April 11, 2003
Contact: Sarah Ray
802-443-5794
sray@middlebury.edu
Posted: April 11, 2003 MIDDLEBURY,
Vt.—Middlebury College has named Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea
Lloyd the recipient of the 2003 Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The award honors outstanding teaching performance in science and mathematics.
At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, an award ceremony will be held in Room
219 of Bicentennial Hall on Bicentennial Way off College Street (Route 125).
The annual award is given to a member of Middlebury College’s natural
sciences division, alternating each year between a faculty member in the
mathematics and computer science department and a faculty member in one
of the other four departments in this division—biology, chemistry,
geology and physics.
Lloyd earned a bachelor’s degree in geography from Dartmouth College
in 1989 and a master’s degree in biology and wildlife from the University
of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1993. Three years later she received her doctorate
in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona. A
member of the Middlebury College faculty since 1996, Lloyd teaches several
courses, including “Introductory Ecology” and “Plant
DZDz.”
Her current research focuses on the response of the Alaskan boreal forest
to climate change. Lloyd’s findings have appeared in a number of
publications, including the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres,
Climatic Change and the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. The winner
of several awards, she has also received grants from such organizations
as the National Science Foundation.
The Professor Llewellyn R. Perkins and Dr. Ruth M.H. Perkins Memorial
Faculty Research Fund, which provides the award, was made possible by
the gift of Dr. Ruth M.H. Perkins, a 1932 Middlebury graduate, in memory
of her husband, Professor Llewellyn R. Perkins. Professor Perkins taught
at Middlebury College from 1914 until his retirement in 1941. During the
course of his tenure at Middlebury, he founded and chaired the mathematics
department. Their children, Marion Perkins Harris, a 1957 Middlebury graduate
and science teacher, and Dr. David L. Perkins, a physician, augmented
the fund and expanded the scope of the award to honor their mother, Ruth,
as well. She was a Vermont State helping teacher and a professor of math
education at Temple University in Philadelphia.