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Professor Mark Edwards, Ph.D. has been named a recipient of the Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair.聽聽The distinguished award recognizes professional accomplishment in classroom education.聽聽Edwards is the third Georgia Southern professor to receive the honor. 鈥淭his is a terrific honor for Mark Edwards and for 快猫app短视,鈥� said Georgia Southern President Brooks Keel, Ph.D. 鈥淣ot only is he an outstanding teacher, but a scholar and noted researcher.聽聽He is a great example of the outstanding faculty members that work at Georgia Southern. I would like to personally extend my congratulations to him on this terrific and well-deserved achievement.鈥� The honor will allow Edwards聽to initiate some new interdisciplinary research projects to expand his research portfolio.聽聽In addition, he plans to increase the involvement of both graduate and聽undergraduate聽students in his research.聽聽Ultimately, Edwards hopes to be able to use the results of the new projects to improve physics classroom instruction. 鈥淚t’s a great honor for me to be named the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Physics.聽 It has been very easy for me to excel at Georgia Southern because I have had the chance to work with great students, faculty and administrators during my 22 years here,鈥� said Edwards.聽聽鈥淚 hope to live up聽to this honor in the future and to do 快猫app短视 proud with my future work.” The Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Trust was established in 1968 by the Callaway Foundation, Inc. with the purpose of encouraging enrichment of the academic programs of senior colleges and聽聽graduate schools located in Georgia by providing funds for the establishment of professorial chairs in order to enable the institutions to retain and add superior faculty members.聽Following an official nomination by the University, each submission is reviewed by a four person Board that consists of the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, the president of the private senior college or university in Georgia with the largest undergraduate enrollment (Emory University), the executive director of the Atlanta University Center and the Georgia Market President of Bank of America, N.A. At Georgia Southern, Edwards not only serves as chair of the Physics Department, but he has taken a leadership role in fostering student learning and success.聽聽Edwards led the development of an innovative approach to teaching physics called Studio Physics.聽聽The unique course integrates separate lecture聽and laboratory classes into a seamless educational experience that is designed around active, inquiry-based learning.聽聽As a result of this integrated approach, Edwards and his colleagues have seen a significant increase in student success in this difficult subject area. Edwards is a past winner of Georgia Southern 鈥檚 Excellence in Service Award, the College of Science and Technology聽聽Excellence in Service Award, the Excellence in Research and/or Scholarly Activity award, a Georgia Southern University Foundation, Inc. Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.聽聽聽His research interests include聽high-field effects in pulsed-laser/atom interactions and Bose-Einstein condensation of trapped, neutral atoms.聽聽聽He is a recipient of numerous National Science Foundation (NSF) grants for projects ranging from 鈥淚nstrumentation for Studies of Optional Properties of Inert Gasses鈥� to 鈥淢odeling Quantam Logic Operations with Ultra-cold Atoms in Optical Lattices.鈥澛犅燞e has also served as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics degree from Georgia Southern College (now 快猫app短视), a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University.