Department of Physics and Materials Science

Honors and Awards

• Memphis State University, Distinguished Teaching Award, 1980.

• Tennessee Academy of Science, Fellow, 1983

• Tennessee Academy of Science, Distinguished Service Award, 1985.

• Memphis State University, Honors Teacher of the Year, 1991.

• West Tennessee Science Teachers, Science Olympics Outstanding Service Award, 1993.

• Memphis Organization of Science Teachers, Dedicated Service Award, 1995.

• Named "Outstanding Tennessean" by Tennessee Governor Donald Sundquist, 1997.

• Tennessee Science Teachers Association, Tennessee Science Educator of the Year for 1998-99 (Higher Education Division), 1998.

• Elected to Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, March, 2000

• City of Memphis School System Vision Award, 1999-2000.

• Thomas W. Briggs Foundation, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, May, 2001.

• The College of Arts of Sciences W. Russell Smith Award, Excellence in Teaching, 2003.

• The Southeastern Section of The American Physical Society George B. Pegram Award, For Contributions to the Teaching of Physics, 2007.

• The University of Memphis, Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008.