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Mortar Board honors five outstanding educators

Mortar Board has chosen five faculty members to receive Outstanding Educator Awards. The recipients will be announced at the Nov. 28 men's basketball game against Florida Atlantic University in Allen Fieldhouse. An Outstanding Educator ceremony and reception will be held at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.

This year's Mortar Board Outstanding Educators are: Paul Hanson, professor of chemistry; Mary Klayder, University Honors Lecturer in English; Scott Murphy, associate professor of music and dance; Ingrid Peterson, director of Kansas Algebra Program in the Department of Mathematics; and Amy Rossomondo, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Mortar Board members nominate educators for their devotion to academia, teaching style, accessibility, knowledge of their subject and other special qualities identified by the KU chapter. Mortar Board's 39 members selected the winners.

Mortar Board membership is based on distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service. Students must have a 3.0 grade-point average and hold senior status during some or all of the academic year.

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Lisa Timmons, assistant professor of biology, is looking to roundworms for tips on how cancer develops in humans. She uses a process called RNA interference because worms and humans share genes called A-B-C transporters that carry toxins to cells. For more information and to listen, visit www.researchmatters.ku.edu.