WCU is a University of North Carolina Campus
Recent Stories
- Campaign: Geology professor starts scholarship
- WCU extends deadline for tuition deposits to May 31
- WCU Honors College scholarship fund grows to $85,000, endowed level
- New partnership expands entrepreneurship degree opportunities
- WCU initiates new chapter of national music honor society
- Kevin Schilbrack joins WCU as philosophy, religion department head
- Western presents top teaching, research and service awards for 2008
- Students take top honors in kitchen design competition
- Faculty member receives honor for service-learning trip to Honduras
- New WCU award honors faculty for supporting undergraduate research
New WCU award honors faculty for supporting undergraduate research
5/6/2008 - Western Carolina University's Honors College presented the first-ever RODIN Awards this spring to three faculty members for their 
support of undergraduate researchers. RODIN stands for the Recognition of Distinguished Instruction and Nurturing.
Honorees Hal Herzog, professor of psychology; John Whitmire, assistant professor of philosophy and religion; and Jill Manners, athletic training program clinical education coordinator, each received a replica of sculptor Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” and a $1,000 stipend.
support of undergraduate researchers. RODIN stands for the Recognition of Distinguished Instruction and Nurturing.Honorees Hal Herzog, professor of psychology; John Whitmire, assistant professor of philosophy and religion; and Jill Manners, athletic training program clinical education coordinator, each received a replica of sculptor Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” and a $1,000 stipend.
Developed by Honors College student leaders, the new award will be presented every year at the Undergraduate Expo held on campus.
“In recent years, Western has become a leading institution for undergraduate research, and much of that success is because of our outstanding faculty,” said Brian Railsback, dean of the Honors College. For three consecutive years, WCU students have ranked in the top 10 nationally for the number of research projects accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research; in 2008, WCU was ranked sixth in the nation.
Maintained by the Office of Public Relations
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 6, 2008