Inaugural Holland lecture Monday at Whittenberger AuditoriumBy Susan Williams | ||
 1997 file photo by Chris Meyer Jim Holland, an IUB professor of biology, received numerous teaching awards during the course of his career and was instrumental in efforts to address the needs of minority students. His memory will be honored with the inaugural lectur e of the James P. Holland Memorial Lecture Series Monday (Oct.16). Holland (above right), who died in 1998, is shown in a research lab with a student in 1997.
| The late Jim Holland, professor of biology at Indiana University Bloom
ington, died of cancer in 1998, but not before establishing himself as a giant among men and women.
He will be honored with the inaugural lecture of the James P. Holland Memorial Lecture Series Monday (Oct. 16) at 4 p.m. in Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington. Homer A. Neal, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of physics and director of the ATLAS Program at the University of Michigan, will present the lecture, “Science in the New Millennium,” which also will be audio streamed and accessible at the Web site listed at the end of this story. Neal, who received a bachelor’s degree in physics with honors in 1961 from IU, and master’s and doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Michigan, specializes in experimental high-energy physics research. Also at the lecture, establishment of the James P. Holland Graduate Fellowship will be announced. The fellowship will support the training of a first-year doctoral student at IU from population groups under-represented in the life sciences. It will includ e a stipend, tuition and health insurance during the first year of study. Holland earned two IU degrees in endocrinology, a master’s in 1958 and a doctorate in 1961. After postdoctoral studies and teaching at Howard University, he returned to IU in 1967 as an associate professor in biology. During the next 30 years, he recruited, mentored and taught the students he loved—more than 11,000 IU undergraduates took courses from him. He was instrumental in efforts to address the needs of minority students on campus and was faculty adviser for the Ernest Just Organization in Biology, an undergraduate club at IU named in honor of the first African American to receive a doctorate in both physiology and zoology. Holland served as associate dean and interim dean of Research and the University Graduate School, and was awarded numerous “distinguished” and “outstanding” faculty and teaching awards, including the George W. Pinnell Award for Distinguished Service in 19 94 and the inaugural Chancellor’s Medallion in 1997. Neal’s lecture will be archived as an audio stream at this Web site: http://broadcast.iu.edu/ | |
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