Professor Spalding honored with ISU Award for Departmental Leadership

Martin Spalding

GDCB Professor and LAS Dean Martin Spalding

September 2011

GDCB is honored to recognize Dr. Martin Spalding, Professor of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology and Associate Dean of LAS, for his ISU Award for Departmental Leadership that he received last spring. Dr. Spalding received the award just prior to stepping down as GDCB chair on July 1, 2011 to take on his new role as Associate Dean in LAS. He had served as GDCB Department Chair since its formation in July 2003 as part of the overall reorganization of the biological sciences at ISU. He, along with several other faculty, played an integral role in the successful reorganization of several departments into what we now know as GDCB and EEOB.

The ISU Award for Departmental Leadership recognizes a department chair who has demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities in advancing the faculty, staff, students, and programs in his/her department. Those who receive the Leadership award have demonstrated leadership in advancing programs and initiatives central to the department; creating a department climate in which students, faculty, and staff can do their best work; have shown a record of helping to advance the careers of faculty and staff; and have had campus-wide impact.