Nichols Receives Teaching Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ruthann Nichols, recipient of the 2011-2011 Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award in Biological Chemistry. This award recognizes Dr. Nichols’ long and distinguished career as an educator and mentor, especially her outstanding teaching in Biol Chem 212 and her dedication to undergraduate mentoring in the laboratory.

Paul Weinhold Retires

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Weinhold, who earlier this month gave his final lecture in the UM medical student pre-clinical curriculum following a career spanning six decades. Dr. Roger Grekin, Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development in the Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System was there to mark the occasion. Dr. Grekin writes, “Paul Weinhold joined the Biological Chemistry faculty in 1965 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. He established a highly successful laboratory at the VA Medical Center and became an internationally recognized expert in the area of phospholipid metabolism. He maintained funding from both the NIH and the VA throughout his investigative career. Paul has made major contributions to medical student teaching. He served as a laboratory instructor and then as a lecturer in the medical student Biochemistry course, and he directed the course from 1991 to 1992. When the curriculum was revised in 1992, he became the director of the Cells and Tissues sequence and served in that role for 20 years. He has given the metabolism lectures for over 30 years, and has been an important contributor to medical student education for 47 years. He won the Kaiser award, the Medical School’s highest award for excellence in teaching, in 1994.” Congratulations, Paul!