June 10, 2003
Honors for Alters, Ayala, and Ruse
Brian J. Alters, the director of the Evolution Education Research Centre at McGill University, received the Faculty of Education Award for Distinguished Teaching from McGill University at its spring convocation on June 3.
Francisco Ayala, the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine, was named a University Professor by the Regents of the University of California, a rank that only 33 other faculty members in the University of California system have ever attained.
Michael Ruse, the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at the Florida State University, received an honorary D.Litt. degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, at its convocation on June 3.
Congratulations to all three.