This is an archived UW-P news item,
originally posted: 5/13/2008.
Three UW-Parkside faculty receive career awards
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside recently joined with its alumni in health care-related fields to honor three long-time faculty members. During a special May program on campus, retired faculty member Dr. Anna Maria Williams and current faculty Dr. Edward Wallen and Randall McKee received Lifetime Achievement Awards for their roles in building and maintaining the pre-health program in the university's Biological Sciences Dept.
Dr. Williams is a founding member of the UW-Parkside faculty, having been recruited from the UW-Madison Dept. of Medicine in 1968. She helped turn a fledgling program into a point of pride for UW-Parkside and assisted more than 300 of her students to gain acceptance to post-graduate professional programs. Dr. Williams remains active at the campus. She played an integral role in developing the Doctors of Our Community program, encouraging students of color in area high schools to pursue medical careers. She continues to help with the program each summer.The university's nature trail bears her name and contains every forest tree native to Wisconsin.
Dr. Wallen recently completed his 34th year as a UW-Parkside faculty member. He played a key role in building Biological Sciences and the pre-health program serving as department chair for a dozen years and helped hire nearly every current Biological Sciences faculty member. He also is an active and avid researcher, an interest he has shared with thousands of pre-health students.
Randall McKee also recently completed his 34th year at UW-Parkside. In helping talented students pursue their dreams of medical careers, McKee's courses in anatomy and physiology and functional human anatomy offer students vital hands-on experience. He also played a key role in creating UW-Parkside's new anatomy laboratories. The labs feature improved lighting and ventilation, autopsy dissection tables, x-ray viewers, and computer access as well as a new female cadaver, the university's second.
Prior to the award ceremony, UW-Parkside pre-health advisorDr. Bryan Lewis told attendees UW-Parkside's pre-health program now serves 500 students and has an 86 percent success rate for placing students in their first choice of professional post-graduate programs. He added that with very little fanfare or advertising, the university's new Applied Health Sciences program attracted more than 50 majors in its first year.
The pre-health alumni in attendance are now doctors, dentists, podiatrists, and professionals in other health care fields. They were welcomed back to campus by current UW-Parkside pre-health students who hope to emulate their success. The students also led tours of the university's new anatomy labs.
For more
information on the UW-Parkside pre-health program, call 262-595-2327.
Publish date: 5/13/2008
