WSU Honors College Welcomes Carol Anelli as its Associate Dean
PULLMAN, Wash.—Entomologist, award-winning teacher, and long-time Honors College faculty member and administrator Carol Anelli has been named to the position of associate dean of Honors, Washington State University has announced. She served as interim associate dean for the past year.
“I am thrilled that Professor Anelli has agreed to serve in this key role for Honors,” says Libby Walker, dean of the college. “Her unparalleled expertise in both undergraduate instruction and curriculum assessment makes her the perfect candidate to support the college’s efforts to take Honors to the ‘next level.’ The fact that she has developed and taught a variety of Honors courses over the past decade means that she has a very thorough understanding of the mission and goals of our unit.”
Anelli has been associated with the Honors College since 1998. Most recently, in addition to serving as associate dean, she was the thesis director and oversaw efforts relating to students’ thesis requirement, from developing a course that “demystifies the process,” she says, to reviewing proposals, overseeing the process, and reviewing completed projects. This year, she is also teaching that course as well as UH 290 (Science as a Way of Knowing).
“I am very honored that Libby wants me on the Honors College team, and that the administration trusts in me to serve this very important segment of the WSU experience for undergraduates,” Anelli says. “I welcome this opportunity.”
Anelli earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her bachelor’s in biology at Southern Connecticut State University. Before joining WSU she conducted postdoctoral research at the USDA and National Institutes of Health. She joined WSU in 1996, became an assistant professor of entomology in 1998 and an associate professor in 2004.
She was recognized for her teaching numerous times in graduate school and received regional and national teaching awards in her field of entomology. She recently won the Anna Sue McNeill Assessment, Teaching, & Learning Award in the Pacific Northwest region.
At WSU, she gave the keynote address at Convocation in 2009, received the Faculty Library Excellence Award in 2010, the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction in 2009 (WSU’s highest individual teaching recognition), the Honors Faculty Award in 2002, and the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award in 1999.
In addition to continuing her work with the Honors thesis program, Anelli will teach Honors courses, contribute to scheduling courses, and be involved in program assessment activities.
She plans to also continue with her research into teaching and pedagogy, and the history of entomological and evolutionary thought.
CONTACT: Beverly Makhani, Communications Director, WSU Honors College, 509-335-6679, Makhani@wsu.edu
Carol Anelli, Associate Dean, WSU Honors College, 509-335-4505, carol_anelli@wsu.edu
Libby Walker, Dean, WSU Honors College, 509-335-4505, walkerl@wsu.edu