MUNCIE, Ind. - Natural resources associate professor Paul Chandler is the recipient of the 2000 C. Warren Vander Hill Award for Distinguished Teaching in Honors Education at Ball State University.

Honors College students nominate faculty for the award. A committee of honors students then visits the classrooms of nominees, conducts interviews and reviews nominees’ course evaluations before selecting the recipient.

"Dr. Chandler offers very individualized teaching," said Andrea Powell, an honors student from Union County, Ind., who chaired the selection committee. "He wants students to learn on their own, but he expects them to come to him if they need help. Plus, he really challenges his students’ beliefs about their area of study."

Chandler has taught in the department of natural resources and environmental management at Ball State since 1991. He earned a doctorate in forest resources from the University of Washington-Seattle in 1990 and a master of science degree in forest economics from North Carolina State University in 1975.

Chandler will be recognized in an April 6 Honors College luncheon.

(NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information, contact Nancy Prater by e-mail at nprater@bsu.edu or by phone at (765) 285-3220.)