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Boston University recognizes Widmaier with teaching honor At Boston University's commencement, May 20, Massapequa native Eric P. Widmaier, received a Metcalf Award. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology and chairman of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for BU's main Charles River campus. "As Boston University's highest honor, the Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching symbolize our commitment to exemplary instruction and scholarship and serve as a means to express our gratitude to the professors recognized by this distinction," said BU President Robert Brown. Each Metcalf Award winner receives a prize of $5,000. Students, faculty and alumni nominate candidates for the Metcalf Cup and Prize, as well as the Metcalf Awards. The honors were established in 1973 by a gift from the late trustee chairman emeritus Arthur G.B. Metcalf. "First and foremost, an outstanding teacher is one who has a mastery of his or her subject material," said Professor Widmaier, author of two science trade books for the general public, Why Geese Don't Get Obese and The Stuff of Life, and lead author of the highest selling undergraduate physiology textbook in the world, Vander's Human Physiology". "My lectures tend to be brimming with confidence," he said, "and that attitude rubs off on the students."
Professor Widmaier, a native of Massapequa, was elected to the Massapequa High School Alumni Hall of Fame in 2001. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1988 and has since taught some 3,500 students, most of which were headed into careers in the life sciences, notably medicine, dentistry, and veterinary science. He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in biological sciences from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in endocrinology from the University of California at San Francisco.
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