dr. Landau came to UTMB in January 2000, when he was named professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and co-director of the Membrane Protein Laboratory and senior scientist in the Sealy Center for Structural Biology. He is currently a visiting professor at the Institute of Biotechnology in Zurich.

Dr. Landau serves as the biochemistry course co-director within the first-year Basic Biomedical Sciences Curriculum. Other UTMB courses include “Membrane Proteins: A Primer on Structure and Function.” In the fall of 2003, Dr. Landau provided a series of eight biochemistry lectures for the first-year students. He is recognized this year by the GSO for his organization and the presentation of material for these biochemistry lectures. Dr. Landau has a passion for teaching. According to his nomination, Dr. Landau is always willing to answer questions and available to assist students or to further explain his lectures, when necessary. Over the past 15 years, he has participated in teaching courses in Heidelberg, Lausanne, Paris, Copenhagen, Strasbourg, and Valdivia in Chile.

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