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First Two Ramsey Award Winners Announced
Posted 5/4/2005
The first two adjunct faculty members have been selected to receive the new Gordon Clark Ramsey Award for Creative Excellence. They are Janell Carroll of the Department of Psychology, and Richard Kolk of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Carroll, who received the Ramsey Award for sustained creativity, has taught a variety of courses including Human Sexual Behavior, Psychology of Gender, and Psychology of Parenting. She is particularly concerned about the gap she sees between college textbooks and the students they aim to reach. Authors of the textbooks present material they want students to know, without consideration for the questions those students may have.
Carroll’s book Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity had a successful first-edition launch in 2004. The publisher, Wadsworth, has requested an early revision with the second edition to be published in January of 2006.
Kolk’s award was for combining research into classroom teaching. A senior staff engineer in controls and simulation at United Technologies’ Carrier Corporation, Kolk has taught at the university for 21 years. His courses are in the areas of control systems and electrical engineering circuits. He is co-author with Associate Dean Devdas Shetty, professor of mechanical engineering and the Vernon D. Roosa Professor in Manufacturing Engineering, of the textbook, Mechatronics System Design, PWS Publishing.
Shetty, who is also director of the university’s Engineering Applications Center, says that Kolk “regularly transfers the innovative techniques that he develops at United Technologies to the classroom.”
The awards were created when Gordon Clark Ramsey retired last fall, following his 18 years of service as secretary to the Faculty Senate. Ramsey, who continues to serve the university on a part-time basis as executive secretary of the Emeriti Association, has always been a strong advocate of efforts to enhance the status of, and provide opportunities for, adjunct faculty.
The Ramsey Award Committee announced that a recent anonymous $250 contribution brings the total in gifts and pledges to more than $12,000. The goal is to reach $20,000 so that the two awards will be annually self-funding.
Carroll, who received the Ramsey Award for sustained creativity, has taught a variety of courses including Human Sexual Behavior, Psychology of Gender, and Psychology of Parenting. She is particularly concerned about the gap she sees between college textbooks and the students they aim to reach. Authors of the textbooks present material they want students to know, without consideration for the questions those students may have.
Carroll’s book Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity had a successful first-edition launch in 2004. The publisher, Wadsworth, has requested an early revision with the second edition to be published in January of 2006.
Kolk’s award was for combining research into classroom teaching. A senior staff engineer in controls and simulation at United Technologies’ Carrier Corporation, Kolk has taught at the university for 21 years. His courses are in the areas of control systems and electrical engineering circuits. He is co-author with Associate Dean Devdas Shetty, professor of mechanical engineering and the Vernon D. Roosa Professor in Manufacturing Engineering, of the textbook, Mechatronics System Design, PWS Publishing.
Shetty, who is also director of the university’s Engineering Applications Center, says that Kolk “regularly transfers the innovative techniques that he develops at United Technologies to the classroom.”
The awards were created when Gordon Clark Ramsey retired last fall, following his 18 years of service as secretary to the Faculty Senate. Ramsey, who continues to serve the university on a part-time basis as executive secretary of the Emeriti Association, has always been a strong advocate of efforts to enhance the status of, and provide opportunities for, adjunct faculty.
The Ramsey Award Committee announced that a recent anonymous $250 contribution brings the total in gifts and pledges to more than $12,000. The goal is to reach $20,000 so that the two awards will be annually self-funding.
