Rosalyn Pelles spoke to about 150 UND students, faculty, staff and members of the community at Monday’s brunch event, about her long experience as an activist and how she remembers Martin Luther King Jr.
By Pat Sweeney
Sociology professor Daphne Pedersen is the latest to receive UND’s highest academic honor.
Pedersen has been named a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor.
She joined the UND faculty in 2004,
Biology professor Vasyl Tkach (vuh-SEEL tuh-CATCH) was similiarly honored last week.
The criteria for selection include “demonstrated achievement across research, teaching, and service,” with “significant national or regional recognition in any one of these missions”… “significant professional contributions” throughout the nominee’s career… and recognition by UND colleagues “as a faculty member who has made a valuable contribution to the quality of UND’s academic programs.”
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