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KU seniors name HOPE award winners

For the second time in its 48-year history, the HOPE Award—Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator—was presented to two KU faculty members in the same year.

Craig Martin, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Edward McBride, lecturer in civil, environmental and architectural engineering, each received a 2007 HOPE Award at the Nov. 17 football game against Iowa State University.

It is the second HOPE Award for Martin, who also won in 2002. McBride is the second in his family to receive the HOPE Award. His father, the late Edward Sr., e'66, PhD'73, also an engineering professor, was the 1974 winner.

Martin was named a Chancellors Club Teaching Professor in 2006. Since joining KU in 1980, he has received a 1996 Kemper Fellowship, a 1997 H. Bernard Fink Teaching Award and a 2000 J. Michael Young Academic Adviser Award.

McBride was a HOPE Award finalist in 2005 and 2006. McBride joined KU's engineering faculty in 2003.

Established by the Class of 1959, the award is the only honor given exclusively by KU students for teaching excellence. Only once before have students bestowed more than one award in the same year. In 1972, three professors tied and each received a HOPE Award: the late John Bremner in journalism, Arno Knapper in business and Elizabeth Schultz in English.

Winners receive recognition on a permanent plaque displayed in the Kansas Union. For the first time this year, the Board of Class Officers presented each finalist with a monetary award.

The 2007 finalists were:

• Kerry Benson, lecturer in journalism, began teaching at KU in 1999 as the Lacy C. Haynes professional-in-residence. She was a HOPE Award finalist in 2002, 2005 and 2006.

• David Holmes is a Chancellors Club Teaching professor in psychology, and a 1999 Kemper Fellowship winner. Since joining the KU faculty in 1971, Holmes has received a number of awards recognizing his teaching skill, including American Psychological Foundation Awards for distinguished teaching in psychology in 1988 and 1991 and a 1972 Standard Oil (Indiana) award for effectiveness in teaching.

• Mary Klayder, University Honors Lecturer in English, has been named an Outstanding Educator five times by Mortar Board honor society and was a HOPE Award finalist in 2004 and 2006.