The University of Alabama

2005 Professor of the Year - Dr. Guy Caldwell
Dr. Guy Caldwell in the lab with his wife and research partner Dr. Kim Caldwell.

The University of Alabama is proud to be home to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2005 Alabama Professor of the Year, Dr. Guy Caldwell.

A place nicknamed “The Worm Shack” seems an unlikely venue to find the honoree, but that’s where you can often locate Caldwell. So dubbed by students in reference to the tens of thousands of microscopic worms which occupy Caldwell’s laboratory, “The Worm Shack” has drawn funding from some of the world’s most recognizable research organizations. But research is only half the professorial equation. It’s teaching, Caldwell says, that gives him his greatest joy.    MORE...