The College of Science is proud to announce that UNT Physics professor Dr. Duncan Weathers has received the 2022 University Distinguished Teaching Professor Award. This award recognizes tenured faculty who perform outstanding teaching, teach at the introductory levels of their disciplines, promote the continuous development of teaching excellence, and promote improved teaching among their colleagues in the UNT community.

"Teaching, mentoring, advising and advocating for students, and watching them grow towards their full potential has been and will continue to be tremendously fulfilling for me," said Dr. Weathers. "So, to be recognized with this honor is reward upon reward, and I am deeply appreciative."

Duncan Weathers joined the Department of Physics faculty in 1991. He has taught many courses across the curriculum ranging from introductory conceptual physics to general relativity, and has always felt the same delight in teaching physics that a child does when sharing his favorite activity with a fresh audience. He especially enjoys connecting physical theory to observation for students, whether through lecture demonstrations or the advanced undergraduate experimental course or in his laboratory, where he and his students conduct research in the area of ion-solid interaction and its applications, and more recently plasma confinement. He has been the physics graduate advisor for nearly half of his UNT career, and has managed and mentored the department's graduate teaching fellows for two decades.