1997 Eddy Award Winners Announced; Eddy Lecture Set For Sept. 25
Wednesday, September 17, 1997
FORT COLLINS--A Colorado State University chemistry
professor, a senior majoring in natural resources management, and
a lecturer and author from the University of Chicago Law School
have won the Willard O. Eddy Awards this year.
The Eddy Awards are given annually to honor the memory of
Willard Eddy, who helped establish the Honors Program and was
instrumental in promoting liberal education at Colorado State
during his 56-year tenure.
The Eddy Lecture this year, presented by Martha Nussbaum,
will be Sept. 25 at
7:30 p.m. in the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center on
campus. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the
University of Chicago Law School, will speak on "Women and
Cultural Universals." The event is free and open to the public.
Nussbaum is author of "Poetic Justice," "The Therapy of
Desire," "Love's Knowledge" and "The Fragility of Goodness."
Professor Steven Strauss, the Eddy Teacher Award winner, has
been teaching chemistry at Colorado State since 1981. Students
describe him as having excellent classroom skills as well as a
helpful, caring manner outside the classroom. One student said,
"Everything he does seems to be for the purpose of either
bettering his knowledge or bettering someone else's life."
Strauss was named University Honors Professor for 1993-94
and received the College of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence
in Teaching in 1983. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated
excellence in undergraduate advising as well as interest in
curricular issues related to the role of science and research in
the liberal arts.
The Eddy Scholar Award will be presented to Andrew Bean, a
senior in natural resources management in the College of Natural
Resources. Bean, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., is active in the
university's Honors Program and was accepted into the President's
Leadership Program and Mortar Board at Colorado State, where he
carries a 3.9 grade-point average.
Willard Eddy served as chairman of two departments, helped
create the Honors Program and developed the university's first
classes in philosophy, logic, ethics and more than 20 other
courses still offered in the College of Liberal Arts. Eddy began
his career at Colorado State in 1936 and, though retiring in
1974, continued teaching part-time until his death in 1993.
Each year, events commemorating Eddy's contributions to
Colorado State culminate with the Eddy Lecture.
"Willard Eddy played an important role in founding liberal
arts education at Colorado State," said Loren Crabtree, dean of
the College of Liberal Arts. "His contributions are reflected to
this day in the strong educational programs that prepare students
for truly productive and satisfying lives."
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