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Published by The American Physiological Society Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism The Physiologist The People Who Tell the Story, Shape the Culture Robert W. Gore, University of Arizona, College of MedicineINSIDE 2005 Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year Award I am deeply honored to be selected the recipient of the 2005 Arthur C.APS Council Guyton Teacher of the Year Award. I Strategic Plan and accept this award with all the grace and Fall Council dignity that I can muster, and I accept it on behalf of all the people who have Meeting taught, influenced, scolded, nurtured, p. 6 and trained me over the years. It is, in a sense, their award. I want especially to acknowledge the APS Launches teachers who stimulated my personal commitment to teaching. I was shapedNew Professional by my experiences as an undergraduate Skills Training trained in the liberal arts at Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota,Program where I was exposed to excellent Full p. 9 Professors who were in the classroom every day. I also had the good fortune to have excellent mentors such as William FY 2006 Research J. Whalen, Charles Wunder, Henry B. Bull, G. Edgar Folk and Paul C.Funding Johnson, among others, during my Robert W. Gore p. 13 graduate and postdoctoral years. I also thank the people who nominated me, isms”—(which is the definition of and the Teaching Section of the Physiology). Conferees Delete American Physiological Society that I have many views and ideas about judged me worthy of this prestigiousAkaka Restrictions teaching that have evolved from person- award. al experiences at all levels in the class- p. 13 I hope that I can bring honor to The room over a period of nearly 44-years. I Guyton Award, in the name of teaching, first began teaching from the moment I in the same way that previous awardees entered graduate school in the Depart-EB 2006 have. I believe The Guyton Award is a ment of Physiology and Biophysics at symbol of how very important it is forTentative Program the University of Iowa in the Fall of all of us in this discipline to teach the 1961. Teaching was a requirement, notp. 16 physiological sciences to this, and an option, of the PhD program at Iowa future generations, with the same when I first entered there. Since then, I degree of commitment and energy that have taught grade school children, highIUPS 2006 we focus on our quest in the research school students, undergraduate and laboratory, to discover the mysteries ofReminiscences graduate students, postdoctoral stu- the “normal functions of organs and dents, physical therapists, physical edu-p. 41 organ systems within all living organ- (continued on page 3) Volume 49, No. 1 - February 2006 1www.the-aps.orgPublished bimonthly and distributed by The American Physiological SocietyThe Physiologist 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3991 ISSN 0031-9376 Douglas C. Eaton PresidentContents D. Neil Granger Past President Dale Benos President-Elect The People Who Tell the Story, Communications Martin Frank Editor and Executive Director Shape the Culture Symposium: Creating a Buzz Councillors Robert W. Gore 1 About Science Through Susan M. Barman, Irving G. Joshua,Community, Media and Carole M. 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Thus, to attempt to where all the stu- in this discipline to teach the physiolog- tell the whole story in this article would dents live, and so to take up far more space then the pages of be effective, one ical sciences to this, and future genera- ought to know howThe Physiologist will allow, and to do so would surely cause the readers to tear to speak their lan- tions, with the same degree of commit-the pages from this issue to use as fire- guage in cyber- starters on a cold February day. Hence, I space. will share with you in a general way ment and energy that we focus on our Connect Youronly a few of the elements of my rather simple teaching philosophy—ones that I Teaching and quest in the research laboratory.....” consider essential features of my teach- Your Learning ing style. In the process, I hope the My commitment in 1997 and, as a result, changed myreaders will be able to extract something to teaching is energized by a feeling of obligations to our medical program. Iexcitement when I am able to return toof value to carry forward in their own was skeptical at first, but as a senior fac-search for better ways to inspire and the classroom from the research labora- ulty member I was more prepared thantouch the minds and souls of their stu- tory to share my enthusiasm with any- our junior faculty to design and imple-dents. Haramati, the Guyton Awardee in one who will listen to my tales of the ment full semester courses, cardiovascu-2000, referred to “Lighting a Fire” with- results of a new observation, or previ- lar in my case. Also, I could help takeously unknown phenomenon seen in thein students (2), and Ordway, the some of the teaching load off theAwardee in 2003 extended the theme laboratory. I believe that sort of excite- younger faculty who needed to concen-and spoke of spreading “The Fire ment is