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By Carol Biliczky
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008
When Christine Crish was a student at Baldwin-Wallace College in 1996, her psychology professor donned a pair of gloves, sloshed around in a bucket and pulled out a human brain.
''Andy proceeds to talk about how this brain was once a person,'' she said. ''Andy made me realize that a simple brain in a bucket was not so simple at all . . . [but] the essence of who we are as humans.''
Crish was among the former students and fellow faculty members whose recommendations helped clinch the title of Ohio Professor of the Year for a Baldwin-Wallace professor, G. Andrew Mickley.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education selected Mickley, a 60-year-old Hudson resident, for his commitment to teaching undergraduates.
The national, 27-year-old program honored winners from 44 states, the District of Columbia and Guam at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. More than 300 faculty members at junior, baccalaureate, master's and doctoral institutions were nominated for the state awards and four national awards.
It is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
Mickley is head of the psychology department and director of the neuroscience program at the private, independent Baldwin-Wallace College in the Cleveland suburb of Berea.
''He is exactly what you hope a faculty member would be,'' said George Richard, director of college relations.
Mickley came to Baldwin-Wallace in 1993 after a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
He has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Gettysburg College and master's and doctoral degrees in physiological psychology from the University of Virginia.
His research interests include learning and memory, brain plasticity and recovery from brain damage — hence his eagerness to generate interest in his students.
Crish said Mickley left an indelible impression on her in that first undergraduate psychology course when he pulled the brain from the bucket.
''Andy inspired me to study the amazing brain that, as Andy says, is the only organ that studies itself,'' said Crish, who is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University Medical Center.
This is the first time a state winner has come from Baldwin-Wallace.
The last time an Akron-area faculty member received the state award was in 2005. W.A. Hayden Schilling, an English professor at the College of Wooster, also received the national award in the baccalaureate college division, one of four the program recognizes.
Carol Biliczky can be reached at 330-996-3729 or cbiliczky@thebeaconjournal.com.
When Christine Crish was a student at Baldwin-Wallace College in 1996, her psychology professor donned a pair of gloves, sloshed around in a bucket and pulled out a human brain.
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