{"id":14054,"date":"2015-09-02T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14054"},"modified":"2015-09-02T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:00:39","slug":"professors-recognized-for-teaching-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/professors-recognized-for-teaching-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors recognized for teaching, research"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Provost<\/a>

Provost Jones with Professor Jack G. Wolf<\/p><\/div>
\nEach year the Alumni Association sponsors two faculty awards: the Alumni Master Teacher and the Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research. This year\u2019s awards went to Associate Professor of Finance Jack G. Wolf as Alumni Master Teacher and chemistry professor Joseph Kolis for research.
\nThe Alumni Master Teacher Award for outstanding undergraduate classroom instruction is presented to the faculty member nominated by the student body and selected by the Student Alumni Council (SAC).
\n\u201cDr. Wolf was chosen because he genuinely cares about his students achieving excellence in and out of the classroom,\u201d said Sterling Lecy, vice president of Clemson Blue Key Honor Society and past president of SAC. \u201cHe consistently goes the extra mile to make sure Clemson\u2019s business program is producing top candidates for post-graduate opportunities and devotes his own time to understanding the intersection between theory and practice that is so often overlooked.\u201d
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\"Environmental<\/a>

Joseph Kolis<\/p><\/div>
\nThe\u00a0Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research\u00a0is presented each May at the spring faculty meeting. Wil Brasington, senior director of alumni relations, presented the award to Kolis, a professor of inorganic chemistry. Kolis\u2019 group studies the synthesis and chemistry of novel inorganic compounds with unusual structures and properties. The group is particularly interested in chemistry under very unusual reaction conditions, such as with very high temperatures and pressures, or in exotic solvents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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