Douglas Wright, PhD receives Kemper Award

Sep 18, 2009

The William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence was awarded to Douglas Wright, PhD on September 14, 2009.

Dr. Wright is an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and did postdoctoral work at Washington University in St. Louis before joining the KUMC faculty in 1997. In addition to maintaining a well-funded neuroscience laboratory, he serves as the director of Graduate Studies for his department and has advised numerous undergraduate, graduate, medical and MD/PhD students. He is active in the curriculum for second-year medical students as well as neuroscience graduate courses and serves on the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS) Advisory Board for first-year School of Medicine graduate students. Dr. Wright is a previous recipient of a Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award, a Student Voice Teaching Award and a Bohan Teaching Professorship Award.

See the KU School of Medicine web site for more information about the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.

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