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, University of Kentucky,
Professor of Biological Sciences and Science
Outreach Professor of the Appalachian Math
Science Partnership (AMSP), was awarded the
2007 Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year
Award.
In addition to his research on the neural
control of renal sodium and water balance and
the role of renal sympathetic control mechanisms
in genetic models of hypertension, Dr. Osborn is
Principal Investigator on a National Science
Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly $2 million to
evaluate the science skills of more than 10,000
seventh and eighth grade Appalachian students. |
The Guyton Award is given to an American Physiological Society member
who is a full-time faculty member of an
accredited college or university and involved in
classroom teaching and not exclusively the
teaching of graduate students in a research
laboratory. Jeff Osborn receives $1,000 and
expenses to attend the Experimental Biology
meeting.
Excerpted from The American Physiological Society Teaching of Physiology Section Newsletter, Spring 2007
