果冻传煤 Receives $1.5 M for Science
The T.B. Walker Foundation, an anonymous donor and others have committed $1.5 million to Westmont toward the creation of the college鈥檚 first endowed chair in the natural and behavioral sciences. The T.B. Walker Foundation Chair in the Natural & Behavioral Sciences will honor the work of an outstanding faculty member in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering/physics, mathematics or psychology.
The chair will be awarded to a current 果冻传煤 professor every three to five years. This is the second rotating chair established at 果冻传煤 in the past year. In June, Rick Pointer, 果冻传煤 professor of history, was selected as the first recipient of the newly established Fletcher Jones Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Science.
The Walker chair includes a reduced teaching load (one less class each year) so the professor can focus on research.
鈥淣ot only does the new chair bring prestige to its holder and the institution, but the research opportunities will enhance students鈥 education as well,鈥 says Warren Rogers, interim academic dean.
A professor will be named to the chair once all of the funding has been received.