Posted on June 4: McMaster honours two professors
The title of University Professor is the highest honour McMaster can bestow on its faculty and the designation is awarded to professors who demonstrate exceptional achievement by distinction in research, scholarship and education such that the work has made a major impact on a given field of study, and/or the work has had a major impact across disciplinary boundaries.
This year, McMaster is proud to acknowledge William Coleman and John MacGregor.
The title of University Professor is awarded to full-time members of McMaster faculty whose contributions in research, scholarship and education are truly outstanding. The title is held for life and cannot be held by more than seven full-time faculty members at any time.
William Coleman, University Professor
A scholar and author of international standing, William Coleman holds the Canada Research Chair on Global Governance and Public Policy at McMaster. Coleman excels as both an instructor and a researcher. In 1996, he won the Konrad Adenauer Research Award. In 1997, he was awarded the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award and won an MSU Teaching Award in 2002. In 2001, his study on Globalization and Autonomy was awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
A professor in the Department of Political Science, Coleman teaches globalization, Canadian and Quebec politics and comparative public policy and conducts research on globalization and public policy.
He serves as director of McMaster's Theme School on Globalization, Social Change and the Human Experience and has served on numerous University committees including the University's Task Force on Educational Quality Assurance and President's Committee on Indigenous Studies.
In 2002, Coleman won McMaster's President's Award for Educational Leadership. He has also won the MSU Teaching Award (Overall).
In 1990, Coleman was co-winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize given for the best book in public policy and administration. He is an author of four books in his area of expertise.
John MacGregor, University Professor
John MacGregor has earned an outstanding scholarly reputation in the area of process and product quality monitoring, advanced process control, and polymer reaction engineering.
The professor of chemical engineering and holder of the Dofasco Chair in Automation Process was instrumental in the development of three major research centres at McMaster: the McMaster Institute for Polymer Production Technology, McMaster Advanced Control Consortium, and the Steel Research Centre. Business Week magazine cited him as one of the top five people in North America in the area of quality improvement.
MacGregor has pioneered several innovative research fields of engineering. His work has had a profound influence on the Canadian process systems engineering and chemical engineering communities, and internationally in the general area on product and process quality improvement.
A recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision, MacGregor's many other honours include the Century of Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, the W. G. Hunter Award for Quality Control, the Professional Engineers of Ontario Engineering Medal (Research and Development), the Bell Canada Forum Award. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Society.
