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Serge Rudaz named founding director of new University Honors Program
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 1/5/2007 ) -- University of Minnesota Provost Thomas Sullivan announced today that Serge Rudaz has been named as the founding director of the new, campus-wide University Honors Program. Rudaz begins work immediately to prepare for the arrival of the first class of undergraduate students in fall 2008. As founding director, Rudaz will work with colleges to integrate current college-based honors programs into a single, more visible, campus-wide program. The new honors program is designed to attract the very best students and strengthen and expand the honors opportunities for all undergraduates on the Twin Cities campus as the university works towards its mission to become one of the top three public research universities in the world. "Professor Rudaz will provide the dynamic academic and administrative leadership necessary to create a new and exciting honors program," Sullivan said. "I look forward to working with him." Rudaz, a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and director of undergraduate studies for the department, earned his doctorate in physics in 1979 from Cornell University. Most recently he received the George W. Taylor Institute of Technology Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2006. A member of the physics department for over 20 years, Rudaz developed and taught the freshman and sophomore physics sequence in the Institute of Technology's Honors Program. He is the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at the School of Physics and Astronomy, which brings undergraduate students from all over the nation to conduct physics research at the university. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995. The new University Honors Program was recommended by a faculty and student task force that was appointed as part of the university's strategic positioning initiative. The program will strengthen curricular and co-curricular honors opportunities and will expand the number of honors freshman seminars, honors sections of global seminars and honors sections of regular courses. One-on-one faculty interactions will be a hallmark of the program. The initiative seeks to help the university recruit a larger and more diverse pool of accomplished and talented students across the state and throughout the nation. "The new program will make honors at the University of Minnesota the destination of choice for the outstanding students we seek to attract," Sullivan said. ---------- |
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