This morning Grace Muna was presented with this year's campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award along with cowinner David Blouin from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She is pictured above with her plaque with Dean McMillen of the College of Arts and Sciences. Muna regularly teaches our second-semester general chemistry lecture, both general chemistry labs, and the upper-level analytical chemistry and instrumental analysis lecture/lab combination courses. Students appreciate Muna's sincere concern for them that has motivated many students to rise up from a poor start. Muna also insists on hand-graded homework which many students claim has helped them more so than online homework systems. In addition to her teaching role, Muna regularly involves students in her research projects and serves as the director for our campus's LSAMP program which provides funding from the National Science Foundation to minority students for summer research positions on campus mentored by our faculty. The last chemist who won this award was Gretchen Anderson in 1996. Congratulations, Dr. Muna!
