Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Richard Cardullo as Howard H. Hays Chair and Director of University Honors. Richard Cardullo is a Professor of Biology and a UCR Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He received his B.S in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1985. Prior to his arrival as an Assistant Professor of Biology at UCR in 1991, he was an NIH National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Senior Research Associate at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. He was an academic faculty member at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole from 1990 : 2010. His research has focused on the molecular, cellular, and physical determinants of fertilization in a variety of animal systems. He has also conducted research on how people learn especially in K-12 and undergraduate environments. His research has been published in both scientific and educational journals including Biochemistry, Biology of Reproduction, Developmental Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Educational Psychology, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science. As a member of the University Honors Faculty Committee he has contributed to a number of classes in UCR Honors including ignition seminars on the nature of creativity and discovery, lectures on epistemology, as well as classes on the nature of research. In 1999 he was awarded the UCR Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2007 was appointed to the UCR Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Dr. Cardullo has held a number of leadership positions both on and off campus. He was the graduate advisor for both recruitment and continuing students in the department of Biology, served as the department chair for Biology from 2004-2009 and was the divisional dean of life sciences in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) from 2010-2012. He has been especially supportive of student success programs on campus and has been the project director for three graduate training grants and is currently the faculty director for the UCR California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) and the CNAS faculty director for the STEM Pathway programs. At a national level, Professor Cardullo has been actively engaged in efforts to transform how faculty teach and students learn. In 2006 he was recognized as a National Academy of Sciences Life Science Leadership Fellow and in 2012 he was selected as one of 40 educators nationally as an HHMI/NIH/NSF Vision and Change fellow. He currently serves as the chair of the board of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study in Colorado Springs, a nonprofit organization that researches the teaching and learning of science, and is the president of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Please join me in welcoming Rich to his new position as Hays Chair and Director of University Honors. He has exciting plans for the further development of University Honors.

If you are interested in becoming involved in the University Honors Program, please be in touch with Rich or with me.

Steven Brint

Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education

Director, Colleges & Universities 2000 Study

Professor, Department of Sociology & School of Public Policy

University of California at Riverside
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