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"Office hours" are an elastic concept for Michigan Tech's 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award winners. "His office is always open," says physics department chair Ravi Pandey of Will Cantrell, associate professor of physics, who received the award in the professor/associate professor category. "I've seen him here on Saturday and Sunday working with students."
Cantrell came to Michigan Tech in 2001, after serving as a postdoc in chemistry at Indiana University and completing his PhD at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Pandey called Cantrell "a superlative model of the scholar-teacher." READ MORE
 Graduating Before Commencement and Dedication to Duty
On the Wednesday before obtaining my Bachelor's Degree, I left Houghton at 05:00 with 16 other Mind Trekkers for DC (story here). On Saturday, I woke up, donned my Mind Trekkers jersey, and went to the event. I noted that Bill Nye would be signing things starting at 11am, so around then I put on my cap and gown, grabbed my diploma cover, and John Lehman (assistant VP, enrollment services) and myself headed over there. READ MORE
Ed Leonard, Class of 2012, From the Email Bag, TechAlum Newsletter, May 8, 2012
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Cantrell Receives Distinguished Teaching Award