NSB Spring 2013 - University of Nevada, Reno

Hyung K. Shin Graduate Scholarship Endowment
Department of Chemistry Professor Hyung K. Shin established this endowment to benefit students pursuing advanced degrees in chemistry. Shin joined
the University in 1965 and was chemistry department chair from 1976-80 and 1991-95. His honors include the University’s first Outstanding Researcher
of the Year Award in 1975, Foundation Professor in 1984, the University Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003, and the Alan Bible Excellence in Teaching
Award in 1986 and 2000.
Shires-Barber Endowment for Surgery Research
The faculty of the Department of Surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine established this endowment to support research among
residents and medical students. The endowment is named for the late George T. Shires, M.D., an acclaimed surgeon and School of Medicine professor,
and Annabel Barber, M.D., associate professor of surgery.
Wayne D. Trewhitt Scholarship Endowment in Civil Engineering
Memorial gifts in honor of late Nevada alumnus Wayne D. Trewhitt ’62 (civil engineering) benefit undergraduate students in their junior or senior year
who are pursuing a degree from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Trewhitt was known as a leader in the waste management
industry, holding many prominent positions since 1963.
Jessie A. Turner Memorial Scholarship Endowment
New Foundation Endowments
The family of late Reynolds School of Journalism alumna Jessie Turner ’05 (journalism) has established this memorial scholarship endowment to benefit
journalism students with an emphasis on strategic communications. She passed away in October 2011 following a long battle with brain and spinal cancer.
Memorial endowment
established in memory of
longtime medicine faculty
David Lupan
The family of the late David Lupan, M.D., senior associate dean for
basic science and research at the University of Nevada School of Medicine,
has established an endowment in his memory to support medical
and graduate student research at the School of Medicine.
The David M. Lupan School of Medicine Student Research Endowment
is funded through memorial gifts from family, friends and colleagues
to honor Lupan’s strong advocacy for expanded student research
opportunities. Lupan, 66, passed away June 23, 2012, following a 15-
week battle with non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma. He was a member of
the School of Medicine faculty for nearly 40 years.
Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D., dean of the medical school, said that early
after his arrival in 2011, he learned to trust Lupan’s wisdom and judgment
on a number of complex issues.
“His background knowledge about many complex problems was
astonishing,” Schwenk says. “History is an important place to start in
understanding the complexities of the medical school, and Dr. Lupan
was an authoritative source for both the critical and the mundane
aspects of such history.”
Although Dr. Lupan was a noted researcher and a capable administrator,
he loved working with students above all else. He taught microbiology
to every University of Nevada School of Medicine class since 1973.
Microbiologist Thomas Kozel, Ph.D., remembered his colleague as
David Lupan, M.D., senior associate dean for basic science and research
at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, passed away in June
following a brief battle with lymphoma. His family has established an
endowment at the School of Medicine to support medical and graduate
student research.
having uncommon wisdom and grace when dealing with his administrative
duties. Kozel said Lupan’s students cited their professor as being
“utterly cool,” giving him “two thumbs up” and praising his ability to
relate the course material instead of “feeding” it to them.
—Roseann Keegan
To learn more about supporting the School of Medicine, please contact Christina Sarman ’00, ’11M.A., director of development, (775) 784-6009 or csarman@unr.edu.
Photo courtesy of School of Medicine
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