Members of the UCA community are invited to attend the Inaugural Burgess Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 18 in the auditorium of Doyne Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Mary Lidstrom from the University of Washington will give a lecture titled “Research and Education at the Biology/Technology Boundary: the Microscale Life Sciences Center at the University of Washington.”Lidstrom is a microbiologist by training, but currently holds additional appointments in engineering and in chemistry. She received the Distinguished Teaching Award while at the California Institute of Technology, and she is the 2006 recipient of the Graduate Teaching Award given by the American Society of Microbiology. In the past few years she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she is one of a small group of individuals, renowned both as researchers and for innovativeness in science education, that have been recognized as Howard Hughes Medical Institute ‘Professors.’
This special event is being sponsored by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics using funds from the T.J. Burgess Endowment.
Burgess taught and advised students at UCA over 35 years, particularly those seeking careers in the medical sciences. He spent much of his career as a faculty member in biology, a department he chaired from 1973-76. Later he became director of the School of Health Sciences, and in his final year he served as acting dean of what became the College of Health and Applied Sciences.