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STATESBORO, Ga. 鈥� Dec. 4, 2013 鈥� Georgia Southern professors Delena Bell Gatch, Ph.D., and Misty Loughry, Ph.D., are among only five University System of Georgia faculty members selected to receive the System鈥檚 most prestigious teaching awards named in honor of the late Regent Felton Jenkins Jr. The award is given in two categories, the Regents鈥� Teaching Excellence Awards and the Regents鈥� Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Awards.

Gatch, a physics professor in the College of Science and Mathematics won the 2014 Regents鈥� Teaching Excellence Award for faculty in regional and state universities. Loughry, a professor of management in the College of Business Administration, is the only winner of the 2014 Regents鈥� Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), which the University System of Georgia (USG) typically awards to two faculty members each year. Dr. Gatch is an alumna having graduated from Georgia Southern in 1995. She began teaching here in 2001, after earning her doctoral degree in physics from the University of Georgia. The USG letter announcing the professor鈥檚 selection noted the review committee鈥檚 vote was unanimous and it cited her 鈥渁bility to gather data and adjust her teaching methods from a traditional teaching style to one that involved active learning.鈥� Professor Loughry has been at the University since 2007, and her selection as the sole winner was unanimous by the review committee. She was selected as a result of her work in helping first-generation college students succeed. Loughry鈥檚 research interests include using management research to enhance college teaching and student learning, team-member effectiveness, peer evaluation of teamwork, and controls in organizations, particularly peer control. 鈥淚 am honored to receive the Regents鈥� SoTL Award and happy for Dr. Delena Gatch, also from 妻友社区, who won the Regents鈥� Teaching Excellence Award,鈥� Loughry said. 鈥淢y colleagues and I have been working for more than a decade to develop web-based tools to support teamwork in higher education classes. 聽Information about the tools and the research on which they are based is posted on . I am grateful to the Board of Regents for offering the Regents鈥� SoTL award to recognize research that contributes to teaching and learning.鈥�

聽Both Georgia Southern winners will be recognized during the USG Foundation鈥檚 annual 鈥淩egents鈥� Salute to Education鈥� awards gala on March 22, 2014 at the World of Coke in Atlanta.

妻友社区, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 125 degree programs serving more than 20,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor鈥檚, master鈥檚 and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. 聽Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit:聽.