Excellence in Academic Outreach (2009)

In a room packed with chemists ranging from brand-new undergraduates to seasoned retirees, Ashley Wallace, assistant director of the University of Pennsylvania's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, took the floor to open the Winifred Burks-Houck Luncheon. "Let's keep pushing the boundaries in STEM!" she said. "The marathon must continue." Minutes later, Jonathan Ashby, a chemistry professor at Mount Holyoke College and chair of the 2019 meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), counseled students: "Be brave. Talk to each other. Network." Murrell Godfrey, director of the University of Mississippi Forensic Chemistry Program and NOBCChE's president, followed up with, "Do not be afraid to talk to us if there's anything we can do. We're family." Thus began the 46th annual NOBCChE—pronounced "no-buh-shay"—meeting, held Nov. 18–21 in Saint Louis. The setting—a hotel in what was formerly one of the busiest

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Excellence in a Professional School

Improving College and University Teaching (1966)

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