What makes a professor stand out? Ask Chuck …

Sociology lecturer Chuck O’Connell was recently selected as the graduating senior class’s Outstanding Professor in the social sciences. This marks the ninth year O’Connell has been named Outstanding Professor, quite an accomplishment for a lecturer who has only been with the university for 12 years. Other honorees include Catherine M. Famiglietti, mathematics lecturer; Jennifer J. Fisher, dance assistant professor; Michael Franz, computer science associate professor; Michael McCarthy, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor; Lauren M. Steimer, film and media studies lecturer; Cameron J. Talley, criminology, law and society lecturer; and Arthur Weis, ecology and evolutionary biology professor.