April 11, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: April 11, 2003 MIDDLEBURY,

Vt.—Middlebury College has named Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea

Lloyd the recipient of the 2003 Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The award honors outstanding teaching performance in science and mathematics.

At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, an award ceremony will be held in Room

219 of Bicentennial Hall on Bicentennial Way off College Street (Route 125).

The annual award is given to a member of Middlebury College’s natural

sciences division, alternating each year between a faculty member in the

mathematics and computer science department and a faculty member in one

of the other four departments in this division—biology, chemistry,

geology and physics.

Lloyd earned a bachelor’s degree in geography from Dartmouth College

in 1989 and a master’s degree in biology and wildlife from the University

of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1993. Three years later she received her doctorate

in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona. A

member of the Middlebury College faculty since 1996, Lloyd teaches several

courses, including “Introductory Ecology” and “Plant

Ecology.”

Her current research focuses on the response of the Alaskan boreal forest

to climate change. Lloyd’s findings have appeared in a number of

publications, including the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres,

Climatic Change and the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. The winner

of several awards, she has also received grants from such organizations

as the National Science Foundation.

The Professor Llewellyn R. Perkins and Dr. Ruth M.H. Perkins Memorial

Faculty Research Fund, which provides the award, was made possible by

the gift of Dr. Ruth M.H. Perkins, a 1932 Middlebury graduate, in memory

of her husband, Professor Llewellyn R. Perkins. Professor Perkins taught

at Middlebury College from 1914 until his retirement in 1941. During the

course of his tenure at Middlebury, he founded and chaired the mathematics

department. Their children, Marion Perkins Harris, a 1957 Middlebury graduate

and science teacher, and Dr. David L. Perkins, a physician, augmented

the fund and expanded the scope of the award to honor their mother, Ruth,

as well. She was a Vermont State helping teacher and a professor of math

education at Temple University in Philadelphia.