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The University of Missouri honored four faculty members for excellence at an awards ceremony May 4 at UM-St. Louis.
University committees select the winners of awards for outstanding teaching, and research and creativity. Nominations for the Ratchford Award are evaluated by a panel that includes representatives from each campus, off-campus faculty and Missouri citizens. A subcommittee of the University of Missouri Press selects the winner of the Curators’ Award for Scholarly Excellence.
Lloyd M. Wells (1919-2000) was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Wells was posthumously honored for From Anzio to the Alps: An American Soldier’s Story. The book is his firsthand account of World War II, based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and on personal records and recollections of people and events.
Wells was drafted into the U.S. Army in June 1941 and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy and Germany, and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
Wells also co-authored The Supreme Court and Public Opinion.
Dr. Randall S. Prather, distinguished professor of reproductive biotechnology at UM-Columbia, earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Kansas State University, a master’s degree in animal science and industry from Kansas State University and a doctorate in endocrinology-reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prather is considered one of the world’s leading experts in nuclear transfer in pigs. He has been working in this area for more than 15 years with outstanding success, producing applications for medicine and agriculture. He was one of the first to clone pigs from somatic cells and has generated transgenic pigs that could be used for transplantation.
He serves as an associate leader for the Food for the 21st Century Reproductive Biology Cluster and as co-director of the National Swine Research and Resource Center at UM-Columbia.
Dr. Meera Chandrasekhar is a curators’ teaching professor of physics at UM-Columbia. She received a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Mysore University, a master’s degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a master’s and a doctorate, both in physics, from Brown University.
Chandrasekhar has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and served as a graduate advisor.
She has led the development of four programs, including the Newton Summer Academy, that offer opportunities for students to experience the physical sciences through hands-on experiments. Chandrasekhar also works with Missouri science teachers to provide professional development during a summer institute.
She was the recipient of a Science Teachers of Missouri Distinguished Service Award; a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Mentoring; and a Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, among other honors.
Don Day serves as a natural resource engineering specialist, central Missouri region, for University of Missouri Extension. He received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, both in agriculture, from UM-Columbia.
Day began his Extension career as a farm management specialist in Bates County and later in Osage County. He is a leader in the use of technology in educational programs, partnering with his colleagues on the Columbia campus and in the community to develop the Columbia Online Information Network, one of the first community-based information networks in the nation.
He also actively partners with others to deliver the Master Gardener program, which brings gardening expertise to juvenile justice facilities, prisons and community centers.
In addition, Day coordinates the Master Naturalist program, a cooperative effort between the Missouri Department of Conservation and Extension that works to create a better understanding of the role of natural resources in our lives.
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