Two faculty members have won teaching awards from their schools. Svein U. Toverud, professor of oral diagnosis in the School of Dentistry, won the Richard F. Hunt Excellence in Predoctoral Teaching Award, and Melissa Lamb Saunders, associate professor in the School of Law, was awarded the annual Frederick B. McCall Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The dental school's most prestigious award, established through the Dental Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., is given each year to an outstanding educator who exhibits a command of the subject matter, an interest in students as individuals and an understanding of dentistry. Toverud also is professor of pharmacology at the School of Medicine.
Saunders--who specializes in constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, civil rights and election law--was elected by third-year law students as the professor who had the most positive impact on them during their law school career.
She clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and later for William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After working in private practice, she joined the law school faculty on a full-time basis in 1994.
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