MAS RECOGNIZES BASE PAIR "CHAMPION"

Dr. Rob Rockhold, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, is one of a select few scientists to receive the Dudley Peeler Award from the Mississippi Academy of Sciences (MAS). The award is named for a professor emeritus of neurosurgery at the Medical Center.

Rockhold was recognized at the academy’s annual meeting at the Hunter Henry Center and Bost Extension Center at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

“I’m deeply honored and tremendously surprised to have received this award,” Rockhold said.

The MAS is an organization of scientists, engineers, technicians, science educators, and others from schools and universities, government, industry, and business who support science in Mississippi. 

Rockhold has held numerous offices within the academy, including program chairman, member of the Board of Directors, and president. He said the Peeler award, which recognizes lifetime achievement, is “very much intertwined” with his leadership of the Base Pair program.

“From the very start of Base Pair, we looked for ways to encourage the high school students and teachers in the professional scientific community,” he said. “Beginning with that very first class, we began to use the annual meeting of the academy as an example of what a professional scientist engages in.”

—Bruce Coleman (7-9-07)

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