My receiving this award is due to the efforts of many. His department chair has also asked Sutherland to mentor three new ME-EM faculty members. It's appropriate for a full professor to serve as a mentor, but the fact that he's doing it for several shows the trust I have in him and his ability to be successful. His efforts have borne fruits already. Sutherland has a reputation for being affable, gregarious, and a near-workaholic.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
Martin Jurgensen Jurgensen joined the faculty of the School of Forestry and Wood Products in 1970, and a lot students have taken his classes during the past thirty years. For many of them, he stands out among the finest, if not the finest, university teacher they've ever known. Among them is Interim Dean Glenn Mroz. He was one of the major reasons I went into forestry and then soil science. Because of him, I defected from mechanical engineering.