Prof Yancy Shirley is 2016 Recipient of UA's Blitzer Award
Associate Professor Yancy Shirley has been selected the 2016 recipient of the “Professor Leon and Pauline Blitzer Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences."
The Blitzer award is made possible through an endowment set up by the children and friends of Leon and Pauline Blitzer, and is given each year to a faculty member in one of the following departments: Atmospheric Sciences, Astronomy, Planetary Sciences, and Physics.
Professor Leon Blitzer began his nearly 70 year association with the University of Arizona in 1936 as a Physics undergraduate student. After receiving his PhD from CalTech in 1943, he returned to the UA in 1946 as an Assistant Professor of Physics. He officially retired in 1986, but continued his active association with the University.
Professor Blitzer was devoted to teaching, advising, and mentoring. The Blitzer award recognizes the recipient’s devotion to these aspects of being a professor, in addition to sustaining an active research career. Yancy, a skilled advisor both within the Department, but also through Space Grant and the Honors College, has successfully introduced many undergraduates (and graduate students) to astronomical research.
Yancy will give the 2016 Blitzer Lecture on March 2nd (location details and time to be provided).
Congratulations, Yancy!
Buell Jannuzi, Chairman
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