Chemistry Professor Dore Meinholtz Selected as GCCCU Celebration of Teaching Recipient

Student: 'Dore is an amazing professor, one of the best I’ve had' Dore Meinholtz, professor of chemistry, will represent Wilmington College as its 2015 Teaching Excellence Award winner at the Celebration of Teaching luncheon held Nov. 6 by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges & Universities at Xavier University’s Cintas Center. (PICTURED) Dore Meinholtz works with a pair of chemistry students in one of the soon-to-be renovated labs in the Center for the Sciences & Agriculture. Meinholtz, who grew up in Connecticut and Florida, joined the chemistry faculty in 1991 after earning her Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Stetson University. She conducted post-doctoral work at both Penn State and Ohio State universities. She is a past winner of the GCCCU Teaching Excellence Award and the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education’s (SOCHE) Faculty Excellence Award. Last spring, the Student Government Assn. selected her for its annual Outstanding Faculty Award. Comments from students range from, “Dore is engaging and entertaining” and “She has a great attitude” to “She is always available to help — we think she lives in Kettering!” Others wrote that Meinholtz has a “very well organized class” and “Dore is an amazing professor, one of the best I’ve had. She makes learning very enjoyable.” Meinholtz will be honored along with award recipients from the GCCCU’s 16 other member institutions. The GCCCU is an organization including all of the accredited colleges and universities in the greater Cincinnati area. This consortium relationship gives students access to course offerings of the other institutions through a cross-registration arrangement as well as access to library resources of the other schools in the consortium.