Faculty Emeriti
2019-2020
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Faculty Emeriti
University of Virginia
June 2020
We congratulate this year’s retiring faculty emeriti, all of whom are
eminent scholars, as they enter this new phase of their lives. This year,
we celebrate the careers of 61 great teachers and researchers from nine
schools and 37 disciplines, nominated by their schools for their exceptional
accomplishments. This collection of short biographies spotlights women and
men who have written dozens of books, won national awards of distinction,
and made thrilling discoveries in their fields.
But our retiring faculty members are also musicians, photographers, outdoor
enthusiasts, and artists; gardeners, sports fans, and prolific travelers.
Their accomplishments in our classrooms and laboratories were shaped
by who they are. In their hobbies, as well as their academic interests, they
contributed to the life of our community. All of them have great stories to tell.
Because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, 2020 will be remembered as a
time of intense upheaval and transformation at the University. And this likely
isn’t the retirement our faculty emeriti envisioned. For those who delayed
retirement festivities, and in place of our dinner in your honor, we raise a
virtual glass to you and share your disappointment in these necessary but
regrettable cancellations. We hope that it will make any celebrations all the
sweeter when those days finally come.
Until then, we hope that you enjoy reading this booklet and that it becomes a
memorable keepsake. We are grateful to our faculty emeriti for all they have
done and all they will continue to do for the University of Virginia.
Rector James B. Murray Jr. and the Board of Visitors
President James E. Ryan
Executive Vice President and Provost M. Elizabeth Magill
Photographs of Grounds by UVA staff photographer Sanjay Suchak
MS. BEVERLY C. ADAMS
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor of Psychology, General Faculty
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1992 ~ 2020
After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, Beverly Adams
held an assistant professor position at the
University of Virginia between 1992 and 1997.
She then moved to Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College, Lynchburg, VA, where she held
assistant professor (1997-2001) and tenured
associate professor (2001-2002) positions,
before moving back to UVA in 2002 as an
Association/Assistant Dean in the College of
Arts and Sciences.
In addition to her invaluable service as an
Association Dean for thousands of students,
Adams regularly taught seminar courses
(Psychology of Reading; Psychology of
Language) that were integral to the psychology
major and cognitive science major curricula.
Her College Advising course, “Microaggressions: Why are “they” so sensitive?”
set the tone for many first-year students in navigating their college experiences.
Adams’ research has examined factors that contribute to the decline of physical
and mental health in strong black women, how ubiquitous electronic computing
has changed face-to-face communication, and the impact of microaggressions
and the implicit bias in first generation college students’ success and well-being.
During her 19 years of service as an Association Dean at the College of Arts and
Sciences, and through countless invited panels and seminars, Associate Professor
Adams gave visibility and voice to historical and contemporary African-American
issues at the University, to women of color in academia, and to first generation and
underrepresented college students.
Adams is a member of the Virginia Psychological Association and has served two
terms as the secretary of the statewide executive board, and is an executive board
member of the Virginia Social Sciences Association.
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MR. PAUL M. ADLER
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1977 ~ 2020
Paul Adler began his studies at Carnegie Mellon
University as an undergraduate engineering
student but switched to biology due to his
excitement with the discovery of the genetic
code and the accomplishments of the early
days of molecular biology. He was introduced
to Drosophila and developmental biology,
which became the focus of his career while
a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow at the University
of California, Irvine. There, he learned about
classic studies on the planar polarity exhibited
by the insect exoskeleton. A few years after
joining UVA, he initiated his studies on
the genetic basis for planar polarity, which
remained his lab’s principal focus for most of his
career. Adler gave the inaugural address at the
international meeting focused on this pathway,
and is considered the “father” of the field. He
published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, and his former
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows work in both academia and industry
across North America, Asia and Europe. Convinced that a general lack of scientific
literacy was a key problem for society, Adler taught a course for non-scientists that
discussed genetics and how it impacts society. This class grew to more than 200
students and offered a remarkably rewarding experience.
Within the biology department, Adler was known for his breadth of interests,
his frequent questions at seminars, and his sense of humor. He stood out by
continuing to work at the “bench” throughout his career. He also participated on
search committees which led to the recruitment of 10 current faculty members, an
important service to the department and university. An active member of the larger
research community, Adler reviewed papers for 56 different journals and grant
proposals for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation,
and 19 other granting agencies from around the world.
Paul has been married to Dr. Ann Beyer, a professor in the microbiology department
at the UVA School of Medicine, for more than 40 years. Paul and Ann plan to
spend much of their retirement in Dallas, Texas, where their daughter and two
grandchildren live, and also look forward to making frequent visits to California to
see their son.
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MR. ANDREW A. ANDERSON
Ph.D., University of Oxford
Professor of Spanish
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1998 ~ 2020
Andrew Anderson, both an authority on
European artistic avant-garde movements and
a worldwide expert on Federico García Lorca
(Spain’s preeminent contemporary poet),
joined the University of Virginia’s Department of
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese as Professor of
Spanish in 2002.
Anderson received his master’s degree in
Spanish and French as well as his doctorate
in Spanish Literature from Exeter College at
the University of Oxford. He is one of the most
prolific scholars in the Department, having
produced eight single-authored monographs
and eight annotated editions, 56 articles
published in peer-reviewed journals, and 29
chapters in edited volumes. He sits on the
editorial boards of major scholarly publications
in the field of Hispanic Studies.
Anderson has had a tremendous impact on the lives and careers of young people
interested in studying modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture.
Anderson’s primary goal in retirement is to complete two scholarly monographs for
which he has already completed much of the preliminary research.
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DR. SUSAN M. ANDERSON
M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine 1985 ~ 2019
Susan Anderson completed her pediatric
residency and her fellowship in Developmental
Pediatrics at the University of Virginia in 1983
and 1985, respectively. She devoted her career
to caring for children with special health care
needs and developmental disabilities including
autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome,
muscular dystrophy, myelomeningocele, and
brain injuries. She was an attending at the Kluge
Children’s Rehabilitation Center from 1985 until
its closing in 2014 and also on the prenatal
consult service as well as Medical Director of
the Outpatient Department.
Anderson founded many clinics including ones
for ADHD, Down syndrome, Myelomeningocele,
Acquired Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, and
Klinefelter, to name a few. She received an
award for Clinical Excellence in 2001, as well as the America’s Best Doctor award
in 2019, and received multiple nominations for the McLemore Birdsong Teaching
Award. She received the Virginia Institute of Autism (VIA) Cygnet Award for
Outstanding Services to People with Autism in May 2004, and in 2015 she was
recognized by VIA with the Stephen B. Perry Award for outstanding dedication and
service on behalf of people living with autism.
Anderson has supervised over 20 Developmental Pediatrics postdoctoral fellows
and acted as a reviewer for The Journal of Neurosurgery and Infants and Young
Children. She has published more than 25 papers and book chapters, in addition
to many instructional materials, and has been an invited lecturer nationwide.
Alongside her excellence in clinical service, research, and teaching, she was a “go-
to” person for many, and is famous for her grand rounds entitled “From Rainman to
More Recent Curious Incidents: Disability as Portrayed in the Arts and Literature.”
She is beloved by her patients and their families and will be sorely missed after
having been a fixture in the UVA Department of Pediatrics and in the community
for decades.
Away from the clinics, Susan collects dolls with disabilities or medical complexities,
and was recently awarded a grant for the coming year to create a video on the
history of such dolls. She is a mother and grandmother, and is thankful that her
grandchildren will keep her grounded and involved in our community for years to
come.
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DR. BRIAN H. ANNEX
M.D., Yale University
George A. Beller, M.D./Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
School of Medicine 2008 ~ 2019
Brian Annex was recruited from Duke University
in 2008 to serve as the Chief of Cardiology.
Under his leadership, the division saw enormous
growth in clinical activity via the creation of new
services and the expansion of many others,
vastly expanding its footprint across the state.
In three of his final years, UVA Cardiology
and Cardiac Surgery was recognized by
the U.S. News and World Report as being in
the top 10 percent of similar departments,
while it eventually rose to the overall rank of
44. Research funding in the heavily clinical
cardiology division exceeded $7 million, with
the vast majority from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Annex worked seamlessly with
the director of the Cardiovascular Research
Center and collaboratively with the science
chairs in establishing research directions, and he has parlayed research advances
into philanthropic efforts for the betterment of the Heart and Vascular Center.
Annex arrived at UVA as a successful, NIH-funded physician-scientist, and over
his 11 years at the University he maintained three to four concurrent NIH grants
with funding of more than $1 million per year. He left with an h-index of 58, and, in
the year before his departure, he published three papers in journals with impact
factors greater than 15. His trainees have received independent NIH RO1, KO8,
K23 and American Heart Association Scientist Development grants. He also
was awarded a patent for his lab’s work on micro-RNA 93 for peripheral arterial
disease, and formed a UVA spin-off company for commercialization. During his
years at UVA, he was elected into the Association of University Cardiologists and
the prestigious American Association of Physicians, while continuing to function as
an active clinical cardiologist.
Brian credits the friends he made at UVA for initiating his interest in tennis. He,
his wife, and their children treasure Thanksgiving at their house in Ivy. With his
son graduating from UVA, and his daughter a rabid Duke University fan, college
basketball fights will continue for years to come. He is far from retired as he now
serves as the Chairman of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia. Having
finally understood the counties around Charlottesville, he is now actively learning
the geography of Georgia.
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MR. TOBY BERGER
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 2006 ~ 2019
Toby Berger joined the University of Virginia’s
Charles L. Brown Department of Computer and
Electrical Engineering in 2006, after spending
his formative academic years at Cornell
University.
Berger has made many important contributions
to the field of information theory, the
mathematical study of fundamental limits of
communication and data processing. One
of the fathers of source coding theory, also
known as rate-distortion theory, Berger wrote
an early and influential book on the topic, Rate-
Distortion theory: A Mathematical Basis for
Data Compression.
Berger has earned numerous awards and
distinctions including the Shannon Award, the
highest distinction of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Information Theory Society; the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching
Award; and the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. He served as Editor-in-Chief of
Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE’s flagship journal in this area, and was
elected and served as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is an
IEEE fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Berger has created a legacy through his renowned doctoral students including
Richard Blahut, Ilan Ziskind and Raymond Yeung, legends in error control coding,
image coding, and network coding, respectively. He graduated 41 doctoral students
throughout his career.
An avid amateur blues harmonica player, Toby is known for educating his students
not only in math and information theory, but also in the history of the Delta and the
blues, dedicating his last class of each semester to sharing his enthusiasm for this
art form.
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MR. SAMUEL E. BODILY
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Tyler Professor of Business Administration
Darden School of Business 1977 ~ 2020
Samuel Bodily grew up on a 600-acre family
farm in northern Utah. At 11 years old, he
decided that he would get a doctorate, inspired
by teachers who encouraged students to devote
their lives to science to defeat the Soviet Union in
the Cold War. He was a fi rst-generation college
graduate, and while at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology he completed Army
ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate.
Bodily has written several books, a variety of
journal articles in publications ranging from
Operations Research to the Harvard Business
Review, and more than 120 cases and technical
notes on quantitative analytics. Bodily’s
publication “Reducing Risks and Improving
Incentives in Funding Entrepreneurs” received
the 2016 Decision Analysis Special Recognition
Award, which recognizes the best paper in
Decision Analysis that year.
In addition to teaching in the residential M.B.A. program, Bodily was on the launch
team for the Executive M.B.A. and the Global Executive M.B.A. He traveled with
students to Sweden and India as part of the Global Executive M.B.A. program. He
was a visiting professor at INSEAD’s Singapore campus, Stanford University, and
the University of Washington. He was the faculty leader for Darden’s Executive
Education program on Leading Strategic Thinking and Action. He served on the
Faculty Senate, and was Area Coordinator for Quantitative Analysis for 35 years.
Bodily has also consulted with many corporations in the energy and electric utility
industries and numerous government agencies.
Sam loves music and can play the piano, organ, guitar, violin, and (the grandkids’
favorite) harmonica. He has volunteered his talents in churches, schools,
gatherings of friends and family, as well as for Christmas caroling at Darden. He
is quite curious, willing to learn from strangers, and not afraid to ask questions.
He loves travel (exploring really) and has been to 80 countries. Some travel has
been by motorcycle or piloting a private plane, though a favorite mode is a bicycle.
He and his wife Jolene have found intriguing trips in many of the countries they
have visited. Recently he purchased a travel trailer so they could take two or three
grandkids at a time exploring America. His 14 grandchildren adore their “Papa
Sam” who makes up goofy bedtime stories and supports their artistic and musical
endeavors.
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MR. L.J. BOURGEOIS III
M.B.A., Tulane University / Ph.D., University of Washington
Professor of Business Administration
Darden School of Business 1986 ~ 2020
A fixture in the Darden School of Business since
1986, Jay Bourgeois has led the Strategy Area,
teaching strategy, post-merger integration,
and eastern philosophy. Bourgeois grew up in
Venezuela and worked in Dole Foods’ Latin
American operations. In 1978, Bourgeois
earned his doctorate in strategic management
and international business and wrote an award-
winning dissertation about strategic decision-
making in firms facing volatile environments.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Bourgeois
taught at the Stanford Business School, where
he was director of the Strategic Management
Program
At UVA, he was Associate Dean for International
Affairs and Director of the Darden Center for
Global Initiatives from 2004 to 2008, during
which time he developed Darden’s globalization strategy. Bourgeois has coached
CEOs and consulted for more than 100 firms in addition to numerous governments
and nonprofits around the world on strategy, mission development and post-merger
integration. Bourgeois has worked in many sectors including airlines, banking,
computers, electronics, food processing, government, higher education, insurance,
law, mining, oil exploration, public accounting, shipping and telecommunications.
Professor Bourgeois authored Strategic Management: From Concept to
Implementation, and Corporate Marriage Counseling: Strategies for Integrating
Acquisitions, as well as over 90 cases and articles in various management journals
and books. Bourgeois’ research is required reading in leading doctoral programs
on strategy in the U.S. and Europe, and he has been recognized by the Journal of
Management as among the top 150 out of 25,000 management scholars globally
over the past quarter-century. He is currently writing Eastern Philosophy and
Strategic Thinking: How Ancient Mindsets Inform Today’s Leader.
Jay serves on various nonprofit boards, was on the vestry of St. Paul’s Memorial
Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, and participates in various nonprofit and Mardi
Gras organizations in New Orleans. He and his wife, Maggie, divide their time
between Charlottesville and New Orleans.
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MS. BARBARA A. BOYCE
Ph.D., Florida State University
Associate Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1989 ~ 2020
Having dedicated her life to the study and
teaching of physical education and kinesiology,
Barbara Boyce has been on the Curry School
of Education and Human Development
faculty since 1989. She began her studies
at Tift College where in 1976 she earned her
bachelor’s in Health, Physical Education and
Recreation. At the University of Tennessee,
Boyce received a master’s degree in Physical
Education Pedagogy in 1977. She went
on to obtain a doctorate from Florida State
University’s Department of Movement Science
and Physical Education in 1982. Boyce was an
assistant professor at the University of Georgia
from 1983 to 1989, the year she arrived in
Charlottesville.
At the University of Virginia, Boyce began
as an Assistant Professor of Health and Physical Education before becoming
an Associate Professor of Kinesiology with tenure in 1994. In the time since,
she has instructed numerous undergraduate and graduate students across her
many courses and seminars, also serving as an advisor. Within Curry, Boyce’s
leadership has been both steadfast and thoughtful, and her responsibilities have
been diverse. Her primary role has been to prepare teachers in the areas of Health
and Physical Education, as well as to train doctoral students to assume university
roles as pedagogists, teaching them how best to teach others. Boyce was also
responsible for coordinating the B.S.Ed./M.T. in Health and Physical Education,
PGMT in Health and Physical Education, M.Ed. in Pedagogy and Ph.D./Ed.D.
in Pedagogy programs. She served on several search, review, admission, and
planning committees, and was also a member of the Curry Faculty Council from
2006 to 2008. Professionally, Boyce has authored or co-authored nearly 100
articles and three books, including the 2003 title Improving Your Teaching Skills: A
Guide for Student Teachers and Practitioners. She was also chair of the editorial
board for Women’s Sport and Physical Activity Journal from 2011 to 2012, and was
president of the National Association for Kinesiology and Physical Education in
Higher Education from 2016 to 2018.
Boyce’s accolades include becoming a fellow of the National Academy of
Kinesiology in 2014, and Outstanding Professor of the Curry School, 2016-2017.
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DR. DAVID L. BRAUTIGAN
Ph.D., Northwestern University
F. Palmer Weber Medical Research Professor Emeritus
School of Medicine 1994 ~ 2020
Prior to UVA, David Brautigan was professor
of Medical Science at Brown University, where
he taught biochemistry, directed dozens of
undergraduate research projects, and served
as director of the Ph.D. Program in Molecular,
Cell Biology and Biochemistry.
Brautigan is the F. Palmer Weber Medical
Research Professor in the Department of
Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology,
and Director of the Center for Cell Signaling
research unit at the UVA School of Medicine.
He is an internationally renowned expert on cell
signaling by protein phosphorylation, involving
protein phosphatase and kinase enzymes.
Brautigan has published more than 235 scientific
articles that have been cited over 19,000 times,
and has been invited repeatedly as a speaker at international conferences in the
United States, Europe, and Japan. His service at the University has included dean’s
advisory, faculty recruitment, promotion and tenure, and strategic planning and
capital campaign committees. He also served on the faculty senate, and as Chair
of the University Library Committee. He has taught and trained undergraduate and
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and continues as a mentor for junior
faculty. In recognition of his scientific accomplishments, he was elected fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016. For over 20
years, he generated, licensed, and supported multiple enzymes and antibodies as
commercial research reagents.
Since 2003, Brautigan has been co-leader of the UVA Cancer Cell Signaling
program and a member of the UVA Cancer Center executive committee that invests
philanthropic funds in pilot projects. He is a member of an industry-academic review
panel for the Ivy Foundation that selects early-stage research projects for grant
support. He has advised and participated in various multi-investigator research
programs (NIH P30, P01, U54 and U01) and served as member and chairman on
more than a dozen NIH panels to review federal research grant applications. He
has been a consultant and a founding member of the scientific advisory board for
Kemin Industries since 1984, and is now a member of the worldwide corporate
board of advisors. He has consulted for pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies including Merck & Co. and Bayer Institutes for Metabolic Disorders and
Dementia Research.
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MR. ROBERT B. BROWN
M.B.A., University of Maryland / Ph.D., University of Washington
Associate Professor of Commerce
McIntire School of Commerce 1989 ~ 2020
Robert “Brad” Brown joined the Management
Area of the McIntire School of Commerce after
completing his doctorate in 1989, and was
subsequently promoted to associate professor
in 1995. Brown made innumerable contributions
during his 31 years of dedicated service to the
University.
Brown served on the Jefferson Scholars
Selection Committee in 2008, 2009, and 2015,
and as a Center for Global Health board member
since 2001. He received a University Teaching
Award (2001 to 2002), and was inducted into
the Raven Society in 1996.
Brown led and significantly contributed to the
School’s core mission of global education as
Director of Undergraduate International Affairs
from 2003 to 2010, and served as a study abroad advisor from 1992 to 2010.
Brown also acted as the faculty lead for numerous study abroad courses, Global
Commerce Immersion Experiences, and Semester at Sea courses.
In addition to his impact within McIntire, Brown has been integral to University-wide
sustainability efforts, and served on the University’s Committee on Sustainability
since 2018. In the classroom, he has taught a popular sustainability course for
undergraduate and graduate students for many years. A wonderful colleague, a
caring mentor, and an impactful educator, Brad has left his mark on the School and
the many students he has worked with.
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MS. CAROLYN M. CALLAHAN
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Commonwealth Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1973 ~ 2019
Carolyn Callahan is an internationally
recognized scholar with an impressive impact
on the field of gifted education. Her research
interests have explored program evaluations,
the development of performance assessments,
and curricular programming for gifted students.
Applying her expertise, Callahan has engaged
in evaluations of gifted programs across the
country. Her body of work, composed of over
400 publications, spans textbooks, books, book
chapters, and research articles which have had
an enormous influence on her field. She has
maintained an active publication record and
presence, and has had extraordinary success
in funded research.
During her time at the Curry School of
Education and Human Development, Callahan
created graduate programs for gifted education
as well as the incredibly popular Saturday and Summer Enrichment Program. An
excellent teacher, she has mentored numerous graduate students who have gone
on to be stars in the field. Her service to her department, school, the University,
and her field is extensive. She served on all major committees, including the
impactful promotion and tenure committee. Callahan also served as chair of
the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy and as the UVA Faculty
Athletics representative from 1997 to 2017.
Callahan is an exemplary scholar and a faculty member deeply committed to
the learning experiences of students in K-12 schools. Her retirement comes
after a long and successful teaching career, a productive research career, and
international recognition for her significant contributions to her field.
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MS. KAREN S. CHASE
Ph.D., Stanford University
Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1979 ~ 2020
A specialist in Victorian literature, Karen Chase
is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English
Literature. Beginning her study of English at the
University of California, Los Angeles, Chase
received her bachelor’s in 1973. Following
completion of her doctorate, Chase joined the
faculty of the University of Virginia that same
year. An accomplished educator and scholar,
Chase has received several honors including
the 2001 IMP Society Faculty Award for Most
Distinguished Teaching. She was also Cavalier
Chair of Distinguished Teaching in 2000, and
was Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern
Literature at Union College.
During her professional career, Chase
undertook a wide variety of editorial positions.
She served on the editorial board of Victorians
Institute Journal, and was a trustee of the Dickens Society from 1989 to 1991.
Chase was a member of the University Press of Virginia board of directors from
1989 to 1993, and served as its chair the final two years of this period. Additionally,
Chase served as co-editor of the organization’s Virginia Victorian Study Series
from 1990 to 2000. Often alongside her longstanding colleague Michael Levenson,
Chase delivered lectures and presentations to audiences at numerous prestigious
universities, including St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, the University of
Regensburg, and Cambridge University, in addition to many more closer to home.
Renowned for her expertise, Chase is also a prolific writer, and published several
books throughout her career, including The Victorians and Old Age, Middlemarch
in the Twenty-First Century, and The Spectacle of Intimacy.
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MR. GERALD L. CLORE
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Commonwealth Professor of Psychology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2000 ~ 2020
Gerald Clore is Commonwealth Professor of
Psychology at the University of Virginia, and
was formerly Alumni Distinguished Professor at
the University of Illinois. His research focuses on
emotion and its cognitive consequences. He co-
authored The Cognitive Structure of Emotions,
a general theory of how specific emotions
represent important psychological situations,
and how thoughts intensify them. The theory is
applied mainly in computer science to supply
the artificial (emotional) intelligence of virtual
agents in computer games, interactive training
modules, and other programs.
Clore’s research concerns the Affect-as-
Information hypothesis, which posits that
people’s emotional reactions provide embodied
information about the value and urgency of
events, and that this information then regulates cognition, motivation, attention,
and memory.
Clore’s work has been cited over 49,000 times for an h-index of 76, making him
one of the most-cited faculty at the University. He has served as Associate Editor
of Cognition and Emotion, as core faculty of the National Institute of Mental Health
Consortium on emotion, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University. He has
been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New
York University, in addition to being a fellow of the Centers for Advanced Study
at the University of Illinois, Stanford University, and the Rockefeller Center in
Bellagio, Italy.
In 2010, Clore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and in 2013 he received the William James Fellow Award for lifetime scientific
achievement from the Association for Psychological Science.
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MR. JULIAN W. CONNOLLY
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1977 ~ 2020
Julian Connolly grew up in Newburyport,
Massachusetts, and spent his childhood hiking
and skiing in New Hampshire, swimming
at Plum Island, and sailing in Marblehead,
Massachusetts. He entered Philips Exeter
Academy in 1964, and took Russian language
in his second year. In the summer of 1967,
he went to the Soviet Union for three weeks
with a small student group. Energized by this
travel experience, Connolly decided to focus
on Russian literature. He enrolled in Harvard
College in 1968, and majored in Slavic
Languages and Literatures. Upon graduation in
1972, he joined a group of like-minded students
and spent 10 weeks driving and camping in the
western part of the Soviet Union. Connolly later
pursued graduate study in Slavic Languages
and Literatures at Harvard.
Connolly came to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, and remained at UVA for the next 43 years, attaining
the rank of professor in 1993. He served as the chair of the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures for a total of 16 years. Connolly taught a wide variety of
courses at the University, from undergraduate offerings in nineteenth and twentieth-
century Russian and East European literature and film, to graduate courses
on Russian poetry, Russian émigré literature, and seminars on Dostoevsky,
Gogol, and women in Russian literature. Undergraduates flocked to his courses;
Dostoevsky was consistently the largest literature class in the department.
Connolly also taught numerous University and Pavilion Seminars and served as
an instructor on two Semester at Sea summer voyages, one in 2008 and another in
2014. During his career Connolly received several teaching awards, including the
All-University Outstanding Teacher Award in 1999 and a Mead Honored Faculty
Award in 2005. Connolly’s time at the University was not restricted to teaching,
however. A specialist in the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he
has written five books, edited four volumes of essays, written over 90 scholarly
articles, and has presented his work at conferences in many countries around the
world. He served two terms as President of the International Vladimir Nabokov
Society, and in 2016 Connolly received the Richard Stites Senior Scholar Award
from the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
Julian and his wife, Monica Markelz, are avid supporters of the arts in Charlottesville.
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MS. SARAH M. CORSE
Ph.D., Stanford University
Associate Professor of Sociology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1991 ~ 2020
Sarah Corse, Associate Professor of Sociology,
is a member of the Faculty Committee for
Studies in Women and Gender, and is a fellow
at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
Corse received a B.A. from Yale University
prior to studying for her doctorate at Stanford
University.
Corse is the author of Nationalism and Literature:
The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United
State. This historical and cultural analysis
of national literature demonstrates the self-
conscious role elites assign to the identification
and promotion of canonical national literature. In
addition to her work on national literature, Corse
has studied the process of literary canonization,
changes in artistic training, and difficulties
with organizational innovation. Her work has
been published in the Encyclopedia of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociological
Forum, Poetics, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Research
on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, and Current Research in
Occupations and Professions.
Corse is currently working on research projects examining engineering culture and
organizational change and patterns of adolescent reading across leisure and school
contexts. She has presented her research at numerous professional meetings
across the country in addition to many invited talks, including ones delivered at
Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. She has
taught Executive Education programs through the University of Virginia and has
consulted through Virginia’s Survey Research Center and SRI International in Palo
Alto, CA.
Corse teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level on the sociology
of culture, art, and literature, as well as ones that focus on qualitative methods,
American business, and gender and science.
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MR. JEFFREY T. CORWIN
Ph.D., University of California
Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
School of Medicine 1988 ~ 2020
Before completing his Ph.D., Jeffrey Corwin
accepted an assistant professorship in Zoology
at the University of Hawaii, but delayed his
arrival to conduct 10 months of research in
Plymouth, England. He was recruited to the
University in 1988.
As a first-year graduate student Corwin
discovered that sharks add thousands of
sensory cells to their ears throughout life,
and proposed that regeneration of such “hair
cells” could provide the basis for recovery
from hearing and balance deficits that affect
patients permanently. The National Institutes of
Health has funded his initial grant, “Growth and
Regeneration in the Inner Ear,” since 1982, and
Corwin’s research publications remain highly
cited. Corwin and his associates were the first
researchers to demonstrate that hair cell regeneration occurs in non-mammals
and that the balance organs in human ears have limited regenerative responses.
His lab later focused on finding what causes these limitations, and recently used
their findings to identify a drug treatment that unleashes regenerative responses in
balance organs from ears of adult mice.
At UVA, Corwin was Associate Director of the Neurosciences Graduate Program,
Faculty Director of the School of Medicine’s Advanced Microscopy Facility, and
a member of several graduate programs and the Executive Committee of the
Faculty Senate. In 2015, he worked with a small group of students and Stacy
Smith of Carr’s Hill Events to start the First-Generation Initiative at the University.
Corwin plans to continue research at the University and at the Stanford University
School of Medicine where he is now an adjunct professor of Otolaryngology (head
and neck surgery).
Jeff looks forward to helping First-Generation students during retirement and to
more time with three of his loves: his wife, Linda (a.k.a., “Stripe”), his sailboat,
and his woodshop. He and Stripe live in Afton and Woods Hole and are the proud
parents of Patrick Corwin, a geophysicist and Eagle Scout who lives with his wife
Diana in Houston, Texas.
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MS. CLAIRE R. CRONMILLER
Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of Biology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1990 ~ 2019
Claire Cronmiller has taught a range of
courses including biology major courses from
introductory to advanced levels as well as a
University Seminar for fi rst-year students.
The rationale she employs is that teaching
science should reflect the very nature of
science. That is, it should embrace the process
of discovery. Cronmiller’s approach to scientific
teaching combines active learning strategies
with a broad range of teaching methods and
activities that can engage students with diverse
backgrounds and learning style preferences.
Cronmiller’s research interests and passion
have always focused on the field of genetics
and developing students’ abilities to understand
and evaluate scientific discoveries and theories,
while also addressing broader societal issues and their implications. Through this
lens, she explored human disease genes, pre-symptomatic genetic diagnosis, gene
therapy, genes and behavior, the nature of uses for human genome information,
Genetically Modified Organisms, and the opportunities and challenges of personal
genome testing.
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DR. JOHN M. DENT
M.D., Columbia University in the City of New York
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine 1993 ~ 2019
Following the completion of a residency
and fellowship training at the University of
Virginia, John Dent joined the faculty of the
Cardiovascular Division, rising to the rank of
professor with tenure in 2009. Dent has focused
his clinical practice on patients with valvular
heart disease, while also carrying out various
administrative duties including serving as
Medical Director of the Adult Echocardiography
laboratory for over 25 years.
Early in Dent’s career he realized that his clinical
effectiveness depended heavily on the work
of others. Accordingly, he sought to improve
the coordination of care and communication.
He led the successful implementation of an
inpatient interprofessional bedside rounding
model called “Rounding with Heart,” which
dramatically improved patients’ experience of care, increased staff engagement,
and exposed learners to a critically important care model. Dent was honored as
Clinical Professor of Nursing due to his work as an advocate for interprofessional
education and collaboration, focusing particularly on how this can reliably improve
patient safety and quality of care.
In addition to continuing to serve as a teacher here at UVA, John’s plans include
extensive travel with his wife Cindy, and long-distance hiking.
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MR. JOHN J. DOBBINS
Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Professor of Art and Archeology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1978 ~ 2019
John Dobbins is Professor of Art & Archaeology
in the McIntire Department of Art, and has
served 41 years on the University of Virginia
faculty. Since 1995 he has been the Director
of the Pompeii Forum Project. Other projects
throughout his career concerned the Sanctuary
of Artemis Brauronia on the Athenian Acropolis,
Roman numismatics, terracotta lamps,
Antioch mosaics, and the Hellenistic theater at
Morgantina in Sicily.
Dobbins has been associated with the American
Academy in Rome and with the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, is a
life member in the Archaeological Institute of
America (AIA), and has held local and national
offices. For over 35 years he has been a lecturer
in the AIA’s Visiting Lecture Program. Dobbin’s
research has been supported by several grants
including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that helped to
launch the Pompeii Forum Project. During his time at the University, he has been a
fellow of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, a Mead Honored
Faculty Member, a recipient of an All-University Teaching Award, the Richard A.
& Sara Page Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor, and a member of the UVA
Academy of Teaching. His publications pertain to Pompeii, Roman architecture
and urbanism, mosaics, domestic architecture, and sculpture; they also include
Greek and Roman lamps, Greek architecture, and urbanism. Dobbins is also a field
archaeologist who has excavated in Spain, Italy, Greece, Syria, Massachusetts,
and Virginia. Dobbin’s collaborative work with 3-D modeler Ethan Gruber (formerly
of UVA Scholars’ Lab; now American Numismatic Society) has demonstrated the
utility of 3-D models in archaeological research and in presenting mosaics in
museum collections. Dobbin’s models of two houses at Antioch and another at
Pompeii have been presented at national and international conferences, as well
as in public lectures in order to recontextualize mosaics that had been lifted from
their original architectural settings. His seminar on Roman Numismatics resulted
in the numismatic website of the Fralin Museum.
Dobbins is especially proud of the numerous graduate students in Roman and
Greek Art and Archaeology whom he has mentored as dissertation director or
second reader.
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MR. DANIEL J. EHNBOM
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Art History
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1992 ~ 2020
Daniel Ehnbom received his undergraduate
education from the University of Wisconsin and
Delhi University, and earned his masters and
doctorate from The University of Chicago. He is
the author of the 1985 book, Indian Miniatures:
The Ehrenfeld Collection, and has, in addition to
authoring numerous articles on Indian painting
and architecture, also contributed to various
exhibition catalogues.
In 1996, Ehnbom worked with the Macmillan/
Grove Dictionary of Art in London as a
contributor and consultant, and as their South
Asia Area Editor for Painting and Sculpture
since 1988. His publications include “Visions
of the Blue God: A Note on Composition
(and Performance?) in Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Illustrations,” for The Journal of Hindu Studies
in 2018, the catalogue Realms of Earth and Sky: Indian Painting from the Fifteenth
to the Nineteenth Century, published by the Fralin Art Museum in 2014, and the
2011 essay “Masters of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana,” in the edited volume
Masters of Indian Painting: 1100-1900.
Ehnbom taught undergraduate lecture courses on Indian and Buddhist art, as well
as undergraduate and graduate seminars in specialized topics including sixteenth-
century Indian painting and early Indian sculpture and architecture. He has served
as adjunct curator of South Asian art at the University of Virginia Art Museum, and
was a long-time Director of the UVA South Asia Center. He has held fellowships
from Fulbright, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Council of
Learned Societies, and the Weedon Foundation. During the University of Oxford’s
2018 Trinity Term, he was the J.P. and Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellow at The Centre
for Hindu Studies.
Ehnbom has traveled extensively in Asia and has lived for extended periods in
both India and Pakistan.
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DR. WILLIAM S. EVANS
M.D., University of Virginia
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine 1982 ~ 2020
William Evans has served as Associate
Director of the General Clinical Research
Center, Director of the Multidisciplinary Training
Program for Clinical Investigation, and
Associate Chair of Medicine for Faculty Affairs.
He has also served on the executive committee
of the National Science Foundation Center for
Biological Timing. He taught several medical
and graduate school courses, in addition to
ones in the School of Nursing, and worked
with medical students, residents, and fellows
in both the inpatient general medicine units
and the outpatient endocrinology clinics, and
mentored postdoctoral fellows across several
departments. More than half of his fellows went
on to careers in academic medicine.
A member of the Endocrine Society and
the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and a fellow in the American
Society of Physicians, Evans has also been elected to Alpha Phi Omega, the
Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Society for Clinical
Investigation.
Evans’ basic and clinical research focused on neuroendocrinology and reproductive
endocrinology. Some of his accomplishments include elucidation of the role
of cyclic ANP in subserving the self-priming effect of GnRH on the secretion
of luteinizing hormone. He was one of the first investigators, together with his
mentors Dr. Robert M. MacLeod and Dr. Michael O. Thorner, to treat patients with
prolactinomas with the dopamine agonist bromocriptine. Evans was a member of
the team which discovered and characterized the hypothalamic hormone growth
hormone releasing hormone (GHRH). Evans was continuously funded by the
National Institutes of Health and American Diabetes Association for 31 years. He
published 129 original scientific papers with 85 chapters and reviews, reviewed
for 17 journals, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrinology, and the Endocrine Journal.
In the future, Evans hopes to continue supporting divisional activities by helping
run the medical student and resident elective in endocrinology and the promotion
and tenure process. He will remain focused on research related to the link between
mechanisms supporting insulin resistance and PCOS.
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MR. GEORGE T. GILLIES
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1985 ~ 2019
Formerly with the International Bureau of
Weights and Measures, Sèvres, France,
and at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak
Ridge Complex, George Gillies’ research
interests include medical device development,
gravitational physics, and precision
measurement technology. He has authored or
co-authored over 310 publications and holds 40
U.S. patents. Starting in the 1980s, Gillies and
his collaborators developed remote magnetic
navigation technologies for minimally invasive
guidance of catheters. This led to their founding
of Stereotaxis, Inc.; the resulting clinical system
has treated heart arrhythmias in over 100,000
patients worldwide.
During his 35 years on the faculty, Gillies
served as an advisor, committee member, or
external examiner for 40 Ph.D. and 45 M.Sc. students. He was on the editorial
boards of Review of Scientific Instruments, Reports on Progress in Physics, and
Metrologia. As an ambassador of his group’s work at UVA, he delivered over 200
invited lectures in various settings in 26 states, and many keynote addresses at
international scientific conferences. Gillies was named a fellow of the National
Academy of Inventors in 2018 for his “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating
or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the
quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.” He is a fellow of
the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Medical and Biological
Engineering, and the Institute of Physics (GB), as well as a Life Senior Member of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Senior Member of the
Optical Society of America. He was the recipient of the UVA President and Visitors
Research Award in 1988, co-recipient of the Lewis F. Moody Fluids Engineering
Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2003, and received
the UVA Patent Foundation’s Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year award and
NDSU’s Alumni Achievement Award, both in 2007.
An avid long-distance runner, George looks forward to continued participation
in both local and out-of-state events, and seeks to complete a race in each of
the U.S. states and Canadian provinces. He also plans to expand his fruit and
vegetable gardens.
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MS. PATRICE P. GRIMES
Ph.D., Emory University
Associate Professor of Education, General Faculty
Curry School of Education and Human Development 2005 ~ 2019
A member of the faculty since 2005, Patrice
Grimes has provided excellent teaching,
creative research, and steadfast service to
both the University and the Curry School of
Education and Human Development, and has
also served as associate dean at the University
Office of African American Affairs (OAAA) since
2011.
Grimes’ scholarly work focuses on civic
education in African American schools. Since
joining OAAA, she has investigated ways to
support black students in higher education.
In 2007, Grimes was awarded the Exemplary
Research Award from the National Council
for the Social Studies for her article entitled,
“Teaching democracy before Brown: Civic
education in Georgia’s African-American
schools, 1930-1954.” A talented teacher, Grimes has taught Elementary Social
Studies Methods since 2005, a course that prepares future elementary teachers to
teach history and social science. She has ensured students learned about issues
related to diversity, equity, social justice, as well as what it means to teach. A
testament to her commitment to diversity and equity and its intersection with her
teaching, she recently received a grant through the Center for Teaching Excellence
to take students to Montpelier to learn about the lives of those enslaved by James
Madison. This is only one of the numerous examples that speak to the quality of
her instruction and her commitment to social justice education.
Grimes is an extraordinary mentor and a faculty member who has committed her
time and energy in service to the University and its community. She has had a long
and successful teaching career at Curry, has engaged in innovative scholarship,
and has served on several committees in addition to her work as associate dean
at OAAA. Her time at UVA is distinguished for many reasons, but is especially so
for the work she has done to support students of color at the University. She is a
beloved mentor and advisor who goes above and beyond in myriad ways, and she
will be greatly missed.
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DR. PETER W. HEYMANN
M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine 1978 ~ 2019
Peter Heymann has made lifelong contributions
to the care of children, and has attained
international regard for his research on the
interaction between viral infections caused
by rhinovirus and allergic inflammation as the
primary cause of asthma exacerbations in
children.
He strove to integrate allergy and pulmonary
medicine faculty in the care of children with
severe asthma, and, by 1995, led a combined
Division of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine.
He skillfully balanced teaching, service, and
research, and presented allergy topics at
numerous Pediatric Grand Rounds as well as
the Annual Department of Pediatrics McLemore
Birdsong Conference. Another fulfilled vision
was to develop an annual Department of
Pediatrics Research Day, wherein residents and fellows present developing
projects to a supportive audience. Heymann supervised 18 allergy fellows in a
range of highly successful projects, ones followed by sentinel publications and
career advancements.
He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology from 1994 to 1999, helping evolve it into a highly reputable journal
with an impact factor that consistently exceeds 12. Heymann’s research
accomplishments include sentinel publications elucidating infectious and allergic
mechanisms triggering acute wheeze episodes, and a Costa Rican study which
identified the critical role of dust mite sensitivity in the probability of wheeze events
in children with acute rhinoviral infections. Heymann recently received National
Institutes of Health funding for a fundamental study showing the impact of blocking
IgE-mediated inflammation with omalizumab on the progression of symptoms after
experimental rhinovirus inoculation in young adults with asthma.
Peter is widely admired for his abiding humility, friendliness, and amazing work
ethic. From trainees to faculty colleagues alike, he is known for his gracious smile,
infectious warmth, and compassion for others. He will always be considered an
original statesman in the advancement of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the
University of Virginia.
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MR. YUNSHENG HUANG
Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Professor of Architectural History, General Faculty
School of Architecture 1986 ~ 2020
Yunsheng Huang has taught in the Architectural
History Department at the University of
Virginia’s School of Architecture since 1986.
Before he arrived at UVA, he taught at Cornell
University, and served as a design consultant
for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1991,
with the support of the Ellen Bayard Weedon
Foundation, Huang helped to launch the Summer
Institute on Chinese Culture and Civilization in
collaboration with UVA’s East Asian Center.
Two years later, the program transformed into a
summer study abroad program in China. While
the program has evolved over the years, the
intellectual and institutional bridges that Huang
forged have been instrumental for the School
of Architecture’s and the University’s ongoing
connections to China.
Trained as an architect, Huang also has a deep expertise in the history of
architecture in East Asia, from the pre-modern period through the contemporary
moment. A consummate teacher-scholar, Huang’s signature course, East Meets
West, introduced students to the history of modern architecture through the lens
of cross-cultural and transnational exchange, long before this became a standard
approach in architectural history. Over the years, Huang has offered an impressive
array of courses, from World Buddhist Architecture, Cities in East Asia, and
the Architecture of Modern Japan, to courses on the history of UNESCO’s role
in cultural heritage and preservation practices as well as a recent seminar on
Architecture and Music.
Yunsheng Huang’s teaching has benefitted from his ongoing fieldwork and research
across East Asia and the United States. He recently published the fi rst Chinese-
language book on Thomas Jeff erson’s architecture, The Presidential Architect:
Thomas Jefferson and his Architectural Life (China Jiangsu Tech Publication). This
publication and the international symposium held in China in December 2019 to
celebrate its launch are crowning achievements in a career dedicated to expanding
dialogue between UVA and universities in China, as well as the United States
and East Asia. His earlier publications include Classical Orders in Architecture
(Beijing Architectural Press, 2016), as well as numerous entries for encyclopedias
of architecture and essays on historical construction technologies.
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DR. ALAN D. JENKINS
M.D., Boston University
Associate Professor of Urology
School of Medicine 1984 ~ 2020
Alan Jenkins received a B.S. in physics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
before his M.D. from Boston University. He
later matched at UVA and completed six years
of training in General Surgery and Urology,
followed by a two-year research fellowship at
the Mayo Clinic. His first faculty appointment
was at the University of Texas Medical School
at Houston.
Jenkins became interested in urinary tract stone
disease when he was a Urology resident. As his
training drew to a close, the treatment of this
disorder was undergoing a revolution with the
introduction of shock wave lithotripsy and less
invasive methods of kidney stone removal.
Dr. Jay Gillenwater, then the Chair of Urology at
UVA, fought for the University’s installation of one of six Dornier HM3 lithotriptors
that were part of the initial Food and Drug Administration trials in the United
States. He invited Jenkins to return to Charlottesville to run the lithotripter after
training in Munich, Germany. Over his 35 years at UVA, Jenkins trained dozens of
Urology residents, completed approximately 2,000 percutaneous stone removal
procedures, 5,000 ureteroscopies, and over 10,000 ESWLs, and also authored
chapters in the Textbook of Endourology and Stone Surgery. Few urologists in
the world have had similar amounts of experience in treating patients with kidney
stones, and Jenkins was chosen for the Best Doctors in America from its origin
in 1989 until 2014. Speaking to the impact and importance of Jenkins’ career, a
technician in Interventional Radiology in which Jenkins performed the percutaneous
stone removal procedures said that his retirement was “the end of an era.”
Alan and his wife, Barbara, have moved to Louisa, Virginia, within an hour’s drive
of their four children and six grandchildren, and are currently converting their
Charlottesville home into an AirBnB. During a retirement that follows a lengthy
career predicated on service and innovation, Alan hopes to spend more time at his
home in Nags Head and make annual trips to Hawaii.
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MR. ROBERT E. JOHNSON
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
John L. Newcomb Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1971 ~ 2019
A theoretical physicist and mathematician from
the University of Wisconsin, Bob Johnson joined
the University’s engineering physics faculty as
an assistant professor in 1971, received tenure
in 1977, and served as Assistant Dean of the
School of Engineering & Applied Science from
1982 to 1985. The dawn of the Space Age
inspired Johnson to consider the impact of
solar radiation on airless planetary surfaces
and the development of atmosphere, and he
retires with nearly 50 years of service at UVA,
having worked in both the Materials Science
and Engineering and Astronomy departments.
A founder of the computational planetary
science field, Johnson developed mathematical
methods and collaborated on synergistic
experimental laboratory work with scientists
at UVA, Bell Laboratories, Uppsala University, Catania University, and NASA
Goddard to predict the physical and chemical phenomena of our solar system. His
manifold contributions to planetary astronomy include models of the erosion of ices
by magnetospheric ions on Galilean satellites, charge-transfer between icy grains
in Saturn’s rings, exospheric production on the Moon and Mercury, Voyager image
analysis of Europa, and darkening on Pluto. Johnson revolutionized understanding
of Saturn and its environs and was an integral member of NASA’s Cassini Mission,
honored with the NASA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Mission in
2008. Johnson headed UVA’s Engineering Physics Graduate Program for 25
years, mentoring students with interests in astronomy, space physics, biophysics,
materials science, and detector development. His students and postdocs hold
significant positions at NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Laboratory, to name only a few. Johnson has published over 350
scientific publications, has authored two seminal graduate-level textbooks, and is
currently completing a third book.
For many years, Bob taught popular undergraduate courses in Applied
Mathematics, earning the affectionate nickname “Space Bob,” and has been
inducted into the (semi-secret) Society of P.R.I. by his students. Always generous
with his time and energy, Bob continues to mentor his students and colleagues,
also providing motivation for art pieces created by artist Barbara MacCallum,
his wife. After retirement, he plans to enjoy time with his family, splitting his time
between Charlottesville, Maine, and New York.
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MR. DANIEL M. KEENAN
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of Statistics
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1989 ~ 2020
Daniel Keenan came to UVA in 1989, as part
of the creation of a Division of Statistics within
the Mathematics Department. In the 1990s,
a Department of Statistics was established.
From 1980 to 1995, his research focused on
the application of mathematics and statistics to
machine learning, computer vision, and pattern
theory. During this period, Keenan received
funding from the Department of Defense,
through both the Department of the Army and the
Department of the Navy. Keenan’s eff orts later
resulted in a new geometrical theory of shape
and a widely applied deformable templates
method that allows shape information to be
incorporated into the broad range of computer
vision methodologies.
From 1995 to today, his interests have shifted to
the application of mathematics and statistics in medicine.
From 2001 through 2005, Keenan was on leave, funded full-time by National
Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for his efforts to merge
medicine and mathematics. During this time, he completed the Years I-II M.D.
coursework in the UVA School of Medicine for credit, a year of animal surgeries,
and another year undergoing medical training. His research since then has focused
on modeling the various hormonal systems and the brain, each in both health
and disease. One aspect of the research laid a foundation for understanding how
the reproductive hormones, growth hormone, stress hormone, as well as glucose
metabolism, all function under homeostasis as well as under its loss.
Keenan has supervised numerous doctoral students while at the University, has
published more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has authored a book.
During his career, he held the position of Director of Graduate Studies for over
10 years, with part of this time spent as chairman. In retirement, Keenan plans
to complete several books, one in medicine and the other two in probability and
statistics, and to continue ongoing work on brain arousal.
Daniel says that being at UVA has been one of his life’s greatest pleasures and
that he will greatly miss it!
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MR. LUKE E. KELLY
Ph.D., Texas Woman’s University
Virgil S. Ward Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1984 ~ 2019
Luke Kelly joined the faculty at UVA to lead its
adapted physical education program, and has
been a model faculty member for 35 years.
In 1992, he created a unique teacher training
grant model with Albemarle County Schools
in which students serve as adapted physical
educators. This model continues today and
has produced over 250 graduates who have
taught thousands of children with disabilities
nationwide. Kelly was funded by the US
Department of Education’s Office of Special
Education to create the fi rst Adapted Physical
Education National Standards (APENS).
The APENS Exam was created under Kelly’s
direction in 1996 and is still in use today. Kelly is
especially notable for creating the Achievement
Based Curriculum (ABC) model. Supported by
three consecutive federal grants from the US
Department of Education National Diffusion Network, he worked with over 400
school districts across the country to create ABC to accommodate the needs of
students in general physical education (GPE). From these projects, Kelly wrote
three books on applying the ABC model in GPE and one book on applying the ABC
model when creating adapted physical education curriculums for students with
disabilities whose needs GPE cannot meet.
A longtime leader in Kinesiology for individuals with disabilities, Kelly served as
the chair of the Adapted Physical Activity Council through SHAPE America, and
as president of the National Consortium of Physical Education for Individuals with
Disabilities. He also held leadership roles at UVA including chair of the Department
of Human Services and chief technology officer within the Curry School of
Education and Human Development, and chaired the Curry Budget Advisory
Committee during the transition to the current RCM budget model.
Luke is a valued colleague and friend to all members of the Kinesiology family. An
avid fisherman, he spent many weekends on the river with his three children and
had stories to tell about their fishing adventures. During the last part of his career,
he spent weekends and holidays building a river house on the James. He and his
wife Beth recently purchased a house on the water in South Carolina. They plan
on splitting their time between Charlottesville and South Carolina.
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MS. MARÍA-INÉS LAGOS
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of Spanish
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2002 ~ 2019
María-Inés Lagos has devoted her scholarly
work to the writings of Latin American women
authors, and has taught a variety of courses on
Modern Latin American literature and culture.
Her main areas of concentration are twentieth
and twenty-first century Latin American
narrative, Latin American women’s fiction and
autobiographical writing, and gender theory.
A native of Chile, where she studied Spanish
and Latin literature before coming to Columbia
University for her M.A. and Ph.D., Lagos has
always been interested in conveying to her
students an appreciation for Latin America’s
literature and culture, while ensuring the
powerful words and intersectional issues of
women are included in syllabi, reading lists, and
exam questions. Her books, En tono mayor:
relatos de formación de protagonista femenina en Hispanoamérica (Santiago de
Chile: Cuarto Propio, 1996), and Hechura y confección: escritura y subjetividad
en narraciones de mujeres latinoamericanas (Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio,
2009) are both groundbreaking and often quoted.
She has served as department chair, Undergraduate Director, Director of Diversity
and Inclusion, first-year students’ advisor, as chair and member of search and
promotions committees, and in other related capacities that contributed to the
smooth running of the department’s Spanish programs. UVA students are the
most genuinely interested and perceptive pupils in the study of the humanities she
has experienced in her career. She remembers teaching her University Seminar,
titled “Women between Cultures: U.S. Latinas in their Writing,” as an especially
rewarding experience at the University.
In retirement, María-Inés plans to complete a study on recent memoirs by Latin
American women and to enjoy spending more time with her granddaughter,
Carolina. She is grateful for having been part of the Department of Spanish, Italian
and Portuguese for seventeen years, and to her daughter Leslie, who alongside
the rest of her family makes her very proud, and to her husband Randolph for long
conversations which are never boring.
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MR. JAMES C. MCDANIEL
Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1983 ~ 2020
James McDaniel received his B.S. in Aerospace
Engineering from the University of Virginia, and
M.S. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics
and Electrical Engineering as well as a Ph.D.
in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford
University. From 1971 to 1976, he served as an
active duty pilot in the United States Air Force,
flying a variety of aircraft, including the T-38
supersonic trainer and the HC-130 air/sea rescue
aircraft. McDaniel was a postdoctoral fellow in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at
Stanford from 1981 to 1983, and in that position,
he initiated several new combustion diagnostic
techniques, producing the first Planar Laser-
Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) of OH in a flame.
Having joined the faculty at the University of
Virginia in 1983 as an assistant professor,
McDaniel was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to professor in 1989. His
research interests include nonintrusive laser-based diagnostics for characterizing
fluid flowfields, hypersonic propulsion and hypersonic aerodynamics. His PLIF
technique, which uses iodine as the fluorescing species, is unique for quantitatively
characterizing high-speed flows. McDaniel initiated UVA’s hypersonics research
program in 1983, which has received continuous funding since then. He served as
the Director of the Aerospace Research Laboratory from 1986 to 2004, and was
the principal investigator of the National Center for Hypersonic Combined Cycle
Propulsion, a five-year Center of Excellence in Hypersonics, funded by NASA and
the US Air Force.
McDaniel has taught fourth-year aircraft design for more than 25 years. His
student teams have won many NASA and Federal Aviation Administration national
aircraft design competitions. He obtained funding for an aircraft flight simulator
and established the flight simulator lab for use in teaching flight vehicle dynamics.
He has been the UVA Liaison Professor to the National Institute of Aerospace,
serves on the Virginia Governor’s Aerospace Advisory Committee, and is the UVA
representative to the Universities Space Research Association. He has published
more than 70 journal articles and 150 conference papers.
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MR. JEROME MCGANN
Ph.D., Yale University
John Stewart Bryan Professor of English and University Professor
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1987 ~ 2020
Jerome McGann, grandson, son, and brother
of printers and the first winner of the Richard
W. Lyman Award for “advanced humanistic
scholarship and teaching through the innovative
use of information technology,” has lived out a
career that possessed a shaping influence on
the trajectory of contemporary literary studies.
McGann has been a major voice in at least
four areas of literary studies including literature
of the Romantic era, the “New Historicism” in
literary criticism, revisionary theory and practice
of textual editing, and the digital humanities.
McGann taught at the University of Chicago,
Johns Hopkins University, and the California
Institute of Technology before becoming
Commonwealth Professor and later the John
Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His 2001 book,
Radiant Textuality: Literature Since the World Wide Web, won the James Russell
Lowell Award for the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year in 2002 from
the Modern Language Association.
McGann has been one of the main forces behind UVA’s initiatives in digital
humanities and electronic publishing. At the University’s Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities (IATH), he created the Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Archive, a hypertextual and multimedia archive, edition and commentary on the
work of Rossetti’s poetry and paintings that helped establish the paradigm for a
new media approach to humanities texts based on the combination of rigorous
text-encoding standards and adventurous use of hypertext principles. McGann’s
more recent digital initiatives include the Ivanhoe Project, co-created with Johanna
Drucker, which created a new critical and pedagogical approach to literature
based on a role-playing computer “game” paradigm, and the Networked Interface
for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) project, which builds
an institutional structure of peer-reviewed online scholarship in the humanities
complemented by a suite of advanced humanities digital tools. NINES was
created after McGann received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s $1.5 million
Distinguished Achievement Award in the humanities.
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DR. NANCY M. MCLAREN
M.D., Emory University
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine 1999 ~ 2019
Nancy McLaren graduated with a B.A. from
St. Lawrence University and received her M.D.
from Emory University School of Medicine. She
completed her pediatrics residency at Emory,
and remained as a clinical assistant professor
in the Pediatrics and Family & Preventive
Medicine departments until 1999, at which
point she joined the faculty of the University of
Virginia.
At the University, McLaren worked as an
attending physician and was the medical
director of UVA’s Teen and Young Adult Health
Center until December 2019, also spending
a period as a faculty physician at the Elson
Student Health Center.
McLaren provided medical care to adolescents
and young adults who have traditionally had difficulty finding those services. In
2015, she started a Transgender Health Clinic to meet the medical and other
needs of transgender youth, the first clinic of its kind in the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Since then, this interdepartmental collaboration has cared for more than
300 patients. Dr. McLaren also led the effort to begin an interdisciplinary Eating
Disorders service, which rapidly expanded and continues to grow. She is a tireless
advocate for confidential reproductive care for adolescents, and her work in this
regard has helped Albemarle County maintain the lowest teen pregnancy rate in
Virginia.
Mclaren also served for several years as the school physician for St. Anne’s-
Belfi eld School.
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MR. DEFOREST MELLON JR.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Biology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1963 ~ 2020
Fifty Years of Service
DeForest Mellon Jr. joined the Biology
Department faculty as an assistant professor
in 1963, having been recruited by department
chair Dietrich Bodenstein.
In graduate school at Johns Hopkins
University, and as a postdoctoral fellow at
Stanford University, Mellon gained expertise
in electrophysiological experimentation. His
subsequent career has been devoted to sensory
physiology and neuroethological studies with
mollusks and arthropods, primarily those of
crustaceans.
The mechanisms and systems Mellon has
studied include taste reception in blowflies,
central reflexes in mollusks, oculomotor reflex
organization in crayfish, organization of the
central olfactory system in large crustaceans, and mechanisms of very fast
synapse transmission in marine shrimp. His final experimental paper, entitled
“Numerical Analysis and Modeling of Impulse Conduction Velocity in Sensory
Neurons Associated with Near-field Receptors on the Crayfish Cephalothorax”
was submitted for publication in February of this year.
Mellon’s honors and awards include pre- and postdoctoral fellowships from the
U.S. Public Health Service, election as a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, appointment as a Guggenheim Fellow, and Thomas
Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.
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MR. MICHAEL MENAKER
Ph.D., Princeton University
Commonwealth Professor of Biology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1987 ~ 2020
Mike Menaker was born in Vienna, Austria,
while his American parents were studying
psychology at Freud’s Institute. Both parents
completed Ph.D. degrees in Austria and in
1935, due to the rise of Nazism, the family
returned to New York and settled in Manhattan,
where Menaker grew up in an environment
that richly supported his developing interest
in biology, living across the street from the
American Museum of Natural History.
Menaker received his B.A. from Swarthmore
College. At Princeton University, he worked
with C.S. Pittendrigh, a founder of circadian
biology (Menaker’s career-long field). He did
postdoctoral work at Harvard University and
became assistant professor in the Department
of Zoology at the University of Texas, Austin,
where he remained faculty for 17 years. In 1979, he became the founding director
of the University of Oregon’s Institute of Neuroscience. Menaker came to UVA in
1986 as chair of the Department of Biology and became Commonwealth Professor
of Biology. Menaker authored more than 240 scientific papers, 26 of which are
in the renowned journals Science and Nature. He has received an NIH career
development award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award
from the American Society of Photobiology, Virginia’s Outstanding Scientists and
Industrialists: Life Achievement in Science Award, the Peter C Farrell Prize in
Sleep Medicine from Harvard, the UVA Distinguished Scientist Award, the Directors
Award for Mentoring from the Society for the Study of Biological Rhythms, and the
Aschoff Honma Prize. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 1983, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences in 1999.
Students, particularly first years and Ph.D. students, have been the joy of his
professional life. Mike feels that it is wonderful to see and play a small part in
the intellectual and personal development of undergraduates who come to the
University seeking answers and brimming with untested ideals and unbounded
curiosity. His 26 Ph.D. students and 37 postdoctoral fellows form an extended
scientific family. Their progress in their careers, particularly their scientific
accomplishments, keep Mike connected to them and to the science that has
enriched his life.
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DR. STACEY E. MILLS
M.D., University of Virginia
William Stamps Royster Professor of Pathology
School of Medicine 1979 ~ 2020
Stacey Mills, known to many as Chuck, was
born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1951. He earned
his bachelor’s in Biology from the College of
William and Mary and his doctorate in Medicine
from the University of Virginia. Following
graduation, he stayed on at UVA as a resident
in Pathology and joined the faculty in 1981.
Over the ensuing years, he rose to become the
William Stamps Royster Professor of Pathology
and Director of Anatomic Pathology. He has
participated in the training of over 200 residents
and fellows. He has an international reputation,
receiving almost 1000 consultations a year from
colleagues around the world needing help with
problematic cases.
Mills has authored or co-authored over 250
manuscripts, numerous chapters, and multiple
textbooks. Notable authored or edited textbooks include an Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology (AFIP) fascicle on bone tumors, two AFIP fascicles on Head and
Neck tumors, and multiple editions of Diagnostic Surgical Pathology and Histology
for Pathologists, two publications considered the top in their field.
Mills’ journal editing history began as associate editor of the American Journal of
Clinical Pathology from 1990 to 1994, followed by becoming the editor of Modern
Pathology from 1995 to 2000. In 2000, he became editor in chief of the American
Journal of Surgical Pathology, widely recognized as the premier journal for surgical
pathologists, and continues to hold this position. In 2018, the United States and
Canadian Academy of Pathology gave Mills its highest honor, bestowed on one
pathologist each year, The Distinguished Pathologist Award.
Chuck’s extra-professional pursuits are many and varied. He is an avid scuba diver
with training to the level of instructor and full cave diver. He has over 1000 hours
underwater and over 200 dives in underwater caves, many as decompression
dives. He is both an amateur radio operator and a computer programmer,
having written numerous command and control software programs for amateur
communications satellites. He builds and flies radio-controlled model aircraft,
some powered by miniature jet turbines and capable of speeds over 200 miles per
hour. More recently, he has renewed his interest in astronomy, becoming an avid
astrophotographer.
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MR. JOHN NORTON MOORE
L.L.M., University of Illinois at Chicago
Walter L. Brown Professor of Law
School of Law 1966 ~ 2019
Fifty Years of Service
John Norton Moore is an authority on
international law, national security law, and
the law of the sea. After receiving his B.A. in
Economics from Drew University, Moore earned
his J.D. with distinction from Duke University,
and an L.L.M. from the University of Illinois. He
taught the first course in the country on national
security law and conceived and co-authored
the first casebook on the subject. He retired
from the School of Law faculty after 53 years
of service, which included directing the School
of Law’s Center for National Security Law, the
Center for Oceans Law, and from 1968 to 1993,
the Graduate Studies Program.
From 1973 to 1976, Moore chaired the National
Security Council Interagency Task Force on the
Law of the Sea and was an ambassador and
deputy special representative of the president to the Law of the Sea Conference.
Previously, he served as the counselor on international law to the State Department.
With the deputy attorney general of the United States, he was co-chair in March
1990 of the U.S.-USSR talks in Moscow and Leningrad on the rule of law. As a
consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he was honored by the
director for his work on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Interpretation Project. From
1991 to 1993, during the Gulf War and its aftermath, Moore was the principal
legal adviser to the Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States and to the Kuwait
delegation to the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission. Moore
chaired the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace from 1985 to 1991, one
of six presidential appointments he has held.
A frequent witness before congressional committees on maritime policy, legal
aspects of foreign policy, national security, war and treaty powers, and democracy
and human rights, Moore has also been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. Moore is a member of advisory
and editorial boards for nine journals and numerous professional organizations,
and has published extensively himself.
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DR. RAYMOND F. MORGAN
D.M.D., University of Pittsburgh / M.D., West Virginia University
Milton T. Edgerton Professor of Plastic Surgery
School of Medicine 1982 ~ 2020
In addition to his M.D., Raymond Morgan holds
a master’s in Higher Education and a D.M.D.
He performed his internship and residencies
in both General Surgery and Plastic Surgery
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed
his Fellowship in Surgery of the Hand at The
Raymond M. Curtis National Hand Center in
Baltimore. Morgan has a particular interest in
caring for children with congenital “differences”
of the hands and feet, and developed close
relationships with patients and their families
over the years. Experiences like a child
returning to the clinic to play their new violin or
seeing a video of a child kicking their fi rst soccer
goal have been deeply rewarding.
An exceptionally active professional, Morgan
was both president of the Plastic Surgery
Research Council and the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, was a director
on the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and served three terms as a regent of
the American College of Surgeons. At UVA, he was Chair of the Department of
Plastic Surgery from 1988 until 2017, President of the University Physicians Group,
a member of the Faculty Senate, and Co-Director of the UVA Hand Center since
its 2010 creation. In 2016, the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons
honored him as Robert M. Goldwyn Academic Mentor of the Year. In 2017, he
received the Professor Abraham Colles Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons
of Ireland. Morgan is also a member of the academic medical honor society Alpha
Omega Alpha, and author or co-author of more than 270 scientific publications.
During retirement, Morgan plans to work with his professional organizations while
continuing to write and speak about plastic surgery and historical medical topics.
A frequent player of tennis with friends and family, Raymond has been an avid
runner since his time at Johns Hopkins, and has completed 30 marathons, including
the 25th New York Marathon and 100th Running of the Boston Marathon. Each
year at Plastic Surgery’s graduation, which he hosts at the Rotunda or Colonnade
Club, he has spoken about events of historical significance in their fi eld, relating
them to historical events at the University. Residents now check in advance to
make sure this tradition continues for their graduations.
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MR. EDGAR O. OLSEN
Ph.D., Rice University
Professor of Economics
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1970 ~ 2020
Fifty Years of Service
Edgar Olsen moved to Charlottesville as
an assistant professor of Economics at the
University of Virginia in 1970. Previously, he
was a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University,
an economist at the Rand Corporation, a visiting
professor in the Department of Economics
at the University of Wisconsin, and a visiting
scholar at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. Olsen served as Chair of
the Department of Economics and was heavily
involved in the creation and development of the
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public
Policy.
Olsen's teaching and research has focused
on public policy issues, especially concerning
the welfare system. Within this broader area,
his research specialty is low-income housing
policy. An accomplished, influential scholastic author, Olsen has published
papers on housing markets and policies in professional journals such as the
American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public
Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management. In the classroom, he has consistently been one of
the most conscientious and demanding undergraduate teachers and advisors in
the Department, teaching courses in public economics, the economics of welfare
programs, and public policy evaluation, among other topics, to students in both
Batten and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Olsen has been deeply involved in helping to shape low-income housing policy at
the local and national levels. He has testified on low-income housing policy before
Congressional committees seven times, has been an expert witness on the topic
in two major class-action lawsuits, has been a consultant to the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during six administrations, and was a
member of the 2007 National Academy of Sciences’ Committee to Evaluate the
Research Plan of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Olsen
was also a member of the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) Technical
Review Panel.
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MR. GREGORY ORR
M.F.A., Columbia University
Professor of English
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1975 ~ 2020
Gregory Orr grew up in the rural Hudson
River Valley of New York. He received a
B.A. from Antioch College, his M.F.A. from
Columbia University, and joined the faculty of
the University of Virginia in 1975. Throughout
his 44 years at UVA, Orr has been a beloved
and inspiring advisor, teacher, and colleague.
In the late 1970s, he co-founded and wasthe
first to direct the M.F.A. in Creative Writing,
shaping a program now regarded as one of
the world’s best. Orr has served generations of
undergraduate and graduate students, many
of whom have published books and won the
nation’s most prestigious poetry prizes.
Lauded by the Paris Review as a “master of the
lyric poem,” Orr has authored over 12 collections
of poetry. From 1978 to 2003, he served as
Poetry Consultant for the Virginia Quarterly Review. Orr’s many awards include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright teaching prize, two poetry fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Award in Literature of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Institute for the
Study of Culture and Violence. He has also lectured at the National Gallery of Art.
In his essay “The Making of Poems,” broadcast on National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered, Orr said, “I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the
emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being
alive.” Orr has written with intensity about trauma, love, time, loss, and the natural
world, and has recently expanded his lyric territory to include writing about poetry
itself. Orr titled one of his most popular courses at UVA “Poetry Can Save Your
Life,” and began this class by telling his students, ”Poetry won’t save your life if you
are passive, but you can save your life by having an active relationship with poetry,
by finding and cherishing and pondering those poems you most love—those that
speak directly and forcefully to your reality, or those that evoke the mysteries and
confusions you recognize as not just the poet’s, but your own. To save your own life
through a vital relationship with powerful poems—that’s something worth doing.” In
his teaching, service, and writing, Orr has been, and remains, ever attuned to “the
expressive joy of writing poems.”
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MR. BRIAN J. PARSHALL
Ph.D., Yale University
Gordon Thomas Whyburn Professor of Mathematics
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1972 ~ 2020
Brian Parshall received his doctorate in
mathematics from Yale in 1971. After completing
two years of service in the United States Army,
he joined the UVA Department of Mathematics
in 1972 as an assistant professor. He rose to
full professor in 1983, and in 1996 became
the Gordon Thomas Whyburn Professor of
Mathematics. As its chair from 1993 to 1999,
he shaped the department during these
years and beyond. Always an advocate of the
highest academic standards in the faculty,
he was forever generous with service to the
department, and returned as chair from 2010
to 2012.
Parshall’s highly influential research centers
on representation theory and cohomology of
algebraic and quantum groups, as well as of
finite dimensional Lie and associative algebras.
He published over 100 articles and mentored nine Ph.D. students, and in 2009
helped found the National Science Foundation-funded annual workshop series
called Southeaster Lie Theory. Numerous practicing mathematicians are grateful
for his mentorship and intellectual leadership.
Parshall’s career also involved especially noteworthy research collaborations.
One famous collaboration, known as CPS for its members Edward Cline, Brian
Parshall, and Leonard Scott, created its fi rst joint research publication at UVA from
1972 to 1973, and went on to create 28 more over the next 40 years, until Cline
passed away in 2012. The trio is believed to be the longest-running three-person
research team in all of mathematics. Parshall had other high profile collaborations,
including seven publications with Jianpan Wang at East China Normal University,
who later became president of that university, and 13 more with Eric Friedlander
of Southern California University, who later served a term as president of the
American Mathematical Society, a national flagship. Parshall was named a fellow
of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Though retiring, Brian will continue his scholarship and mentorship for many years
to come.
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MR. KENNETH K. PFISTER
Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of Cell Biology
School of Medicine 1990 ~ 2019
Kenneth Pfister grew up in Dover, Delaware, and
obtained his B.A. at UVA, where he was awarded
the biology department’s Miller Scholarship.
After earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biology
at Princeton University, he pursued research
fellowships at The Worcester Foundation
for Experimental Biology, the University of
California, Berkeley, and the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical School. His major
research interest is the structure, function, and
regulation of the motor proteins that generate
movement inside cells. His research at UVA
concentrated on investigating the regulation
of motor proteins, especially dynein, used
to transport cargos such as membranous
organelles along neuronal axons.
Pfister’s lab has used a combination of live
cell imaging and molecular biology/biochemical approaches, and most recently
identified the components involved in regulation of motor protein binding to axonal
growth factor receptors for their transport to the cell body. The lab has created
important monoclonal antibodies to motor proteins that have been made available
commercially to the research community and have been widely used to advance
our understanding of motor protein function. Pfister’s research has been funded by
the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes, and The Jeff ress Foundation.
He has published 128 primary research articles, in addition to many invited
chapters, numerous encyclopedia entries, and conference presentations. He co-
organized conferences on axonal transport, edited a book on motility in neurons,
and mentored postgraduate trainees as well as graduate and undergraduate
students. In retirement, he is maintaining an active interest in scholarship and is
working on two research manuscripts.
Kenneth developed an interest in open water swimming, and he has participated
in mile-long swimming races, including the Golden Gate Swim in San Francisco as
well as relay team races across Lake Tahoe and the Maui Channel in Hawaii. More
recently, he has rekindled an interest in travel, visiting iconic World Heritage Sites
such as Mycenae, Petra, Machu Picchu, and Angkor Wat, and plans to devote
more time to travel in retirement.
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MS. ELAYNE K. PHILLIPS
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Associate Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing 2002 ~ 2019
Elayne Kornblatt Phillips received her B.S.
in nursing from Temple University, and later
earned her M.P.H. in epidemiology and Ph.D.
in organizational behavior from Johns Hopkins
University School of Public Health. Early in her
career, she worked in the Philadelphia Health
Department as a public health nurse, covering
Chinatown, Society Hill and South Street. After
this, Phillips traveled throughout the Maryland
Developmental Disabilities Administration
Eastern Shore region coordinating efforts
with local health departments. Before arriving
at UVA, she lectured at Johns Hopkins
University, explored organizational structures
of U.S. health departments for the Institute of
Medicine, and conducted a national survey for
the American Health Planning Association.
Phillips first came to the UVA School of Nursing in 1982. In addition to teaching
courses in healthcare organization and epidemiology, she examined the impact of
legislation on the healthcare system. She was awarded a grant from the National
Center for Health Services Research (now AHRQ) to document the initial impact
of prospective payment and early hospital discharge on home health services. She
then served as research director of the International Health Care Worker Safety
Center in the UVA School of Medicine. With funding from the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, she examined the impact of the Needlestick
Safety & Prevention Act on hospital worker injuries and related national costs. She
co-directed UVA’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Occupational
Health and developed low-cost strategies for reducing health care worker risk in
resource-limited countries. Phillips has published widely and spoken across the
U.S. and internationally.
During the last six years of her career, Phillips returned to the School of Nursing
in the Office for Nursing Research, collaborating with faculty in their writing for
publications and grant proposals, launching future generations of teachers and
researchers. She was inducted into the public health honorary society Delta
Omega, as well as the nursing honorary society Sigma Theta Tau, and is a fellow
in the American Academy of Nursing.
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MR. STEVE RAILTON
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of English
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1974 ~ 2020
Steve Railton discovered the New England
coast as a boy on Martha’s Vineyard. This may
have inspired his interest in Herman Melville,
whose Moby Dick bore connections to the
area and the broader Atlantic shore. Railton
earned all his degrees at Columbia University,
then lived in an Edgartown cottage on Martha's
Vineyard and painted a church steeple while
writing his dissertation.
Railton cultivated a richly productive 45-year
career in the Department of English, which he
joined in 1974, at the age of 26. As a scholar and
editor specializing in nineteenth and twentieth-
century American literature he has made large
contributions, both in print and digitally, to our
understanding of major American writers.
In 1978, he authored Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination,
arguing Cooper was the founding father of the American novel. His 1991 book,
Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance,
discussed Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe,
Henry David Thoreau, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 2003, he published Mark
Twain: A Short Introduction. His electronic projects on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the
works of Mark Twain and William Faulkner have thousands of users around the
globe.
Railton’s career as a scholar of self-reliant integrity has matched his career as a
superlative teacher. Even in his final semester, he continued his long-standing
practice of dividing the Friday meeting of his lecture into two discussion sections,
both of which he led himself. Beyond the University, thousands of students of all
ages will continue to learn from his web-based courses, though he will no longer
be among us on Grounds. We know he accounts it "high time to get to sea."
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MR. GABRIEL ROBINS
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1992 ~ 2019
Gabriel Robins is a Professor in the Department
of Computer Science, where he has received
an NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard
Foundation Fellowship, the SIAM Outstanding
Paper Prize, a University Teaching Fellowship,
an All-University Outstanding Teaching Award,
a Faculty Mentor Award, the Walter N. Munster
Endowed Chair, and the Virginia Engineering
Foundation Faculty Appreciation Award.
Robins’ primary area of research is very-
large-scale integration computer aided design
(VLSI CAD), and he co-authored a book
on high-performance routing. His additional
research interests include algorithms, radio-
frequency identification (RFID), bioinformatics,
computational geometry, combinatorial
optimization, and computational biology.
Robins consults as an expert witness in patent litigations, infringement analyses,
and other intellectual property court cases in all areas of computer science. He
served as Associate Editor of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, and is
currently on the Editorial Board of Research Letters in Electronics. He was a
member of the Army Science Board, a federal advisory committee to the U.S.
Army on science, technology, and research, and is an alumnus of the Defense
Science Study Group, an advisory panel to the U.S. Department of Defense. He
also served on the Navy Future Study panel of the National Academy of Sciences.
Robins was General Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special
Interest Group on Design Automation Physical Design Workshop (ACM: SIGDA) in
1996, and co-founded the International Symposium on Physical Design in 1997. He
served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Symposium
on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE International Application-Specific Integrated
Circuit / System-on-Chip Conference (ASIC/SOCC), the Great Lakes Symposium
on VLSI, and the Canadian Workshop on Field-Programmable Devices, and the
Editorial Board of the IEEE Book Series.
Gabe founded the UVA Computer Science Web Team and the UVA Computer
Science Museum. He also created the Computer Science Lounge, and produced
the Department of Computer Science brochure. His hobbies include dancing,
SCUBA diving, gardening, comic books, archery, weight lifting, roller skating, films,
and photography.
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MS. MILDRED W. ROBINSON
L.L.M., Harvard University /J.D., Howard University
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law
School of Law 1985 ~ 2020
Mildred Robinson retires after 35 years of service
as the first female African American professor to
hold tenure at the School of Law. After obtaining
her B.A. from Fisk University, Robinson earned
her J.D. from Howard University School of
Law, and her L.L.M. from Harvard Law School.
Robinson joined the UVA School of Law faculty
in 1985 following 12 distinguished years on the
faculty at Florida State University College of
Law, where she served as academic associate
dean and received the President’s Award for
teaching excellence. She had previously served
at Boston University School of Law as assistant
dean for Admission and Financial Aid.
Robinson has displayed an extraordinary
commitment to public service in the realm
of legal education throughout her career as
a teacher and scholar. She was a member of the executive committee of the
Association of American Law Schools from 2000 to 2003, and continues to serve
as a member of that organization’s Resource Corps. She has served on the
board of trustees of the Law School Admission Council, a national organization
that oversees the administration of, and research pertinent to, the LSAT. She also
served on the inaugural board of directors for Law Access, Inc., now The Access
Group, which focuses on educational lending, and was a member of the board of
visitors for the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University from 1993
to 1996. Her teaching and scholarship focused on areas of federal and state tax
law and issues of social fairness in finance. An elected member of the American
Law Institute, Robinson is the co-author of numerous publications, including the
2009 book Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board
of Education.
Locally, Robinson chaired the board of directors of Piedmont Court Appointed
Special Advocates, chaired the board of trustees of Martha Jefferson Hospital,
and served on the board of directors of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. At the
University, she was a member of the faculty senate and the Women’s Leadership
Council. At the School of Law, she created and managed the “Profiles from
Practice” series, which brought lawyers to the School to expose students to role
models of diverse backgrounds.
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MR. TIMOTHY A. SALTHOUSE
Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2000 ~ 2020
Timothy Salthouse is a preeminent researcher
of cognitive aging. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan. He became a full
professor of Psychology at the University
of Missouri, and Regents Professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. After these
appointments, Salthouse was recruited as
Brown-Furman Professor of Psychology at the
University of Virginia in 2000.
Upon his arrival at UVA, Salthouse started the
Virginia Cognitive Aging Project (VCAP), which
involves comprehensive cognitive assessments
in adults ranging from 18 to 99 years of age and
is currently one of the largest active longitudinal
studies of aging in the world. The VCAP has
received continuous National Institutes of
Health funding since 2001, and involves over
6000 participants, most tested for 3-8 age points. The data from this project have
resulted in over 130 publications, which have been cited over 19,000 times in
peer-reviewed articles. Salthouse has authored over 260 research articles, over
60 review chapters and 10 books, and currently holds an h-index of 67.
During his time in the Department of Psychology, Salthouse mentored numerous
graduate students and provided paid research assistantships to over 200 UVA
undergraduates. His research career has been one of the most influential and
impactful in the field of Cognitive Aging. He is an elected fellow of the American
Psychological Association, American Psychological Society (APS), Gerontological
Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
Society of Experimental Psychologists. He received numerous other honors during
his storied career, including: the APS William James Fellow Award; two NIH Method
to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Awards; ISI Highly Cited Researcher; and
the International Society for Intelligence Research Lifetime Achievement Award.
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MR. WILLIAM C. SASLAW
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Professor of Astronomy
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1970 ~ 2020
Fifty Years of Service
William Saslaw is a prominent theoretical
astrophysicist who is best known for his
work on the statistical mechanics of galaxy
clustering. Saslaw graduated Phi Beta Kappa
in Physics from Princeton University, where
he won an undergraduate physics prize. He
was a graduate student in the Department of
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
at the University of Cambridge, where he held
Fulbright and National Science Foundation
fellowships. Saslaw was a Miller Fellow at
the University of California, Berkeley, an
exceptionally prestigious postdoctoral program.
Saslaw came to UVA as an assistant professor
in 1970, received tenure in two years, and rose
to full professor in only one additional year.
For much of his early career, Saslaw held joint
appointments with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,
and the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. After early work in different
areas of astrophysics, particularly star formation and the interstellar medium, most
of Saslaw’s research has focused on cosmology, radio galaxies, and stellar and
galactic dynamics. He has written two books on this topic, a text entitled The
Distribution of the Galaxies: Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology, and a shorter
monograph, Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems. In total, he
has authored or co-authored 110 refereed publications, seven of which featured
in the highly notable scientifi c journal Nature. Saslaw has a total of 3,190 citations
and an h-index of 29. He has also helped to organize national and international
conferences, and serves in the Cambridge Society of Bombay.
Saslaw’s departmental service is extensive, and includes roles on the Student
Awards Committee and the Graduate Student Qualifying Exam committee, as
well as the Graduate Admissions Committee and the Library committee. Recently,
Saslaw has taught Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe, and a scientific
history seminar course titled Development of Modern Astronomy. In the past, he
taught a University Seminar, Advanced Astrophysics, and a graduate cosmology
course; his greatest contribution to teaching in Astronomy, however, has been his
mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students.
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DR. W. MICHAEL SCHELD
M.D., Cornell University
Bayer Corporation-Gerald L. Mandell Professor of Internal Medicine
School of Medicine 1979 ~ 2019
W. Michael Scheld received his B.S. with honors
and distinction as well as his medical degree
from Cornell University (with election to Alpha
Omega Alpha). He completed his internship,
residency, and fellowship in Infectious Diseases
at the University of Virginia Health System.
Scheld is the recipient of numerous honors and
awards including the Connie Guion honorary
scholarship at Cornell University Medical
College; the Good Physician Award, Cornell
University Medical College; on three occasions
the
Attending of the Year Award, chosen by
vote of the medical housestaff
at the University
of V
irginia; a Clinical Investigator Award from
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases; the Southern Section
American
Federation for Clinical Research–Y
oung Clinical
Investigator Award; the Virginia State Council for Higher Education Outstanding
Faculty Award; the Dean’s Award for excellence in teaching at the University
of Virginia, twice; the Department of Internal Medicine Award for excellence in
teaching, twice; the University of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award; the David
A.
Harrison Distinguished Educator Award; the Alumni Award of Distinction, Weill
Cornell Medical College; and the Alexander Fleming award for lifetime achievement
from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Scheld was a member of the Interscience Conference on
Antimicrobial Agents
and Chemotherapy Program Committee for 12 years; a member of the American
Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board on Infectious Diseases; chair
of Subspecialty Board on Infectious Diseases; vice president, president-elect,
president and immediate past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America; and a founding member of the Academic Alliance for AIDS and Care and
Prevention in Africa.
Scheld has published more than 550 peer-reviewed scientific articles, review
articles, and book chapters, and co-edited 21 books.
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MR. JOHN R. SHEPHERD
Ph.D., Stanford University / J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Anthropology
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1992 ~ 2020
John Shepherd graduated from Stanford
University with a B.A. in Political Science.
He went on to earn an M.A. in East Asian
Studies at the university, and then entered its
Anthropology doctorate program. He received
his Ph.D. from Stanford, and then obtained his
J.D. from the University of California Berkeley
Law School. Shepherd worked as a lawyer in
New York City before returning to the academy
as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Ethnology
of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, an
organization which is the Chinese equivalent
of the National Academy of Sciences. The
Academia Sinica remained Shepherd’s
academic home away from home throughout
his career, even as he took positions at the
California Institute of Technology, the University
of Washington, and, in 1992, the University of
Virginia.
For many, Shepherd’s work defines state of the art historical anthropology in
Taiwan, and his reputation extends to mainland China as well. Much of his work
has been translated into Chinese, including his acclaimed 1993 book Statecraft
and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier. In his 2018 book Footbinding as
Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor and Status in Traditional China, Shepherd uses methods
of historical demography to refute earlier claims that the practice of footbinding
in China and Taiwan during the era of Japanese and European colonization was
necessarily structured by categories of ethnicity, class, and region.
Shepherd served as director of the University’s East Asia Institute, and is
remembered for his success in securing it Title VI funding, and for regularly
welcoming the Institute’s members to his home for collective celebrations. He also
collaborated and connected closely with scholars and students in the Religious
Studies Department.
John would bike to and from his office in Brooks Hall in all weathers, including rain,
sleet and snow. Across several University units, graduate students in particular
will remember John with appreciation and fondness for his prompt and detailed
responses to their writing, his kindness to them, and the relationships he has
maintained with them after graduation.
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MR . PETER L. SHERAS
Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1975 ~ 2020
Peter Sheras came to UVA in 1975 as an
assistant professor in the Curry School of
Education and Human Development’s Child
Clinical and School Psychology Program.
Having earned his B.A. at Yale University and
his Ph.D. at Princeton University, he completed
clinical training at Rutgers University and
an internship at Stanford University and the
Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto.
His then-girlfriend and future wife, Phyllis Koch
(Ph.D., University of Texas), was hired at the
UVA Counseling Center as a psychologist.
Sheras has served in the American
Psychological Association (APA) accredited
clinical and school psychology training program
as director of the Center for Clinical Psychology
Services training clinic for four years, as
director of Clinical Training for 17 years, and as chair of the Department of Human
Services for more than nine years. He trained over 100 doctoral students, as he
conducted research and published books, tests, and articles related to adolescent
development, adolescent parenting stress, school crisis response, youth
violence, political advocacy, and couple relationships. Active in the Charlottesville
community, Sheras was a member and chair of the Board of Region Ten and served
on many other boards including the Virginia Discovery Museum and the Mental
Health Association. He was a 1999 graduate of Leadership Charlottesville and
of the Sorensen Institute of Political leadership in 2001. He served as the Mental
Health Lead for the local Red Cross chapter for 10 years, and is currently on the
Virginia State Board of Psychology. He was president of the Virginia Psychological
Association (VPA), the Virginia Psychological Foundation and an elected member
of the APA Board of Directors. He received the VPA Lifetime Achievement Award,
in addition to the APA’s Cynthia Belar Award for Education Advocacy and Karl F.
Heiser Award for Practice Advocacy. Sheras also received an APA Presidential
Citation for his advocacy and professional leadership.
After retiring, Peter will spend some of his time working in local clinical practice, but
devote the majority of it to his amazing partner of 46 years, Phyllis. Together, they
plan frequent visits to their children and grandchildren in Durham, North Carolina
and Los Angeles, California.
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MR. GARY J. SHIFLET
Ph.D., Michigan Technological University
William G. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1980 ~ 2020
Gary Shiflet received his doctorate in
metallurgical engineering from Michigan
Technological University in 1981. That year,
he came to UVA as an assistant professor of
Materials Science and Engineering, and rose to
full professor in 1988. In 1994, he was elected
the endowed William G. Reynolds Professor of
Materials Science and Engineering.
Shiflet has made fundamental contributions in
the area of solid-state phase transformations
of metal alloys, first in steel alloys and later in
amorphous metals. His research focused on
the thermodynamics, nucleation, and kinetics
of growth associated with the formation of
new phases, and his findings have led to new
structural metals for applications in industry.
At UVA, he has produced nearly thirty Ph.D.
students who are pursuing their careers in academia, industry, and national
laboratories. His accolades include two National Science Foundation Grant
Creativity Awards, election as a fellow of the American Society for Metals (ASM),
an ASM Materials Science Division Research Award (Silver Medal), Scientific
American’s 50, and the Distinguished Faculty Award of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science. Shiflet was also inducted to the UVA Patent Office Inventor
Hall of Fame.
Shiflet served on the editorial boards of several key metallurgical journals, as
well as scientific programs and awards committees of the Minerals, Metals &
Materials Society. He is well known for his teaching, and especially so for the
Materials Science and Engineering course he created, “Materials that Shape Our
Civilization.” Of wide appeal, the course was frequently overfilled by curiosity-
piqued enrollees from the College of Arts & Sciences. He was so passionate about
his course, during his conference trips he would visit museums and libraries to
seek primary historical sources for use in his classes.
Not ready to leave his passion for good science behind, Gary will continue to
pursue the study of complex metallic alloys and other scientific endeavors for
years to come, in a laboratory he has built in his house.
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MS. NANCY TAKAHASHI
M.L.A., M.Arch., University of Virginia
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, General Faculty
School of Architecture 1985 ~ 2020
Nancy Takahashi is a Landscape Architect and
scholar working across a range of scales and
variety of projects. During her 35 years at the
School of Architecture, Takahashi has taught
courses focusing on foundation design skills,
site design, site technologies, and upper-level
research studios. She has taught the incoming
M.L.A. students in their first foundational studio
for 25 consecutive years. Takahashi is also an
alumnus: she obtained her Bachelor of Science
in Landscape Architecture, going on to obtain
a dual Master in Landscape Architecture and
Architecture. Upon graduation, she assumed
the role of Distinguished Lecturer in Landscape
Architecture.
Takahashi has served in nearly every capacity
in the Department of Landscape Architecture,
including a role as interim department chair and
most recently as Graduate Program Director.
Takahashi’s work to assemble the material history of Mount Jefferson was
published in Landscape Journal in 2017 and won a Virginia Society of Landscape
Architects award of Excellence in 2018. Her research is the basis for understanding
the disturbed landscapes surrounding the University and helps to educate our
students in their first foundation design studio where they develop analysis and
design proposals for Mount Jefferson (also referred to as Observatory Mountain or
O-Hill), the wooded rise marking the western edge of the UVA Grounds. In 2013,
she founded the Resilient Communities in Ghana project and has developed deep
connections with the community there through multiple methods of engagement.
This has culminated in several courses where students have traveled to Winneba,
Ghana to meet with community leaders and develop design proposals. In recent
years, community leaders from Ghana have also traveled to Charlottesville to
participate in design charrettes and studios. Other research projects include a
landscape assessment for the Battersea cultural site in Petersburg, Virginia and
an interpretation of the Japanese internment camps at Poston that were located in
Yuma County, Arizona.
Takahashi made these academic contributions while maintaining licensure as a
working professional landscape architect for the past 35 years.
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MS. CAROL ANN TOMLINSON
Ed.D, University of Virginia
William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1980 ~ 2019
Carol Tomlinson, the William Clay Parish,
Jr. Professor of Education, has been an
exceptional faculty member and department
chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations,
and Policy in the Curry School of Education
and Human Development. She received her
bachelor’s degree from the University of South
Carolina before obtaining her doctorate of
education from the University of Virginia. For
21 years, Tomlinson taught and worked with
preschool, middle, and high school students.
Selected as Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in
1974, Tomlinson was a true interdisciplinarian;
she taught history, German, and language arts
during her career in the classroom.
Tomlinson’s work in schools deeply influenced
her scholarship, and has made her writings
accessible to the world. An internationally renowned figure in the field of curriculum
design and the pre-eminent scholar of differentiated instruction, Tomlinson
recognizes the wide range of maturity, talents, and interests among students.
Her concept of differentiated instruction encourages teachers to acknowledge
differences among students and to teach them accordingly. Tomlinson encourages
teachers and schools to “teach up” for children in lower tracks, to provide
advanced curriculum for the entire class, and to scaffold for students who need
additional support to work with the advanced concepts and skills. Over the past
decades, Tomlinson’s work has reached global prominence, and her scholarship
is translated into 12 languages. Tomlinson has published more than 300 books,
articles, book chapters, and other educational materials, and is recognized as one
of the most influential educational scholars and thought leaders both in the United
States and across the globe.
In retirement, Tomlinson plans to continue writing, researching, and disseminating
her scholarship to the world. In a sense, she is not retiring at all, but will continue
her work of improving the education and schooling of countless children and
students.
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MS. PAMELA D. TUCKER
Ed.D., College of William and Mary
Professor of Education
Curry School of Education and Human Development 1997 ~ 2020
Pamela Tucker joined the Curry School of
Education and Human Development in 1997.
Earlier in her career, she served as a science
and special education teacher, and then as
an education director in K-12 schools before
completing her doctorate in Educational
Administration at the College of William and
Mary. As a faculty member in the Administration
& Supervision program, she specialized in
teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and
principal preparation.
At UVA, she served as faculty council chair
and for a decade as program coordinator of
Administration & Supervision. Tucker also held
the position of Senior Associate Director of the
University Council of Educational Administration,
a national professional organization in her field,
and was recognized with a national service award for this work. During this time,
she contributed to analyses of state and federal policy, the utilization of leadership
measures, and the development of standards for leadership preparation.
Tucker has mentored many school leaders through their master’s and doctoral
degrees, as well as through her work in Curry’s K-12 Advisory Council and its
leadership development programs. Her consistently exemplary teaching earned
Tucker an Outstanding Professor Award. Tucker engaged in both the Women
Education Leaders in Virginia and the Virginia Professors of Educational
Leadership organizations. As a result, educators from around the Commonwealth
know her as an advocate for the care and well-being of students.
In retirement, Pam and her husband look forward to travelling the country in their
new camper and visiting their three children and grandchildren. Avid hikers and
lovers of the outdoors, their journeys will certainly include many stops at National
Parks and exploration of their trails and sites.
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DR. KENNETH S. TUNG
M.B.B.S., University of Melbourne
Professor of Pathology
School of Medicine 1991 ~ 2019
Kenneth Tung was born in Hong Kong, and
received his M.B.B.S. from the University of
Melbourne in 1959. He underwent three years of
surgery training at the University of Melbourne
and the Cleveland Clinic before switching to
Pathology residency at the latter. Tung received
postdoctoral training in Immunology research
at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation,
and is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology.
Since 1970, Tung has pursued a career
in academic immunopathology, combining
diagnostic kidney pathology and basic research
in autoimmune disease mechanisms. Tung
progressed from the rank of assistant professor
to full professor in the pathology departments of
St. Louis University, University of New Mexico,
and Washington University, and has been at
UVA since 1991. He was a member of the Beirne Carter Center of Immunology
Research, and mentored more than 40 Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students, postdoctoral
fellows, and undergraduate students; many of Tung’s various students are
currently professors and department chairs. Tung also won teaching awards for
lectures that he delivered to medical students on kidney disease mechanism and
basic Immunology.
Tung’s research expertise pertains to the mechanism of autoimmune disease
induction and its prevention (tolerance). His team made seminal discoveries on
diseases of the testis and ovary responsible for human infertility, and received
several awards for their work. His research has received continuous support from
the National Institutes of Health through grants and contracts for over four decades.
They have published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals
and have contributed chapters for 63 textbooks and monographs. Tung was an
invited and keynote speaker for numerous national and international meetings. He
served as a permanent member in the NIH Study Section on Reproductive Biology,
as an ad hoc member in the NIH Study Sections in Immunological Sciences, and
as a member of a task force on the safety of immune-contraception for the World
Health Organization.
Kenneth became a US citizen in 1976 along with his wife Mimi Chow, an incredibly
accomplished pianist (Mills College, Julliard). Together, they have three daughters,
each of whom have two children of their own.
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DR. RONALD B. TURNER
M.D., Southern Illinois University
Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine 2001 ~ 2020
Ronald Turner completed his pediatric training at
UVA and subsequently specialized in Pediatric
Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Virology at
UVA and Ohio State University. He began his
faculty career at the University of Utah where
he was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
and Pathology and became the Director of the
Diagnostic Virology Laboratory for Associated
Regional and University Pathologists, Inc. He
subsequently moved to the Medical University
of South Carolina where he served for fourteen
years as the Head of the Division of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases. In 2001, Turner came to
UVA as Professor of Pediatrics in the Division
of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Turner also
served as Associate Dean for Clinical Research
in the School of Medicine from 2005-2015.
Turner has been an active clinician throughout his faculty teaching career. Turner’s
reputation for clinical excellence was acknowledged by selection to Best Doctors
in America from 1999 to 2018 and Castle Connelly Top Doctors from 2013 until he
retired from clinical care in 2018.
Turner’s research has focused on viral respiratory infection, especially rhinovirus
pathogenesis and treatment. These efforts have generally involved the use of
a human experimental rhinovirus challenge model to study various aspects of
pathogenesis and treatment in human volunteers. For many years, Turner held the
only Investigational New Drug applications (INDs) that allowed these studies to be
conducted in the Unites States. Early research efforts into rhinovirus pathogenesis
helped establish and popularize the concept that the symptoms associated with
rhinovirus infection were a result of the innate host response to the virus.The
availability of the challenge model has also provided an opportunity to collaborate
with investigators at UVA and elsewhere to study the role of psychosocial factors
in rhinovirus pathogenesis, early gene responses to infection, approaches to
rhinovirus-induced asthma exacerbation and the careful evaluation of adaptive
responses to rhinovirus infections.
Turner is an author or co-author of 150 original manuscripts, reviews and chapters,
primarily related to viral respiratory infections, and has served on numerous
advisory boards and review committees related to respiratory virus research both
in the US and internationally.
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MR. ALFRED C. WEAVER
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1977 ~ 2020
As an undergraduate at the University of
Tennessee, Alfred Weaver wrote his first
computer program in 1967, a time when
computer science was still in its infancy.
His dissertation was on the design and
implementation of one of the very first industrial
process controllers that used a microprocessor.
After teaching at Illinois for a year, Weaver
joined the UVA Department of Applied Math
and Computer Science in 1977, where he
developed UVA’s first hands-on microcomputer
laboratory course. When Computer Science
became its own department, Weaver served
as its first chair from 1984 to 1985. He also
served as founding director of the UVA Applied
Research Institute and as a department
representative to the UVA Faculty Senate from
2003 to 2019. He chaired the Senate from 2017 to 2018.
At UVA, Weaver’s research shifted to network protocols, and with his students and
collaborators, he developed the Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) for the United
States Navy to use in ships and airplanes. XTP was the required communications
protocol specified in Military Standard 2204, better known as SAFENET: Survivable
Adaptable Fiber Optic Embedded Network. In total, Professor Weaver formed five
companies to move university technologies like XTP into commercial use. At its
height, Reliacast, Inc. had 90 employees and operated out of Northern Virginia
before its sale to Comcast. Weaver published 16 books or book chapters, 32
refereed journal articles, and 150 refereed conference publications, was principal
investigator or co-principal investigator on 134 research grants and contracts
worth over $22 million, and served as a research advisor for 10 Ph.D., 29 M.S.,
and 36 M.C.S. graduates. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1996, for his contributions to the design of computer
communications protocols, and received several other awards recognizing his
research and service contributions. He served as president of the IEEE Industrial
Electronics Society from 1994 to 1995, played an active role in the management
of 52 conferences, and has served the computing community in many other ways.
Alf treasures his 43 years at UVA, and especially his close personal relationships
with other faculty and his students
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MS. GWENETH L. WEST
M.F.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Professor of Drama
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1990 ~ 2020
Gweneth West led the University’s Costume
Design and Technology program in the
Department of Drama for 20 years. She earned
her M.F.A. in Theatre Design and Costume
from the University of Texas at Austin, and later
began her professional teaching and designing
career at Wayne State University’s Bonstelle
Theatre in Detroit. West then joined the
faculty at the University of Florida as Head of
Costume Design and Production, teaching both
costume design and directing. West is tirelessly
dedicated to the education and training of young
theatre artists and her design students attend
graduate programs, teach in universities, and
work in theatres from New York to Chicago and
Los Angeles.
West has served as a costume designer for
over 250 theatrical productions, and her work
has been seen at the Abingdon Theater Company and Lamb’s Theatre in New
York City, the Texas Shakespeare Festival, and the Chattanooga Performing
Arts Series, among many other venues. From 1986 to 2004, she designed more
than 90 productions for the Heritage Theatre Festival at UVA, and her 2004
designs for Ragtime won exhibition at the juried World Stage Design Exhibition
in Toronto. Several of her designs earned recognition from the Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival, for which she served as National Chair of
Design Technology and Management, receiving its Gold Medallion for Excellence
in Artistry, Achievement, Dedication, and Service in 2010. In addition to teaching
courses in design, history of dress, character, portfolio, graphics, collaboration,
and creative process, she served as curator of the Collection of Historic Dress,
a vast and unique resource housed in the Drama Department for students and
scholars interested in design history.
West also made exceptional contributions to faculty governance, serving on
numerous pan-University committees, task forces, and institutes. Elected to the
UVA Faculty Senate in 2006, she served from 2010 to 2013 as chair-elect, chair,
and immediate past chair, providing visionary leadership through a critical period
in the University’s history. For many years, West led the University’s academic
processions as grand marshal, bearing the official silver and ebony mace.
As an artist, teacher, administrator, and leader, Gweneth has left an indelible mark
on the world of theatre at UVA, in Charlottesville, and across the country.
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DR. MARK R. WICK
Ph.D., Mayo Medical School / M.D., University of Wisconsin
Professor of Pathology
School of Medicine 1999 ~ 2019
Mark Wick is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He received his M.D. at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1978, and later trained
in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Mayo
Clinic from 1978 to 1983. Beginning as Assistant
Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology at
the University of Minnesota School of Medicine
in 1983, he gained promotion to associate
professor in 1987. In 1989 Wick began a
decade of service as Professor of Pathology at
Washington University in St. Louis. He arrived
at UVA in 1999, where he was a Professor of
Pathology for two decades, spending time
near the end of his career as a Professor of
Dermatology. His research interests include
protein chemistry, immunohistology of human
neoplasms, and clinical outcomes analysis.
From 1988 to 1990 Wick served as Associate
Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, and was the publication’s
Editor-in-Chief from 1990 to 2012. Wick then worked as Editor-in-Chief of Seminars
in Diagnostic Pathology from 2013 to 2020.
Wick served as both the President of the Association of Directors of Anatomic and
Surgical Pathology from 2008 to 2010, and the History of Pathology Society from
2011 to 2012.
In 1999, Wick won the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s G.F. Stevenson
Distinguished Service Award, and would later receive both the organization’s
Master’s Award in 2008 and its President’s Award in 2012.
In addition to his numerous journal articles, Wick published several books,
including Diagnostic Histochemistry and Metastatic Carcinomas of Unknown
Origin (MCUOs), the first comprehensive, fully illustrated discussion of the clinical
features, pathologic attributes, and treatment approaches of MCUOs.
Mark is married to Jane Wick, and they have three children—Robert, Morgan, and
Kellyn.
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MR. STEPHEN G. WILSON
Ph.D., University of Washington
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science 1976 ~ 2020
Steven G. Wilson joined UVA’s Charles L.
Brown Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering as an assistant professor in 1976,
and received a promotion to full professor in
1986. He holds three degrees in electrical
engineering, earning his B.S. from Iowa State
University, his M.S. from the University of
Michigan, and his Ph.D. from the University of
Washington. During his career at UVA, Wilson
earned the Alumni Association Outstanding
Young Professor Award, the Alumni Association
Distinguished Professor Award, the Outstanding
Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of
Higher Education, the AT&T Foundation Award
for Outstanding Engineering Educator, and the
Morton Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching.
Wilson’s Ph.D. students have excelled in both
industry and academia. In recognition of his teaching legacy, longtime supporters
Dudley (Engineering ’76, ’77) and Barbara (Engineering ’81) White recently
endowed a chaired position in Wilson’s name. Generations of students have
expressed deep appreciation for his teaching, mentorship and earnest interest in
their success. Word of his retirement prompted many of his students to contribute
to an endowed graduate student fellowship in his honor. Wilson authored the well-
known textbook Digital Modulation and Coding, which remains in use at many
universities across the United States and around the world. A respected researcher
of digital communications, Wilson authored more than 150 refereed publications in
journals and conferences. His deeply positive influence on the study of engineering
at UVA is plainly evident, and his lasting impact will continue to benefit all those
who pursue the field at the University for years to come.
Steven’s contributions extend to the Charlottesville community, including a long
record of volunteer service with Habitat for Humanity. He also loves cycling, hiking
and gardening. He and his wife, Lynanne Williams, look forward to traveling and
spending more time with their children and grandchildren.
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