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Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill, CRGE DirectorDr. Amy McLaughlin, CRGE Assistant DirectorDr. Tomni Dance, QRIG Co-Director
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April 19, 2007   301-405-5223

CRGE Founding Director
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Recognized as Outstanding Mentor

COLLEGE PARK, MD—The University Board of Regents presented the 2006–2007 Regents’ Faculty Award to Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill at its award ceremony April 13 in the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons.

Established in 1995, the Faculty Awards are the highest honors presented to University System of Maryland faculty by the Board of Regents, and they honor faculty who have garnered professional accomplishments in the areas of research, scholarship, creative activity, teaching, public service, mentoring, and collaboration.

Dr. Dill was one of seventeen honorees, and one of five faculty from the University of Maryland, College Park.

“Dr. Dill’s mentoring extends far beyond the Department of Women’s Studies.  Many have experienced her kindness, especially her graduate students,” states Dr. Claire Moses, professor of Women’s Studies. “Through the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity—and, of course, students from other departments who have taken her Women’s Studies courses—she has mentored students from just about every department in which we have affiliate faculty, and then some.” Dr. Moses went on to declare, “Bonnie is a campus-wide treasure!”

Dr. Dill founded CRGE in 1998, and served as its director until 2006. While remaining at CRGE as Founding Director, she serves as professor and chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland and holds the position of Vice President of the American Sociological Association. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1979 from New York University and has been actively involved in the greater Sociology and Women’s Studies communities for decades.

CRGE is a nationally prominent research organization that promotes scholarship as well as faculty and graduate student development across the University of Maryland campus. CRGE’s interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference as they shape identities, behavior and complex social relations.

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