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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.
Betty
J. Williams received her B.A. in chemistry from Georgia State
College for Women (Milledgeville, Ga.) and her M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in pharmacology from Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.).
Following her post-doctoral training at the University of
Washington in Seattle, she came to Galveston and has remained at UTMB throughout her career.
During
her 35 years of service, Dr. Williams has been involved in
teaching, research and administration. She assisted in the development of two significant
curricular innovations in the medical school. She has served as
course director for the medical pharmacology course for many
years, and for a part of that time as director of the
pharmacology graduate program. She has taught a number of
courses in both the medical school and the graduate school and
has been recognized by students in both schools for her
distinguished service. She
received the UTMB American Medical Student Association’s
Golden Apple Award three times and was named Dean of
Medicine’s Teacher of the Year. She also received the Graduate Student Organization’s
Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Betty
J. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate
Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Betty
Williams receives the 2003 GSO Faculty Award for Outstanding
Concern
and Action in the Area of Student Advocacy from GSO
president, Kendra Stisser. |
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Dr.
Williams currently serves as associate dean for academic affairs
for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Her major effort
has been to help to provide graduate students the kind of
experiences that will make them better prepared to be faculty
when they complete their degrees. She has also come to see the
role of the academician as one of involvement in the development
of public policy. Dr.
Williams has written articles for the public press on issues of
drug policy from the perspective of a trained pharmacologist.
Perhaps her greatest
contributions have been as a role model for both students and
faculty. Dr.
Williams is one of the most trusted and respected members of the
UTMB faculty, and according to her nomination, she is
accessible, responsive and supportive of student concerns. While students, faculty and administration celebrate her
many contributions, all will mourn the loss of her innovative
ideas, intelligent leadership and compassionate concern when she
retires from UTMB in August 2003.
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