Fullerton : Biology Professor Wins Cal State Faculty Honor

Charles C. Lambert, a professor of biological science, is the 1986 winner of Cal State Fullerton’s Outstanding Professor Award.

Lambert received the award, which is the university’s highest faculty honor, last week. His selection was recommended to university president Jewel Plummer Cobb by the Academic Senate’s Outstanding Professor Selection Committee.

Faculty and students, in various statements, praised Lambert as being an exemplary teacher and scholar.

“He teaches not just the facts of biology, but biology as an intellectual process of discovery,” said Bruce H. Weber, a chemistry professor who has taught graduate seminars with Lambert.

“Because he is less concerned with formalities than with the vitality of the learning experience, his classes are typically involving and exciting,” graduate student Kip Kotzan said.

Lambert is an expert in the study of tunicates, marine organisms that include ascidians, which are ancestors of vertebrates, including man. In 1982, he was president of the 2,000-member Western Society of Naturalists. He presently is engaged in research supported by his fourth consecutive National Science Foundation grant since 1979.

A Navy veteran, Lambert and his wife Gretchen reside in Fullerton.