Valerie Kish
Professor of Biology
1976-1993
Valerie Kish was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Scholarship Award at Hobart and William Smith in 1982. Kish was named an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society in 1998. She has most recently been awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant as project director.
"[Kish has] been credited as having made the college experience' for [her] students with her balance of scientific expertise and kind-hearted mentoring," says Jared Weeden '91, director of Alumni Relations.
DFA RECIPIENTS
2019
2018
2017
Maureen Flynn P'09, P'12, P'16*
2016
Ann B. Oaks '74, P'84, P'85, P'89
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Joseph N. Abraham, L.H.D. '81*
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
Eugene F. Murphy P'74, L.H.D. '90*
2001
Kenneth Carle P'82, P'84, P'90
2000
Benjamin P. Atkinson, L.H.D. '86*
Lindsay A. J. Lafford P'65, P'71, L.H.D. '87*
1999
1998
Theodore Tellefsen Odell '20, Sc. D.'67*
1997
Charles Delamater Vail '59, L.H.D.'04*
Joseph H. McDaniels, LL.D. '11*
1996
1995
1993
William Pitt Durfee, LL.D. '22*
Walter Hetherington Durfee '08, Sc.D. '59*
1992
Edward E. Griffith, L.H.D. '88*
1991
Milton Haight Turk, LL.D. '38*
Kathryn Dapp Cook, L.H.D. '84*
1990
Hamilton Lanphere Smith, D.Sc. 1900*
* deceased
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