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| Betty Winfield |
The University of Missouri System honored the winners of its top awards for teaching, research, and scholarly excellence at the Curators' dinner May 29, in conjunction with the Board's meeting at UM-Kansas City. The educators recognized are selected by a panel of UM System faculty from all four campuses.
Betty Winfield, professor of journalism at UM-Columbia, is the winner of the University of Missouri System's 1998 Thomas Jefferson Award.
Winfield is an internationally recognized expert on the relationship between U.S. presidents and the press. She is the author of The Edward R. Murrow Heritage, FDR and the News Media, and BLEEP! Censoring Rock 'n' Rap Music.
Winfield has taught at MU since 1990. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas, her master's degree from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
The award, which is funded through a grant from the Robert Earll McConnell Foundation, carries a $5,000 stipend and goes to a faculty member who "through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, character and influence, devotion and loyalty to the University best exemplifies the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson."
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