FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 7, 2005
Contact: Joshua Hollis
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Roth named MUW Faculty Member of the Year
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. James D. Roth, assistant professor of psychology, was awarded the title of Faculty Member of the Year for 2005 by the MUW Alumnae Association and the MUW Mortar Board Honor Society during the recent Mag Chain Ceremony.
   
While Roth, who has taught at MUW for 5 years, was honored to receive the award, winning it wasn’t the most important thing.
   
“I was happy just to be nominated. The other finalists (Dr. Brian Anderson, associate professor of political science, and Dr. Marty Harvill, associate professor of science and math) were definitely as deserving – if not more deserving – than I was…any of us could have won.”
   
Patsy McDaniel, director of alumni relations, said of Roth’s achievement, “I think he was a wonderful choice. He is very well respected by his students and colleagues.”
   
Both faculty and students were allowed to vote for Faculty Member of the Year, something that Roth admires. Many schools, said Roth, allow either faculty or students to vote, but not both.
   
One of the most gratifying things to Roth is “the fact that I was nominated by my colleagues [as well as] the students I teach.”      
   
“I was really happy – thrilled – that I was recognized.”
   
Roth is the 23rd MUW faculty member to receive the title of Faculty Member of the Year.