This award is
presented by the
Graduate Student Organization to a graduate
school faculty member who has repeatedly demonstrated concern
for student rights and issues, and who has acted on the half of
the student body.
Golda
A. Kevetter-Leonard
received her B.S. in biology and chemistry from Texas Woman’s
University (Denton, TX) and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).
She continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow at
Case Western Reserve University from 1978-1980, and also at UTMB
from 1980-1982, after which she joined the UTMB faculty as
associate professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and
Anatomy and Neurosciences.
For
the past 20 years, Dr. Leonard has worked tirelessly to enrich
the educational experience of graduate students at UTMB.
She has served on numerous committees including the
Committee in Support of Science Education, the GSBS Executive
Committee, and the Basic Biomedical Sciences Curriculum Steering
Committee. In
addition, she has generously provided leadership and support as
the chair of the Recruitment Committee (1997-2002), and as the
current chair of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program,
bolstering these programs that bring top graduate students to
UTMB. Dr. Leonard
also serves as the director of the Cell Biology Graduate
Program, and she has served on dissertation and examination
committees for 13 students extending across seven graduate
programs.
